Bright New World Quotes

#1. I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.

Ayad Akhtar

#2. Why do you love it? I had a sense that I would enjoy her answer. I knew it would be unexpected and unique. Everything about her was unexpected and unique. She was my bright light of eccentricity in a very predictable and ordinary world. She made everything new and interesting or funny.

Penny Reid

#3. When you tolerate mediocrity, you get more of it.

Frank Sonnenberg

#4. Between children and parents, there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.

Susan Minot

#5. You can change a person in their exterior aspects, but the soul remains, it still is there, and especially if that person has been changed involuntarily.

Antonio Banderas

#6. It's the final word in camouflage. Forget chucking weights around. Peeta should have gone into his private session with the Gamemakers and painted himself into a tree. Or a boulder. Or a muddy bank full of weeds.

Suzanne Collins

#7. The World's New Age hath dawned. The sun is bright in heaven, for Balder hath returned. Earth rises a second time, from the deep sea; it rises clad with green verdure. The sound of falling waters fills the morning air. High soars the eagle; from the mountain ridge he espies the fish. . . .

Donald A. Mackenzie

#8. If anyone's depressed for any reason, whether a relationship has fallen apart or they're having money problems, wearing feathered wings and a tutu takes you into a whole other world. A whole new woooooorld, a world of bright and shining stars!

Richard Simmons

#9. Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .

Dan Miller

#10. The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#11. The closer I get to God, the blacker the little sins appear

Fraser Young

#12. Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always legislated some form of realism.

Russell Smith

#13. Navigating this new world made Sunny feel like Dorothy stepping out from her black-and-white house into a world of color so bright it didn't seem real. Everything in this world seems like a dream.

Megan Hart

#14. Too many of our preferences reflect nasty behaviours and states of mind that were genetically adaptive in the ancestral environment. Instead, wouldn't it be better if we rewrote our own corrupt code?

David Pearce