“There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is, sometimes you get an inside line on what's really happening. You develop these strange antennae that clue you in to what's really going on.” SometimesArtistLinesStrangeHappeningsGood ThingsBad ThingsClueBeing An Artist Author:David Bowie
“Huge advances in clean energy technology are happening all the time. Solar and wind are booming. New ways to generate energy from our windows, the paint on our walls, and even our bike paths are being invented all the time. Technology is moving forward, but it needs to be moving forward faster.” WayNeedsMovingEnergyTechnologyPathWindHugeWallHappeningsWindowCleanPaintMoving ForwardFasterNew WaysBikeClean Energy Author:Katharine Hayhoe
“The future of Afghanistan is incredibly dark, and decisions are happening incredibly quickly.” DarkDecisionHappeningsAfghanistan Author:Eliza Griswold
“If you're going to break up, it reaches a point where whatever is happening is not working and it all comes to a head. I think that's a tough realization and it's hard to communicate sometimes. You just have to think about your happiness and the other person's happiness, and communicate really honestly.” IfsThinkingPersonsSometimesHardBreakHappeningsToughCommunicateHonestlyRealization Author:Tyler Blackburn
“Because jurors have an extraordinary amount of power over the situation and of the people and the story in front of them, they tend to pay pretty intense attention to what's happening.” PeopleStoriesPayAttentionSituationFrontsAmountHappeningsExtraordinaryIntenseJurors Author:Zephyr Teachout
“It's really difficult to get good information, and there's a reason for that. They're not letting journalists in. Whenever something really bad is happening, we always are dealing with uncertain information. Certainly what is happening there is qualitatively different from what happening in Abyei.” DifferentReasonDifficultInformationHappeningsJournalistUncertainGood Information Author:Rebecca Hamilton
“I don't have a problem with the media focusing on bad things happening. That's our job, after all. But I think it's incomplete, and I would even say it's inaccurate, to only portray a place through its tragedies.” ThinkingProblemJobsMediaHappeningsTragedyThings HappenBad ThingsIncompleteBad Things Happen Author:Annia Ciezadlo
“There weren't paparazzi standing outside. There weren't all these photographers. People really didn't know what fashion was and what was happening in the tents.” PeopleKnowsFashionHappeningsStandingPhotographerStanding OutTentsPaparazzi Author:Roopal Patel
“Exploring the different avenues and being open to synchronicity and crazy coincidences and little things happening is part of going on your journey to investigate - and the little jewels you might find along the way, my job is to bring those back home and put them on my album.” WayLittlesDifferentHomeMightJobsJourneyCrazyHappeningsAlbumsThings HappenLittle ThingsExploringCoincidenceJewelsAvenuesBack HomeSynchronicity Author:Bat for Lashes
“I like to joke that you usually write more books before death than after death, so that's why I'm doing it. But really, I remain engaged with ideas. There are so many things happening that turn me on and I just want to examine them.” WantWritingBookIdeasTurnsHappeningsJokesThings HappenEngagedAfter DeathTurn MeBefore Death Author:T.C. Boyle
“Music is, by far, the best art. Nothing even comes close. It's so immediate and emotional. In writing, maybe ninety percent of it is the unconscious and ten percent is control. In music, I think it's probably more like ninety-nine percent the unconscious. It's just a beautiful thing happening through you. And so, too, is writing a great story.” ThinkingWritingArtStoriesBeautifulEmotionalTenMusic IsHappeningsPercentThings HappenNineUnconsciousBeautiful ThingsNinetyNinety NineBest Art Author:T.C. Boyle
“When you're in the midst of writing, it's a beautiful thing happening through you. Many people have said that it's not you, it's the soul of humankind and so on, I don't know. But it has the same effect [as music]. It takes you out of your body and out of this planet.” PeopleKnowsWritingSaidSoulBodyBeautifulEffectsPlanetsHappeningsYour BodyThings HappenMidstHumankindBeautiful Things Author:T.C. Boyle
“If you're onstage and you're improvising and nothing's happening, people are racing for the door. But the director can go shopping later and pick up pieces and moments and insert them.” PeopleIfsMomentsPiecesDoorsDirectorsHappeningsPicksRacingShoppingImprovisingInsert Author:Gary Cole
“I got offstage and was just looking at my hands, and they were shaking. I was like, 'I wanna kill someone! What's happening?'” HandsHappeningsShaking Author:Annie E. Clark
“I believe in the moment of things and fate and things happening for a reason, so I write things down and I trust it.” WritingBelieveReasonMomentsI BelieveFateHappeningsDown AndI Believe InThings HappenHappening For A Reason Author:Ellie Goulding
“I'm very curious about David Bowie's new record [2016]. I'm very, very... I'm just incredibly curious, I want to see what's happening with that. I don't really know who else is putting out records, we've had our heads buried working on ours. I haven't really been paying much attention lately.” KnowsWantAttentionRecordsHavensHappeningsCuriousBuriedBowie Author:Patrick Stump
“I think there's gonna be three networks, and then the rest will be Internet-based, and Amazon is gonna be huge and one of the networks. This is so serious. Ha. But really, you see it happening right now. You can see the shifts.” ThinkingThreeSeriousHugeInternetRight NowHappeningsAmazon Author:Derek Waters
“I wanted to dissolve the boundary between the outside world and the world of the relationships. Those events, with exception of the Mt. Saint Helens explosion, were happening in the real time of the book, as I was writing.” WorldWritingBookRealWantedEventsHappeningsSaintBoundariesExceptionExplosionsOutside World Author:Paul Lisicky
“My johns adored and worshipped me, therefore they empowered me. When I was 18, 19, and 20, I had a poor self-image and needed attention. It's hard for people who haven't been prostitutes to imagine, but I think it's often true. There can be a very symbiotic relationship happening.” PeopleThinkingSelfHardPoorAttentionImagineHavensNeededHappeningsEmpoweredPoor Self Image Author:Annie Sprinkle
“People aren't stupid. They saw what was happening at the Cologne central station. A lawless space was created in the middle of a city of over a million. That has to be addressed and it has to be done so in a sober-minded way.” PeopleWayDoneSpaceCitiesMillionsSawsMiddleStupidHappeningsStationsSoberCologne Author:Alice Schwarzer
“[Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And partly drawn from my own childhood: violence and a loss of innocence. But keep in mind that, as a writer, I'm both the criminal and the victim. I'm not trying to get out of anything easy.” ThinkingTryingMindDesireEasyMy OwnLossAudienceViolenceChildhoodHappeningsVictimCriminalsInnocenceShockLoss Of Innocence Author:Said Sayrafiezadeh
“I can't blame anyone for being pessimistic when they look around, after all the blood spilled and energy spent to gain ground for working people in the past, and see it all happening again. I wasn't pointing a finger when I wrote the book, but sometimes the message is there even when you aren't actively trying to be the messenger.” PeopleTryingLooksI CanBookSometimesPastEnergyBloodMessagesHappeningsGainsBlameFingersPointingPessimisticMessengersHappening AgainPeople From The Past Author:James Vance
“You look what's happening all over Europe - Europe is being absolutely swamped and destroyed.” LooksHappeningsEuropeDestroyed Author:Donald Trump
“What many fail to realize is that being attached to what we think we want and don't have while resisting what is happening in the moment is the cause, not the cure, of much personal suffering and interpersonal conflict.” ThinkingWantMomentsSufferingCausesRealizingFailingConflictHappeningsCuresResistingInterpersonal Author:Lee L Jampolsky
“You may not have chosen what is happening to your body, but you can choose how you respond.” MayBodyHappeningsYour BodyChosen Author:Lee L Jampolsky
“You can learn to direct yourself to be peaceful inside regardless of what is happening with your body.” BodyHappeningsDirectYour BodyPeaceful Author:Lee L Jampolsky
“And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening.” PeopleKnowsCountryBigsYoungSeeingDangerGayHappeningsScaryEducatedBritainFrighteningCatchingHivGay People Author:Elton John
“I think President [Barack] Obama is exactly right, we need to combat [gun shoots] because this really can become the new normal, but that`s really what`s been happening.” ThinkingNeedsPresidentNormalHappeningsGunBarackCombatPresident Barack ObamaNew Normal Author:Jonathan Michel Metzl
“Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs and ecosystems that's happening beneath the surface.” MovingOceanHappeningsWaveSurfaceGenreEcosystemsReefsBeneath The Surface Author:Charlie Jane Anders
“When I began writing songs, there was a pretty direct line between what was happening in my life and what I wrote about. So my first album was really all about my failed attempts to make a particular relationship work.” WritingFirstsSongLinesParticularHappeningsDirectAlbumsWriting Songs Author:Erin McKeown
“I believe in magical things happening and spiritual goings on. Sometimes the most mundane things can surprise you and be magical.” BelieveSometimesSpiritualI BelieveHappeningsSurpriseI Believe InThings HappenMundane Author:Rae Morris
“There are things that are happening way earlier than that when it comes to someone deciding whether they're going to spend x amount of millions of dollars on a movie. I want $100 million success. The moviegoer is the person I'm more interested in than the Academy.” WayWantPersonsMillionsAmountHappeningsDollarsOscarsAcademy Author:Don Cheadle
“I've always been curious about people's psychedelic experiences, and I kind of had this assumption that I was going to have some kind of crazy mindblowing psychedelia thing happening, but actually, it was very quiet, and I didn't have any hallucinations at all. Nothing changed, except that suddenly I could hear the voice of my conscience, which I didn't ever think of as being a real voice. And ever since having that experience, I've had that voice in my head and followed it occasionally.” PeopleThinkingKindRealVoiceCrazyChangedQuietHappeningsConscienceThings HappenCuriousAssumptionThings ChangePsychedelicHallucinationsPsychedelic ExperienceVoices In My Head Author:Larkin Grimm
“When I was working at Omega, I took this Zen retreat, where you're quiet, you don't say anything for a week, and this guy there said, "You're going to be enlightened at the end of this week, that's my goal." I was the engineer, so I was recording everything at it was happening, but I was also participating, because I felt like it. So at the end of it, I did understand what enlightenment was, one-hundred percent.” SaidEndsGuyFeltGoalWeekQuietHappeningsEnlightenmentPercentHundredEnlightenedEngineersSay AnythingRetreatThis GuyParticipating Author:Larkin Grimm
“In fact, I always assumed that most everything I read was true, to one degree or another. I couldn't articulate this fact until after I read Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and he discussed Happening Truth, Story Truth, and Emotional Truth. I always understood that the facts of The Sun Also Rises or On the Road were the facts as dictated by a certain narrative structure, but because the experiences of those characters echoed my own feelings about the world. I knew there was a Happening Truth behind them.” WorldCharacterFactsStoriesFeelingsCertainMy OwnBehindsSunEmotionalTruth IsDegreesHappeningsUnderstoodStructureNarrativeSun Also RisesNarrative StructureTim O Brien Author:Kevin Keck
“I think there's just so much awesome music coming out of New Zealand, I've always loved The Naked And Famous, I absolutely love Ghost Wave... it just seems like there's a really cool scene happening out there, I'd love to go and spend some time there and see what other bands are popping up.” ThinkingSeemsSceneBandHappeningsWaveGhostNakedComing OutReally CoolNew ZealandPopping Author:Lizzy Plapinger
“The question I have is out of all these commencement speeches that are happening, what`s the really worthwhile advice that a 21, 22 year old person will walk away from the speech and say, I can apply this maybe five years, 10 years later. How many speeches actually push the button like that, other than yours?” YearsPersonsI CanWalksFiveAdviceSpeechHappeningsFive YearsWorthwhileButtonsCommencementOld PersonCommencement Speech Author:David Corn
“Many organizations help businesses to stay on top of what's changing or likely to change. It's important for executives and managers who focus on a company's health coverage to stay up-to-speed on what's happening, and it's important for those in the C-suite to understand the changes to factor these new variables into their strategic planning calculus.” ImportantHelpingCompanyFocusHappeningsOrganizationSpeedPlanningFactorsManagersExecutivesStrategicCoverageVariablesStrategic PlanningCalculusHealth Coverage Author:John E. McDonough
“If we remain fearful, then we will be further stripped of power as we barrel towards this neofeudalistic state where there is a world of masters and serfs, a kind of permanent underclass. That's what's happening; that's what's being created. Rapacious corporate business interests have shattered all kinds of regulations and controls. They have carried out a coup d'etat in slow motion. And it's over; they've won.” IfsWorldKindStatesInterestMastersHappeningsAll KindsCorporatePermanentFearfulRegulationShatteredBarrelsCoupsSlow MotionSerfs Author:Chris Hedges
“I think dreams hold a lot of meaning. I believe that if the universe is truthfully infinite then there are infinite possibilities for dreams to be happening somewhere out there.” IfsThinkingBelieveDreamUniverseI BelievePossibilityHappeningsInfiniteInfinite PossibilitiesSomewhere Out There Author:Tom DeLonge
“I wouldn't change any part of my life that I've lived up until now. I kind of believe in fate a little bit and I believe that whether it be good or bad, everything is happening for a reason regardless of how good or how terrible it is.” BelieveKindLittlesReasonI BelieveBitsFateTerribleLittle BitHappeningsBe GoodHappening For A Reason Author:Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi
“I remember being very affected by what was going on there towards the end of Apartheid. And the subject is still very pertinent, politically, to what's happening around the world today, in terms of negotiating peace talks. I had always been interested in this period of change in South Africa, generally, for a variety of reasons.” WorldStillsEndsReasonTodayRememberTermSubjectsPeriodsHappeningsSouthAround The WorldVarietyAffectedSouth AfricaWorld TodayApartheidNegotiatingPertinentPeace Talks Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor
“There's always something ridiculous happening on the set, especially when people get tired because of the long days.” PeopleLongHappeningsTiredRidiculousLong Day Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor
“I cannot find words to express the depth of my loss or outrage about what's happening to this country. I don't know if I can find the words for it, but if this country ever recovers, it will not be in my lifetime. If I were elected President, the first thing I would do would be to set up a Department of Restoring the Bill of Rights. I would have 10,000 people working there.” PeopleIfsKnowsFirstsI CanCountryWould BePresidentLossRightsHappeningsBillsLifetimeDepthDepartmentOutrageBill Of RightsRestoring Author:Sara Paretsky
“So, it just seemed like it happened naturally. We nailed our live show to some extent in a year or about a year and a half, maybe just a year of playing songs pretty much around L.A. then we went and scheduled a mini-tour up-state on the West Coast and that's when the whole Rough Trade [Records] thing started happening and from there, things just happened so quick. It changed really quickly.” YearsStatesWholeShowsSongHalfRecordsHappenedChangedHappeningsTradeWestRoughCoastWest Coast Author:Theresa Wayman
“The universe only gives you what you can handle, so trust that whatever is happening to you is exactly what you need. Just trust. Have certainty!” NeedsGivingUniverseHappeningsHandleCertainty Author:Patricia Velasquez
“I do a lot of work with the Red Cross, too. As a reporter, before I went to entertainment news, I tended to follow natural disasters. I went to Charleston, South Carolina, after Hurricane Hugo. I went to Miami the year after they were recovering from Hurricane Andrew. I came to California when they were recovering from a big earthquake. I've seen the Red Cross and how they stay there years after a natural disaster. They're not just there when a disaster is happening.” YearsBigsNaturalNewsHappeningsRedCrossesSouthEntertainmentDisasterCaliforniaReportersHurricanesEarthquakesCarolinaMiamiAndrewRecoveringNatural DisasterSouth CarolinaCharlestonRed CrossCharleston South Carolina Author:Nancy O'Dell
“How can I look at it and say, there it is - it's real. This is what is happening. It might even be a catalyst for more personal growth for me. It might be a blessing in disguise. It might not be. What's my best course of action? How can I be skillful?” LooksRealMightActionCoursesGrowthBlessingHappeningsPersonal GrowthDisguiseCatalystSkillfulBlessings In Disguise Author:Brad Willis
“I think, in a way, I've returned to who I used to be as a global correspondent whose life was devoted to really making a difference, illuminating what's happening in the world, always drawn toward the suffering of peoples and cultures and exposing exploitation and injustice; but now I'm the same person in a much, much softer iteration.” ThinkingWorldWayPersonsUsedSufferingCultureDifferencesHappeningsInjusticeUsed To BeMaking A DifferenceDevotedExploitationExposingIlluminating Author:Brad Willis
“Another option, which I think is the thing that makes more sense, is this fact that the police are a reflection of the occupation of certain neighborhoods and certain parts of cities that are designed, basically, to keep the bottom down and basically maintain the status quo, but out of sight, so that the other side - the people in power, the people with money, the people with comfort, the people that are living in the "safer" areas - are sure that they can sleep safely in their bed while bad thing are happening to people and it's not their problem.” PeopleThinkingFactsProblemCertainSidesSleepCitiesComfortBedHappeningsReflectionAreasSightPoliceDown AndBottomNeighborhoodBad ThingsOccupationStatus Quo Author:Oren Moverman