“I got starstruck not by someone who is famous, but by someone who's famous in the miniature painting community. When I was a kid, I used to paint miniatures. There were famous people in the miniature community from forums online. I went to some big event and I saw them in real life and I was so starstruck.” PeopleRealBigsKidsUsedCommunitySawsEventsPaintingPaintReal LifeOnlineForumsMiniaturesBig Events Author:Ansel Elgort
“Since I have no agenda and nobody tells me what to do I get to say anything I want to and I like it very much when my forum allows me to broach subjects to the public that have never been done before.” WantDoneSubjectsAgendasSay AnythingForums Author:Marc Morrone
“It mattered what someone did to allow you to have the forum to do what you're doing.” Forums Author:Pharoahe Monch
“When all is said and done, the home is the ideal forum for teaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.” SaidDoneHomeJesusChristTeachingJesus ChristIdealsForumsSaid And Done Author:Tad R. Callister
“I owe no duty to the forum, the election ground or the senate; I am ... no barking pleader, no judge, no soldier, no king; I have withdrawn from the populace. My only business is with myself. I have no care save not to care. The better life you would more enjoy in seclusion than in publicity. But you will decry me as indolent. ... None is born for another, being destined to die for himself.” CareDiesEnjoyBornJudgingDutyKingsElectionSoldierSenateDestinedBetter LifePublicityForumsSeclusion Author:Tertullian
“I recall asking the late eminent liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger, in a public forum in Los Angeles in the late 1970s, if he would say that America was, all things considered, a better, i.e., more moral, society than Soviet society. He said he would not.” IfsSaidAmericaMoralLateAll ThingsAskingLos AngelesHistorianSovietRecallsArthurForumsMoral Society Author:Dennis Prager
“I don't think they're more temperamental people now. With social media we hear a lot more about it. The nastiness you get online, there were always mean girls - always - they didn't have such a big forum as they do now. Mean girls ought to get a life, I think.” PeopleThinkingMeanBigsGirlSocialMediaOughtSocial MediaOnlineForumsMean GirlsNastiness Author:Jacki Weaver
“America's universities are filled with economically ignorant haters of the free market, so university campuses have become major forums for union denunciations of such companies as Nike, Wal-mart, and others. Faculty and students claim to be concerned about 'social justice,' but they are simply being used as dupes by unions who are not at all concerned with justice of any sort. Rather, their main concern is increasing the coffers of union treasuries by driving non-union competitors from the market.” AmericaUsedSocialJusticeCompanyStudentsMajorsConcernConcernedClaimsSocial JusticeFilledUnionsUniversityDrivingIgnorantFacultyCompetitorsFree MarketCampusTreasuryForumsNikeDupes Author:Thomas DiLorenzo
“The function of the press is very high. It is almost holy. It ought to serve as a forum for the people, through which the people may know freely what is going on. To misstate or suppress the news is a breach of trust.” PeopleKnowsMayOughtHolyNewsFunctionPressesForumsBreachBreach Of Trust Author:Louis D. Brandeis
“Baseball is the ideal forum for teachiing the art of failure; the very best fail to get a hit seven out of ten times.” ArtFailingTenIdealsBaseballSevenForums Author:Sam Dunn
“Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views.” PeopleThinkingTryingBelieveUseGovernmentPoliticalViewsDramaticForumsElectorateWarpPolitical ViewSmaller Government Author:David Mamet
“I think that Comic-Con is just a wonderful forum. It's just the perfect place for our show and the fans have embraced us so wonderfully. I would be shocked, if we weren't back every year.” IfsThinkingYearsShowsWould BePerfectWonderfulFansComicShockedForumsComic Con Author:Laurie Holden
“It's my mission to try and give people fighting the disease the same gifts of laughter and a positive attitude I had. Hopefully, my career as a comic will give me the forum to touch these people.” PeopleGivingTryingFightingAttitudeCareersDiseaseLaughterGive MeMissionsHopefullyComicPositive AttitudeForumsGift Of Laughter Author:Robert Schimmel
“Democrats should run Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for president. He's more coherent than Dennis Kucinich, he dresses like their base, he's more macho than John Edwards, and he's willing to show up at a forum where he might get one hostile question - unlike the current Democratic candidates for president who won't debate on Fox News Channel. He's not married to an impeached president, and the name Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is surely no more frightening than B. Hussein Obama.” ShouldShowsMightRunningNamesPresidentWillingMarriedNewsDressesDemocraticDemocratCurrentsDebateCandidatesFrighteningFoxesHostileHusseinFox NewsForumsMachoNews Channels Author:Ann Coulter
“During a recent life development forum we offered a session on Christian practices. In one of the four weeks we introduced the practice of making the sign of the cross on ourselves. This gesture has become a very powerful experience for me. It is rich with meaning and history and is such a simple way to proclaim and pray my faith with my body.” WayBodyChristianSimplePowerfulPracticeRichFourWeekDevelopmentPrayingCrossesGesturesSessionVery PowerfulForumsSimple Ways Author:Doug Pagitt
“I don't want people to feel like they have to state something in a certain way because so-and-so might be around on the site. It's nice when people have a forum to discuss things among themselves. If you had a certain special-occasion blog I could probably contribute...I normally post on my site if I'm writing about music, and if you have a specific issue you're addressing or you want me to write about certain topics, then I'd be happy to try.” PeopleIfsWayWantFeelsWritingTryingStatesMightCertainIssuesNiceSpecialOccasionsPostsWant MeSiteTopicsBlogsYou Want MeForumsSpecial Occasion Author:Hilary Hahn
“The plays raise issues that are ignored in other forums.” PlayIssuesRaisesIgnoredForums Author:Ishmael Reed
“Sometimes I do feel exposed. I have this kind of theory about different channels or levels of relaying experience - when I tell someone, one on one, in a personal context, about something that's happened to me - that has a very different valence, a different charge, than when/if I've said it in a public forum.” IfsFeelsKindSaidDifferentSometimesLevelsHappenedTheoryExposedForumsOne On One Author:Leslie Jamison
“If you think art is a competitive forum, then you're going to stop doing it if you're not good. But if it's not competitive, it's something that you'll keep doing.” IfsThinkingArtArt IsForums Author:Zephyr Teachout
“Silver rights aren't as dramatic and captivating as civil rights. The movement isn't good TV and it's boring or inaccessible to many people. The forums were created to spread awareness, dialogue, and community to forge new partnerships and ideas.” PeopleIdeasCommunityRightsAwarenessMovementTvsBoringSpreadDialogueCivil RightsDramaticSilverPartnershipForumsInaccessibleCaptivating Author:John Hope Bryant
“Well, there is something beautiful about ruins. I mean, in one sense it's not that different from going to Rome and looking at the Forum. But it's changing. It truly is. I'm optimistic but skeptical.” WellsMeanDifferentBeautifulOptimisticRuinsRomeSkepticalSomething BeautifulForums Author:David Maraniss
“I taught. I lectured at universities. I spoke to my students. I spoke in certain public forums. But what I didn't do was respond to microphones being thrust in my face and saying, what is your relationship with Obama and are you an unrepentant terrorist?” FacesCertainStudentsTaughtUniversityTerroristSpokesOur RelationshipThrustMicrophonesForums Author:Bill Ayers
“Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since the beginning of the 70s, and Bob had this press called Writers Forum.” BookSoundPoetPressesBobForums Author:David Toop
“The internet makes information easier to come by, but harder to control - think of the success of blogs like ConservativeHome and Guido Fawkes. I definitely think Parliament's website can be improved - perhaps it could have better access to video feed, include interactive features or have discussion forums.” ThinkingInformationInternetEasierHarderAccessVideoDiscussionFeaturesParliamentBlogsWebsiteForumsInteractiveGuidosFawkes Author:Theresa May
“Our courts provide a neutral forum for the adjudication of disputes under the law, not based on economic or political power, on race, on sex or any other personal characteristics.” LawPoliticalSexRaceEconomicCourtCharacteristicsDisputesPolitical PowerForums Author:Jon Kyl
“Historically, the court has been the forum to which individuals can turn when they believed their constitutional rights were violated. This has been especially noteworthy in the arena of civil rights.” Has BeensTurnsIndividualRightsCourtCivil RightsArenaForumsConstitutional Rights Author:Dianne Feinstein
“Russia hosts a lot of forums, including the International Economic Forum in St Petersburg, [usually in the beginning of summer], as well as the Economic Forum in Sochi.” WellsEconomicSummerIncludingInternationalRussiaHostForumsSochi Author:Vladimir Putin
“The G20 was established as a forum to discuss, first and foremost, world economic issues. If we load it with... Of course, politics affects economic processes, this is obvious, but if we bring some squabbles, or not squabbles, rather, some matters that are really important but relate purely to world politics, we will overload the G20 agenda and instead of addressing such issues as finance, structural economic reforms, tax evasion and so forth, we will engage in endless debates concerning the Syrian crisis or some other global challenges, of which there are many, or the Middle East problem.” IfsWorldFirstsImportantMatterProblemCoursesProcessChallengesIssuesEconomicMiddleTaxesCrisisObviousEastDebateEndlessFinanceReformRelateAgendasMiddle EastLoadForumsEvasionOverloadEconomic IssuesSquabblesWorld PoliticsEconomic ReformsTax Evasion Author:Vladimir Putin
“We should find other platforms, other forums for that [foreign policy], and there are plenty of them, including, for example, the UN and the Security Council.” ShouldSecurityPolicyExampleIncludingPlentyForeign PolicyPlatformsCouncilForumsSecurity Council Author:Vladimir Putin
“When you were a kid, if you went to the Montreal Forum or a hockey game at Maple Leaf Gardens, which I did, there was a great feeling. The new stadiums don't have it. Why don't they have it? Building codes.” IfsFeelingsKidsGamesBuildingGardenCodeHockeyLeafsStadiumsForumsMontrealGreat FeelingsMaple Author:Frank Gehry
“I think forums are great. It's a weird thing to overhear a conversation about yourself. But, the bottom line is that these people are really interested; they get the image and they get very opinionated and it turns into squabbles. You know that's human nature, that's life.” PeopleThinkingKnowsHumansTurnsLinesHuman NatureConversationBottomAbout YourselfBottom LineWeird ThingsForumsOpinionatedSquabbles Author:Rick Owens
“There are not enough forums where institutions invite their workers to share their failures in a constructive way so the organization can move forward.” WayEnoughMovingShareOrganizationInstitutionsWorkersMoving ForwardInvitesConstructiveForums Author:Lewis Schiff
“At the universities I visit, the exclusivity of Christ is challenged in every open forum - "How can you possibly talk about one God or one way when there are so many good options?"” WayChristUniversityOne WayForumsExclusivity Author:Ravi Zacharias
“What we see today is a world movement represented by the World Social Forum, involving all sorts of interactions across cultures, not to create some new "ism," but to learn as we walk and to create more democratic forms of social organization that re-embed economic life in community.” WorldTodayFormCultureSocialCommunityWalksEconomicMovementOrganizationDemocraticInteractionInvolvingIsmsForumsSocial Organization Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“I love Paris for its wide boulevards and cafes, and Rome for the ancient history, as seen at the Forum.” AncientWideParisRomeForumsCafesBoulevardAncient History Author:Alan Titchmarsh
“I don't think it was much of a forum for positive or negative feedback; it was mainly, "How can I make somebody laugh?" It wasn't a serious thing where I needed people to give me feedback.” PeopleThinkingGivingLaughingSeriousNeededNegativeGive MeFeedbackForumsSerious ThingsNegative Feedback Author:Cakes da killa
“I had just come off of doing a play in Los Angeles which actually got me the role. It was called Bent and it was at the Mark Taper Forum. I was playing a homosexual in 1930 to 1934 Berlin who is eventually put into a concentration camp for the second half of the play. I had lost about 38 pounds for that.” PlayLostHalfRolesMarkConcentrationPoundsLos AngelesCampsHomosexualBentBerlin1930sForumsConcentration Camp Author:Patrick Heusinger
“National security is a serious matter and I do not think it is in proper to discuss such details in a public forum.” ThinkingMatterSecuritySeriousDetailsNational SecurityForums Author:Narendra Modi
“We have seen recently, almost every major head of state goes to India and says, we believe India should be in the Council. They go back home and do nothing about it. But this cannot be sustained for long. If they want to keep the UN as a global forum where they discuss incidents and take some meaningful decisions, they should [reform].” IfsWantShouldBelieveLongStatesHomeDecisionMajorsIndiaMeaningfulReformCouncilIncidentsBack HomeForumsHead Of State Author:Kofi Annan
“There are things that make me excited about what I'm doing: Trouble the Water [the 2008 documentary Glover executive produced] on New Orleans, or something like Soundtrack for a Revolution, about the power of the music of the civil rights movement [which he executive produced in 2009]. Or Bamako, about the African debt crisis, a platform to discuss the experience of people who actually live it. All of these are important ways we can use film as a forum inviting people into a dialogue.” PeopleWayImportantUseFilmWaterRightsTroubleMovementRevolutionCrisisExcitedDebtDialogueCivil RightsExecutivesPlatformsDocumentariesNew OrleansCivil Rights MovementInvitingSoundtracksForumsDebt Crisis Author:Danny Glover
“When I was a teenager and all these shows were on I was in that business, so I knew a lot of people in the theaters and I saw many of the great shows many times. I would go in and stand in the back - they would let me in, they knew me. I saw Fiddler on the Roof, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Gypsy, and Funny Girl many times just standing in the back.” PeopleWayShowsGirlSawsHappenedStandingLet MeTheaterThings HappenTeenagerRoofFunny ThingsGypsyForumsFiddlersFunny GirlFiddler On The Roof Author:Christopher Walken
“During the 1996 Forum election my election agent, John Dobson, told me that at some stage down the line we were going to have to talk to the IRA and that I was the man to do it. And my reaction was not printable!” MenLinesStageHe ManElectionReactionsAgentsForumsIra Author:David Trimble
“I got the nickname in the preseason of my rookie season. I was playing for the Suns at the (Great Western) Forum. I got a block or a steal or a dunk and (TNT broadcaster) Kenny Smith went crazy. He called me 'The Matrix.' Who wouldn't like it? Players go through their whole career without having a nickname.” WholeCareersSunPlayerCrazySeasonsWesternStealingBlockNicknamesForumsBroadcastersKennyRookies Author:Shawn Marion
“I was inspired by what students have done in some schools organizing walkouts protesting the lack of funding and that sort of thing. There are opportunities for students to engage in those types of protests - taking to the streets - but there is also writing poetry, writing music, beginning to express themselves, holding forums, educating each other, the whole range.” WritingDoneWholeSchoolOpportunityStreetsStudentsTypeMusic IsInspiredRangeProtestFundingForumsWriting PoetryWriting Music Author:Michelle Alexander
“I said in a forum on health care if the Republicans can come up with a system that insures more people cheaper, better I will be the first one.” PeopleIfsFirstsSaidCareRepublicanCome UpHealth CareCheaperForums Author:Barack Obama
“The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.” PersonsLiteratureNumbersConversationArtificialReceptionForums Author:Jerzy Kosinski
“Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge closer ties based on mutual understanding and respect, leading to permanent peace in the Taiwan Strait.” MayUnderstandingChinaDialoguePermanentTiesMutualArrangementsForumsTaiwanMutual Understanding Author:Nick Lampson
“The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.” FirstsPrinciplesSocietyFlowFree SpeechFreedom Of SpeechFree SocietyForums Author:Adlai E. Stevenson
“In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely "tolerated", they are valued.” MenSpeechChinaVideoAugustForumsBeijing Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“There is a movement happening, a quiet one. A low-profile, low-resolution revolution. Comprised of writers and dreamers, of guerrilla artists and thought-ninjas. Those with something to say. They communicate through text inscribed on true public spaces, rather than blogs and forums. Choosing fewer words, even without being bound by 140 character limits. Using ink instead of pixels. Sending messages in living, breathing space. Pens scream louder into the void. Even if permanent ink is not aptly named.” IfsCharacterArtistSpaceMovementRevolutionQuietLimitsMessagesLowsHappeningsBoundsCommunicateBreathingPermanentResolutionPensDreamerScreamVoidFewerInkBlogsProfileForumsNinjaGuerrillas140 CharacterBreathing SpacePixelsSending A Message Author:Erin Morgenstern