Bobos Quotes & Sayings

Bobos are uncomfortable with universal moral laws that purport to regulate pleasure. Bobos prefer more prosaic self-controlled regimes. The things that are forbidden are unhealthy or unsafe. The things that are encouraged are enriching or calorie burning. In other words, we regulate our carnal desires with health codes instead of moral codes. — David Brooks

'Shrek 2' made over $120 million during its first week. In a related story, John Kerry asked Shrek to marry him. — Conan O'Brien

In the end, every hypochondriac is his own prophet. — Robert Lowell

Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it. — Charles Dickens

I don't understand it when people get cross about how one of their works was adapted and say, 'Oh, they ruined it!' Well, the book is still there. — Susan Hill

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman. — Andre Malraux

... where the two cities are close up they make for interference patterns, harder to read or predict. They are more than a city and a city; that is elementary urban arithmetic. — China Mieville

I feel lucky that I'm working at all. I don't take any job for granted. I enjoy this. It's all enjoyable for me. It's all part of it. — Jon Lovitz

I'm the reason why I'm overweight. No one made me do it. I did it. — Neil Cavuto

The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary. — Alfred Kreymborg

For society, marriage is undoubtedly beneficial. But the burdens of civilized morality are too heavy for many to bear. — Jed Rubenfeld