“When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.” WorldTryingFirstsWarBigsNextEventsMaterialsEnglandHistoricalMusicalStrikesWar Of The WorldsDocumentariesFirst World WarHistorical Events Author:Trevor Nunn
“In space-time everything which for each of us constitutes the past, the present and the future is given en bloc...Each observer, as his time passes, discovers, so to speak, new slices of space-time which appear to him as successive aspects of the material world, though in reality the ensemble of events constituting space-time exist prior to his knowledge of them.” WorldRealityPastSpeakGivenSpaceEventsMaterialsAspectUnityObserversTime PassesEnsembleMaterial WorldSpace Time Author:Louis de Broglie
“Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher.” NeedsStillsFacesTurnsFireEventsMaterialsHigherCircumstancesAimObstaclesPursueFuelThrownInwardLampsConsumed Book:Meditations: A New Translation Source: Meditations: A New Translation
“My notion of art is very maximalist and souped-up: I love spectacle, overload, magic materials, magic words, incantation and litany, incarnation and possession, spilling and wounds. Art as a sacred event.” ArtMagicEventsMaterialsArt IsSacredNotionPossessionWoundsIncarnationOverloadSpillingMagic Words Author:Joyelle McSweeney
“My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if the material events which mark and ballast my career had not their public dates and characters scientifically discoverable.” IfsCharacterPastFictionCareersNovelEventsMaterialsMarkHistoricalSheerRemembranceHistorical NovelsBallast Book:The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings Source: The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings
“THE FACT THAT MY DAD IS A PREACHER HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING. HE PROBABLY WOULDN'T AGREE WITH SOME OF MY MATERIAL BUT THEN AGAIN THERE'S NO SIGN ON MY COMEDY EVENT THAT SAYS "REVIVAL HERE TONIGHT". IM SURE GOD HAS MORE IMPORTANT THINGS TO DO THAN GO TO MY 8 OCLOCK OMAHA SHOW. THE SHOW IS THE SHOW AND CHURCH IS CHURCH.” ImportantFactsShowsChurchComedyEventsMaterialsDadAgreeImportant ThingsMy DadThings To DoTonightPreacherRevivalOmaha Author:Larry the Cable Guy
“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 wonders of a journey consist far more of such intangible experiences and unexpected situations than of factual things and events of material reality.” RealitySituationWonderJourneyEventsMaterialsUnexpectedFactualIntangible Author:Anagarika Govinda
“Let us not forget that the value of this great system does not lie primarily in its extent or even in its efficiency. Its worth depends on the use that is made of it... For the first time in human history we have available to us the ability to communicate simultaneously with millions of our fellowmen, to furnish entertainment, instruction, widening vision of national problems and national events. An obligation rests on us to see that it is devoted to real service and to develop the material that is transmitted into that which is really worthwhile.” FirstsHumansDoeMadeRealUseProblemLyingValuesAbilityForgetVisionMillionsEventsMaterialsDependsFirst TimeEntertainmentCommunicateAvailableObligationInstructionWorthwhileDevotedEfficiencyHuman HistoryAbility To Communicate Author:Herbert Hoover