“I think what drove me away from being a reporter was an inability to accept that the world came in neat stories. Every story you have to report is just part of something bigger. The news isn't what happened last night - it's some cumulative thing that's happened over centuries. I found it hard to think of one event and drag it out of a bubbling pot and present it as the story that explains it all.” ThinkingWorldHardStoriesLastsNightFoundAcceptingHappenedCenturyEventsNewsBiggerReportsPotDragReportersInabilityLast NightNeatCumulative Author:Terry Pratchett
“Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to have some exceptional significance in explaining certain features of life, such as ritual. Again, whereas folk tales simply interchange motifs and develop variants, myths show an odd tendency to stick together and build up bigger structures. We have creation myths, fall and flood myths, metamorphose and dying-god myths.” ShowsTogetherCertainFallHappenedSpecialDyingCreationBiggerStructureSticksFolksMythTalesTendenciesOddFeaturesSignificanceRitualCategoriesFloodExceptionalExplainingSeriousnessMotifsInterchangeCreation Myths Book:Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962 Source: Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962
“I've got a little boy coming and I can't wait. It's going to be the biggest thing that has happened to me in my life so far. Bigger than any Tour de France win.” LittlesI CanWinningWaitingBoysHappenedBiggerFranceLittle Boys Author:Chris Froome
“I think that every collective that you witness occurring on a stage, it's not about any one of the individuals. There's something that's happened that's kind of put all that stuff together into a much bigger result ... some alchemy.” ThinkingKindTogetherIndividualStuffResultsHappenedStageBiggerWitnessCollectivesAlchemy Author:Maynard James Keenan
“People tend to set themselves up in patterns; something happens, it hurts them, then something similar happens, and - it's happened again! It seems much bigger then, and they get worried and go through life looking for that thing, and because they're so concerned and looking for it, when anything that happens resembles that thing, they're sure it's happening again. So sometimes people think things are repeating even when they're not.” PeopleThinkingSometimesSeemsHappensHurtHappenedHappeningsConcernedBiggerPatternsThings HappenWorriedIt HurtsHappening Again Author:Mary Gaitskill
“Women became almost our bigger audience. Teenage girls went crazy for my movie. I saw it. I went to theatres all over and there were gangs of girls going and screaming. There were kids that were 10 or 11 years old when September 11 happened. They've been told for years they're going to get killed, they're going to get blown up. Every time you go on an airplane, X-ray your shoes because you're going to get blown up. Terror alert orange, don't travel. So, people have a reaction and they want to scream. Horror movies have become the new date movie.” PeopleWantYearsKidsGirlAudienceSawsHappenedCrazyGoes OnHorrorBiggerShoesTerrorTheatreReactionsRaysScreamAirplaneSeptemberTeenageOrangeGangSeptember 11Teenage GirlDate Movie Author:Eli Roth
“I believe nothing happens by accident. My fame has happened for a reason. My fans are my kindred spirits in revolution. If anyone chooses to ignore the message or the messenger, they do so at their own risk. Believe it or not, there are many more people out there that understand what I am trying to do than society wants to admit. The way I live my life represents a much bigger part of America than anyone would care to imagine” PeopleIfsWayWantTryingBelieveReasonHappensCareAmericaSpiritI BelieveImagineRiskHappenedFansRevolutionFameMessagesBiggerAccidentsThings HappenLiving My LifeMessengersKindredI Live My LifeKindred Spirit Author:Marilyn Manson
“There's a bigger question again about how to do prevention. It's not simply about putting out the early warning. The early warning was put out on Abyei; everybody knew that this was coming. This was intentional, and still it happened. So this idea that we fail to stop these things because there's not awareness about them, or that we need better early warning information, I'm increasingly skeptical of. I think it's about how you move that information into the policy process.” ThinkingNeedsStillsIdeasMovingProcessFailingHappenedAwarenessInformationPolicyBiggerWarningSkepticalPrevention Author:Rebecca Hamilton
“If you can think outside the box or you can think bigger than that, then that will keep you centered in this earth, in this planet. I think with me I always believed in God but after certain things happened to me that's when I knew without a doubt.” IfsThinkingEarthCertainDoubtHappenedPlanetsBiggerBoxesThings HappenAlways BelieveThink BigOutside The BoxThink Outside The Box Author:Ryan Montgomery