Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now.
Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
When a bank calls in a loan, it obviously hurts the customer in question. But it also adversely affects other banks that have lent to this borrower. They are now less likely to be repaid and so can't as readily lend to their own customers.
I literally worked from the bottom up to where I am now.
The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.
I haven't had sex in eight months. To be honest, I now prefer to go bowling.
As is now painfully obvious from my Twitter ban, boycotts tend to make the shunned more popular.
I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now.
Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.
I was in a movie with Marlon Brando. Now, I didn't have any scenes with Marlon Brando, but I had scenes with Martin Sheen and was around Dennis Hopper, who was a child actor in the studio system and was enamored of James Dean, as was Martin, and they were all sort of disciples of Brando.
We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.
Right now, I'm very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course.
Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.
I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.
Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.
I am now a commander of the British Empire.
What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances.
