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“People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.”

People Want Trying Looks Ideas Sound Watches Laughing Events Tvs Sitting Tables Folks Currents Drawing Silly Shallow Cartoon Stimulus Sitting Down Current Events Deep Meaning

Author:Gary Larson

“To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished.”

Ends Sound Break Records Events Mere Extremes Missions Accomplished Barriers Records Breaking

Author:Felix Baumgartner

“To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.”

Sound Silence Events Sorrow Waste Dread

Author:Sophocles

“Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet and Instagram, film clip and sound bite, as sporting event, investment opportunity, Tinder hookup, and interest rate--its value measured not by its texture or its substance but by the speed of its delivery, a distinction apparent to Andy Warhol when he supposedly said that any painting that takes longer than five minutes to make is a bad painting.”

“The reverberation often exceeds through silence the sound that sets it off; the reaction occasionally outdoes by way of repose the event that stimulated it; and the past not uncommonly takes a while to happen, and some long time to figure out.”

Way Long Happens Past Sound Silence Events Figures Long Time Reactions Exceed Repose Reverberation

Book:Sometimes a Great Notion

Source: Sometimes a Great Notion

“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.”

Two Light Sound Events Movement Creating Illusion Capture Lightning Thunder

Author:U.G. Krishnamurti

“A dozen swimming events have already been completed in the Olympic competition. I wonder where they got the name 'Speedo.' It doesn't sound like a bathing suit, it sounds like a breakfast cereal for meth addicts.”

Funny Names Sound Wonder Events Competition Suits Breakfast Swimming Dozen Olympics Addict Cereal Bathing London Olympics Bathing Suits Breakfast Cereal Speedos

Author:Craig Ferguson

“To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.”

Ifs Hands Success Sound Results Events Judging Battle Kissing Decided Court Errors Defeat Commit Instance Heroism Nelson Clouded

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“We've forgotten what it's like not to be able to reach the light switch. We've forgotten a lot of the monsters that seemed to livein our room at night. Nevertheless, those memories are still there, somewhere inside us, and can sometimes be brought to the surface by events, sights, sounds, or smells. Children, though, can never have grown-up feelings until they've been allowed to do the growing.”

Children Stills Sometimes Feelings Light Able Night Sound Memories Rooms Growing Events Sight Forgotten Smell Surface Monsters Nevertheless

Author:Fred Rogers

“I don't physically put Appetite For Destruction in and listen to it, but I hear it on the radio or at sporting events or wherever else it pops up, and it's great. I dig everything about it. When I hear Appetite, it sounds like exactly what it was. It sounds like a record made by an angry bunch of kids.”

Made Kids Sound Records Events Destruction Angry Radio Pops Bunch Appetite Sporting Events

Author:Slash

“I don't like to rate myself; others can do that. I've spoken with a number of young people who weren't even born in 1969, when the first moon landing was made. They've witnessed the first person to fly at faster than speed of the sound without propulsion. These kids are happy to have had such a momentous event in their lifetime.”

People Firsts Persons Made Kids Young Sound Can Do Born Numbers Events Moon Lifetime Rate Speed Faster First Person Landing Moon Landing Propulsion

Author:Felix Baumgartner

“Why all this insistence on the senses? Because in order to convince your reader that he is THERE, you must assault each of his senses, in turn, with color, sound, taste, and texture. If your reader feels the sun on his flesh, the wind fluttering his shirt sleeves, half your fight is won. The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his senses, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events. He cannot refuse, then, to participate. The logic of events always gives way to the logic of the senses.”

“"Little Brother" sounds an optimistic warning. It extrapolates from current events to remind us of the ever-growing threats to liberty. But it also notes that liberty ultimately resides in our individual attitudes and actions. In our increasingly authoritarian world, I especially hope that teenagers and young adults will read it - and then persuade their peers, parents and teachers to follow suit.”

“The 'idea' for the poem, which may come as an image thrown against memory, as a sound of words that sets off a traveling of sound and meaning, as a curve of emotion (a form) plotted by certain crises of events or image or sound, or as a title which evokes a sense of inner relations; this is the first 'surfacing' of the poem. Then a period of stillness may follow.”

Firsts May Ideas Form Certain Sound Memories Emotion Events Periods Relation Crisis Titles Thrown Stillness Curves Evoke

Author:Muriel Rukeyser

“I wanted to get more serialized. I had this idea for an event that would click onto everybody's mortality. I said, "I want somebody to die." Fortunately for me, when I was toying with that idea, John Landgraf, who's the head of FX but also a very smart executive, came up with the idea of the ashes in the maracas. He called me up and said, "Listen, what about this, they get the ashes in a box and when they get them, they shake them and they sound like maracas." And I was like, "Okay, now I've got my throughline."”

Want Said Ideas Wanted Dies Sound Events Smart Okay Boxes Shakes Executives Mortality Ashes Clicks Very Smart

Author:Denis Leary

“The history of the world for the past several centuries and current events at home and abroad confirm the existence of such a conspiracy (to destroy Christianity and obtain global power). The world-wide net-work of diabolical conspirators implements this plot against the Christian faith while Christians appear to be sound asleep. The Christian clergy appear to be more ignorant or more indifferent about this conspiracy than other Christians ... It seems so sad.”