Brendan Gill Quotes (13 Quotes)

Express doesn't necessarily mean faster. It just means direct -- direct to the bridge.

If the unexamined life is not worth living, the unexamined past is not worth possessing it bears fruit only by being held continuously up to the light, and is as changeable and as full of surprises, pleasant and unpleasant, as the future

We're working closely with Kearny OEM Office of Emergency Management to put a more codified operating plan in place.

There's a lot of communication going on and that's why we're having a face-to-face meeting. We're not worried but we won't be satisfied until we have the (funding plan) approved.

If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.

The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning.

The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well it appears that much of my life as a journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers.

I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.

It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

We don't think there's any problem from an engineering perspective or a structural perspective. The bridge is safe.

It depends on what they find. Basically, they're replacing lighting devices, doing some troubleshooting and eliminating any trouble with the current lighting.

Parody is homage gone sour.