Cleaning me up is just a preliminary step to determining my new look. With my acid-damaged hair, sunburned skin, and ugly scars, the prep team has to make me pretty and then damage, burn, and scare me in a more attractive way. - Suzanne Collins It was my friend Frank, a writer in San Francisco, who finally set me straight. When asked about my new look he put down his fork and stared at me for a few moments. A bow tie announces to the world you can no longer get an erection. - David Sedaris

I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself. - Mark Twain Unconsciously he defines for me the lines of a fresh new school, a school that is to have in it all the passion of the romantic spirit, all the perfection of the spirit that is Greek. The harmony of soul and body - how much that is! We in our madness have separated the two, and have invented a realism that is vulgar, an ideality that is void. Harry! If only you knew what Dorian Gray is to me! - Oscar Wilde He supposed he was fascinated by that commonplace sense of history that anyone can feel glancing through the fresh news of ten or twenty years ago. - Stephen King Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in. - Anthony Kiedis No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We've got too many dexterous drudges as it is. - Jan Neruda Maybe you've invested a lot of time...

It was February sixth: eight days until Valentine's Day. I was dateless, as usual, deep in the vice grip of unrequited love. It was bad enough not having a boyfriend for New Year's Eve. Now I had to cope with Valentine datelessness, feeling consummate social pressure from every retailer in America who stuck hearts and cupids in their windows by January second to rub it in. (Thwonk) - Joan Bauer It was bad enough not having a boyfriend for New Year's Eve. Now I had to cope with Valentine datelessness, feeling consummate social pressure from every retailer in America who stuck hearts and cupids on their windows by January second to rub it in. (Thwonk) - Joan Bauer New Year's was insane! It was the best show I've ever played for New Year's. - Les Claypool

If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspective. You've got to have some north star you're aiming for, and you just believe somehow you'll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point. - Steve Case And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other writers. - Tobias Wolff Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull. - Ninette De Valois

It's fun doing new things. - Rick Baker So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to have something to do with the exploration and doing new things. - Duane G Carey Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. - Walt Disney Company We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. - Walt Disney Company We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. - Walt Disney I love going out and doing new things. - Bo Jackson The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done. - J...

I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind. - Brian Eno Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new. - Donald Judd I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there's no expectations, it's encouragement to be different, do something new. - Bill Kreutzmann My Food Network shows, 'Emeril Live' and 'Essence of Emeril,' are not in production right now, but I wouldn't say that I'm necessarily leaving Food Network. I have a lot of television still in me. I enjoy teaching people, so it's just a matter of time before I do something new. - Emeril Lagasse Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and ...

Alec looked down at the shattered pieces in disbelief. "You BROKE my PHONE." Jace shrugged. "Guys don't let other guys keep calling other guys. Okay, that came out wrong. Friends don't let friends keep calling their exes and hanging up. Seriously. You have to stop." Alec looked furious. "So you broke my brand new phone? Thanks a lot." Jace smiled serenely and lay back on the grass. "You're welcome. - Cassandra Clare I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new. - Rick Allen When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me. - Marc Andreessen No, if it was up to me every record would be brand new studio material but Atlantic records asked me to put out a full live record because my tour really did do well last year. - Sebastian Bach So, it ended up being what you have there, seven songs brand new and t...

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. - Oprah Winfrey All I wanted for Christmas was a New Years Eve party that I would never forget. Too bad I got too drunk to remember it. - Carroll Bryant Each year is a new year. - Tim Buckley So I started shoveling Bob's driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party - Stephen Chbosky The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. - Gilbert K Chesterton I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am runni...

I've come down in the world. I've slid to a place where the ceiling is low and there isn't much room for me to move.Most of the time I'm good. I accepted my sentence and do not brood or look back. But sometimes a shift makes me remember. Routine is ruffled and a new start makes me suddenly conscious of what I've become - - Leila Aboulela Putting out my album on my own label has been a great experience for me. It's been very inspiring. It's like a new start for me and having all this creative freedom is so liberating and exciting. - Melanie Chisholm It would be best if this obscure chapter in the history of the world were terminated at once, if these ugly people were obliterated from the face of the earth and we swore to make a new start, to run an empire in which there would be no more injustice, no more pain. - J M Coetzee I wanted to wash away our past misgivings in those tears that would run from our eyes and weave a new start by folding her in my arm...

The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose. - Arnold Bennett As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan. - Hamid Karzai I'm turning over a new leaf." He chuckled. The tip of his finger caught her under her chin, and it was enough to still all her movements. "Tell you what. If you need help with that, if you need someone to shut you up, or even if you just need to walk on the wild side every now and then... I'm your guy. - Cherrie Lynn Any chance he's turned a new leaf and taken up sailing for real?" "About as likely as me doing it." Hadrian eyed Royce for a heartbeat. "I put him at the top of the list. - Michael J Sullivan I turn over a new leaf eve...

This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history. - John Barth I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind. - Jennifer Capriati I can close the book on this part of our history. I can start a new chapter, but it doesn't matter. because now, the magic is everywhere. - James Patterson Nora, I believe life's like a good book. Time makes up the pages that will be your story. Every time your life changes, you start a new chapter. To me, there's nothing more depressing than someone getting to the end of their days and realizing they've only written one long, boring passage. - Elizabeth Isaacs The reform process began with the historic consensus on the Charter of National Action, in which the Bahraini people decided on a new chapter of their history. - Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved. - Jude Morgan I believe it is time for me to begin a new chapter in my li...