“The [travel] writer, looking back at the journey from a distance of a year or two (or three), is a different character from the hapless character who undertook the trip: wise after the event, with the leisure to tease out meanings from the experience that the distracted traveler never had, and often impatient with his alter ego's blinkered and unsatisfactory version of things.” YearsTwoDifferentCharacterThreeWiseJourneyEventsEgoDistanceVersionsLeisureLooking BackTravelerDistractedImpatientTeaseDifferent CharactersAlter Ego Author:Jonathan Raban
“It's impossible to say that live art enjoys any single status in the information age--there are versions of live art that are still primarily art-world phenomena, others that appeal to much broader audiences. The Burning Man festival is a case in point--an event featuring performance that is itself a performance, which partakes simultaneously of frontier mythology, a counter-cultural impulse, and popular cultural visibility.” MenWorldArtStillsAgeEnjoyCasesAudienceImpossibleEventsInformationPerformancesMythologyVersionsBurningAppealsImpulseFestivalsFrontiersArt WorldInformation AgeVisibilitySingle StatusBurning Man Author:Philip Auslander
“I know there is no danger that I will ever forget that people construct their own reality, that human beings are not led to the same version of events and of the world by the same physical evidence.” PeopleKnowsWorldHumansRealityHuman BeingsForgetEventsDangerEvidenceVersionsConstructs Author:Dale Spender
“All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because were liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.” Our LivesEventsVersionsLiarsShiftingViewpoints Book:He's Gone: A Novel Source: He's Gone: A Novel
“We're interested by public personas and private personas, otherwise we wouldn't put on with actors rambling on with the same kind of stuff, over and over again, saying variations of the same thing. I'm always amazed by how fascinated people still are by actors because it's the same version of events that actors describe, all the time.” PeopleKindStillsActorsStuffEventsVersionsFascinatedAmazedVariationPersonaRambling Author:Toby Jones
“We talked about trying to create an image that would somehow, to an audience, create the sense of awe, wonder and shock that the troops must have felt that their monarch - and a female monarch - went to the frontline of battle and was prepared to lay down her life. This speech is so well known and has been done in virtually every version of the events of Elizabeth's life.” TryingWellsHas BeensDoneFeltKnownWonderAudienceEventsBattleSpeechFemaleLaysPreparedVersionsAweShockTroopsWell KnownMonarchsFrontline Author:Cate Blanchett
“I don't know if I was as ambitious as to change the world, but I do feel like - the reason why I called the album "Our Version of Events" was that I feel a lot of people are not represented in pop music and popular culture.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldFeelsReasonCultureEventsAlbumsPopsVersionsReason WhyChanging The WorldAmbitiousPop MusicPopular Culture Author:Emeli Sande
“There will always be a replacement coming along very soon - a newer version, a crazier version, a louder version. So if you haven’t got a long-term plan, then you are merely a passing phase, the latest trend, yesterday’s event.” IfsLongTermPlansEventsHavensYesterdayPassingVersionsPassingsLong TermTrendsPhasesReplacementsLatest Trends Book:I'll Never Write My Memoirs Source: I'll Never Write My Memoirs
“The differences between the received wisdom, the standard version of events, and the facts on the ground may be subtle or they may be stark, even profound.” MayFactsDifferencesEventsStandardsProfoundVersionsSubtleStarks Author:William Finnegan
“During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn't just accept the official version of events.” WarGovernmentUsedChallengesAcceptingEventsNewsVersionsManagersJournalistOfficialsGulf War Author:Tariq Ali
“I had to imagine myself into certain aspects of [Julian Assange] character for our version of events. That involved extrapolating based on clues in his biography, his public persona, photographs, and other accounts of him by people who encountered him during that extraordinary period from 2007 to 2010 that we charted in the film [The Fifth Estate]. So, it involved a lot of research but, sadly, no contact with the man himself.” PeopleMenCharacterFilmCertainImagineEventsHe ManInvolvedPeriodsResearchAspectAccountsExtraordinaryPhotographVersionsContactEstatesBiographiesClueFifthPersonaAssange Author:Benedict Cumberbatch