“Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur simultaneously, but sound, travelling slower than light, reaches you later, creating the illusion of two separate events.” TwoLightSoundEventsMovementCreatingIllusionCaptureLightningThunder Author:U.G. Krishnamurti
“Patricia Smith is one of the best poets around and has been for a long time. Her Blood Dazzler is full of capacious soul and formal inventiveness: the compassion and artfulness necessary to capture the tragedies and Tragedy of Katrina. Smith is herself a storm of beautiful, frightening talent. Her words will wash you or wash you away. I consider this new book a major literary event.” LongHas BeensBookSoulBeautifulCompassionBloodTalentEventsPoetMajorsLong TimeTragedyStormCaptureFrighteningFormalNew BooksKatrinaInventivenessBest Poet Author:Terrance Hayes
“Mental events such as perceivings, rememberings, decisions, and actions resist capture in the net of physical theory.” ActionRememberDecisionEventsTheoryCapture Book:Essays on Actions and Events: Philosophical Essays Source: Essays on Actions and Events: Philosophical Essays
“The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to conjure visions of the future. But by the time the image reaches the eyes of the viewer, it belongs to the past, taking on the status of something retrieved.” WorldHappensEyePastAbilityVisionEventsCamerasCaptureViewersUncannyVisions Of The Future Author:A. O. Scott
“Sometimes, despite the fact that you're reading through masses of material, you just can't not think about a certain event, for it seems to capture the reality of the entire situation so much better than any set of statistics.” ThinkingSometimesFactsRealitySeemsCertainReadingSituationEventsMaterialsMassDespiteStatisticsCapture Author:Nicholson Baker
“The Petraeus-Crocker testimony is the kind of short-lived event on which the Administration has relied to shore up support for the war: the 'Mission Accomplished' declaration, the deaths of Uday and Qusay Hussein, Saddam's capture, the transfer of sovereignty, the three rounds of voting, the Plan for Victory, the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Every new milestone, however illusory, allows the Administration to avoid thinking ahead, to the years when the mistakes of Iraq will continue to haunt the U.S.” ThinkingYearsKindWarThreeMistakeSupportPlansEventsVictoryRoundsIraqMissionsAdministrationAccomplishedVotingAlsShoreCaptureDeclarationSovereigntySaddamTestimonyHusseinTransfersIllusoryMilestoneShort LivedThinking AheadMission Accomplished Author:George Packer