Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of ‘Star Wars.’ – Brian K. Vaughan
Romanians are culturally European, very close to the French. Socially, they are now building a society that is emotionally closer to the Balkans, Turkey and Greece. – Andrei Codrescu
When I wrote my first blog, I got one response. Now, I sometimes get as many as 400 responses for my posts. – Amitabh Bachchan
We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism. – Constance Baker Motley
I haven’t seen kids in years who have holes in the knees of their jeans. Now you go buy jeans with holes in them. – Ashton Eaton
The CIA now assesses that four nations – Iraq, North Korea, Russia and, to the surprise of some specialists, France – have undeclared samples of the smallpox virus. – Barton Gellman
Historically, when Americans don’t know what to do next, they go to Paris. Benjamin Franklin is like: ‘What am I going to do now? I’ll go to Paris!’ – Craig Ferguson
In many regions, war and terror prevail. States disintegrate. For many years, we have read about this. We have heard about it. We have seen it on TV. But we had not yet sufficiently understood that what happens in Aleppo and Mosul can affect Essen or Stuttgart. We have to face that now. – Angela Merkel
Now, when we say we want peace, what we want is really for our Palestinian neighbours to have a demilitarized state next to us that recognizes the Jewish State. We’re willing to recognize their state, the Palestinian state. But we ask them to recognize the Jewish state. – Benjamin Netanyahu
My assistant says I’m an eBay auction waiting to happen. I have a very large collection of T-shirts… about 4,000 now. Maybe I’ll pillage it someday. I have resisted the offers to do a line of T-shirts. – Bruce Vilanch
The Federal Reserve has never suffered any losses in the course of its normal lending to banks and, now, to primary dealers. – Ben Bernanke
The pharma industry is one of the few industries that comes up every year and brags about how much worse they got – like, now it costs $2 billion to make a drug, and it was a billion 5 years ago. – Anne Wojcicki
We’re plugged in 24 hours a day now. We’re all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless. – Alan Lightman
Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are. – Bruce Jackson
You see the names of places roundabout? They’re mine now, and I’ve turned them inside out. – Andrew Motion
I am as hungry now as I was when I began in the sport. If anything, I am probably a bit hungrier. It is because I know there are fewer tomorrows than yesterdays. – Allen Johnson
As somebody who’s been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it’s astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years. – Anthony Holden
