A in Classic Quotes

1  The light was frozen, dead, a ghost.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

2  'Just to give you a general idea,' he would explain to them.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

3  Ninety-six seemed to be the limit; seventy-two a good average.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

4  But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

5  concluded, 'bokanovskification consists of a series of arrests of development.'

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

6  The whole of a small factory staffed with the products of a single bokanovskified egg.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

7  The overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

8  Each of them carried a note-book, in which, whenever the great man spoke, he desperately scribbled.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

9  for Central London always made a point of personally conducting his new students round the various departments.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

10  On a very slowly moving band a rack-full of test-tubes was entering a large metal box, another rack-full was emerging.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

11  To-morrow,' he would add, smiling at them with a slightly menacing geniality, 'you'll be settling down to serious work.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

12  He had a long chin and big, rather prominent teeth, just covered, when he was not talking, by his full, floridly curved lips.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

13  From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

14  By which time the original egg was in a fair way to becoming anything from eight to ninety-six embryos--a prodigious improvement, you will agree, on nature.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

15  Identical twins--but not in piddling twos and threes as in the old viviparous days, when an egg would sometimes accidentally divide; actually by dozens, by scores at a time.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

16  Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance, lying along the polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work-tables.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

17  Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I