“I went to a school that was founded on a lot of very radical ideals of how education should be changed. But what's happening to schools like that sort of all over the country is in economic pressure they're becoming more and more preparatory because that's what people will really pay the money for private schooling for now.” PeopleShouldCountrySchoolPayEconomicChangedBecomingHappeningsIdealsPressureRadicalSchoolingBecoming MorePrivate School Author:Ezra Miller
“I don't think it is always necessary to take up the anti-colonial -- or is it post-colonial? -- cudgels against English. What seems to me to be happening is that those people who were once colonized by the language are now rapidly remaking it, domesticating it, becoming more and more relaxed about the way they use it -- assisted by the English language's enormous flexibility and size, they are carving out large territories for themselves within its frontiers.” PeopleThinkingWayUseSeemsLanguageBecomingHappeningsSizeEnormousPostsTerritoryRelaxedFlexibilityEnglish LanguageFrontiersBecoming MoreCarving Author:Salman Rushdie
“I think we are becoming more and more linked, and before long, we'll all be one culture. It's happening in every field, not just fashion. Actually, I think the only hope for peace is if culture is homogenized. Unfortunately, money seems to be the only solution to political disagreements. If we are all linked through culture and trade, it won't be worth fighting each other.” IfsThinkingLongSeemsPoliticalCultureFightingFashionFieldsBecomingSolutionsHappeningsTradeLinkedDisagreementBecoming MoreFighting Each Other Author:Tom Ford
“Many Christians in the evangelical tradition use words like "conversion," "regeneration," "justification," "born-again," etc. all as more or less synonyms to mean "becoming a Christian from cold." In the classic Reformed tradition, the word "justification" is much more fine-tuned than that and has to do with a verdict which is pronounced, rather than with something happening to you in terms of actually being born again. So that I'm actually much closer to some classic Reformed writing on this than some people perhaps realize.” PeopleWritingMeanUseChristianTermRealizingBornFineColdBecomingHappeningsTraditionConversionClassicEtcJustificationEvangelicalBorn AgainRegenerationVerdictSynonym Author:N. T. Wright
“I got the letter about becoming a Sir in 2000, the same year that Pauline asked me if we could finally get married. My assistant, Colette, called up and it turned out both the wedding and the Buck House ceremony were happening on the same day. I was knighted at 11 and married at four. She became an instant Lady.” IfsYearsHouseFourBecomingMarriedHappeningsLettersInstantCeremonyBucksAssistants Author:Paul Smith
“We can understand first of all that what is happening in the world of becoming, the world we all experience as beings, is that novelty is entering into being, and it is changing the modalities of the real world toward greater and greater levels of integration.” WorldFirstsRealLevelsGreaterBecomingHappeningsReal WorldIntegrationEnteringNovelty Author:Terence McKenna
“Ever since [Donald]Trump has been opening his big mouth, you`re seeing all these bitter people, latent racists who are becoming emboldened. You`re seeing some ugly stuff happening around this country.” PeopleHas BeensCountryBigsStuffSeeingTrumpBecomingHappeningsMouthsUglyOpeningBitterRacistLatentBitter People Author:Bernie Sanders
“I drove from New York to California by myself. The iconography of travel and escape is everywhere in my photographs... So actually becoming a runaway was crucial. I had this idea that I'd make my way across the frontier and find my story as it was actually happening in the landscape.” WayIdeasStoriesNew YorkBecomingHappeningsPhotographMy WayLandscapeCaliforniaCrucialFrontiersRunawayIconography Author:Justine Kurland
“Aesthetics is not an end in itself. But in our culture, which is becoming more multi-sensory and less respectful of God, we have a responsibility to pay attention to the design of the space where we assemble regularly. In the emerging culture, darkness represents spirituality. We see this in Buddhist temples, as well as Catholic and Orthodox churches. Darkness communicates that something serious is happening.” WellsEndsCultureSpiritualityChurchSpacePayAttentionResponsibilityDarknessDesignSeriousBecomingHappeningsCatholicCommunicateBuddhistPay AttentionTemplesOrthodoxAestheticsEmergingRespectfulBecoming MoreSensoryOrthodox Church Author:Dan Kimball
“When we think of death, we often imagine it as happening in degrees: We think of a sick person becoming less and less alive until finally they are gone.” ThinkingPersonsGoneAliveImagineBecomingDegreesHappeningsSickSick Person Author:John Green
“As long as there are a few people there, I can lose myself, which is the ultimate goal. And that's happening more and more; the non-musical world is becoming less and less interesting to me.” PeopleWorldLongI CanGoalLosesInterestingBecomingHappeningsUltimateMusicalUltimate Goal Author:Cass McCombs
“When you're coming up with different ways of getting old memories to transform - you're scratching, you're doing all this kind of sampling - what ends up happening is that you're becoming a kind of writer with sound.” WayKindDifferentEndsSoundMemoriesBecomingHappeningsDifferent WaysGetting OldSamplingOld Memories Author:DJ Spooky
“When I look back on my life-and an extraordinary transformation is happening again to me right now - I describe it as my “point of observation” is moving. It is moving because my range of frequencies I am accessing is becoming greater. It’s not because I’m something special because anyone can do it.” LooksMovingCan DoGreaterSpecialBecomingRight NowHappeningsTransformationExtraordinaryObservationRangeFrequencySomething SpecialHappening Again Author:David Icke
“When you see what is happening with the social network, with Facebook, Twitter and co it is becoming obvious that the reputation of ourselves is becoming more and more important everyday. Image is becoming too much for me, and we are living in a virtual world and sometimes it is very easy to make mistakes. It is more difficult to take responsibility for our mistakes.” WorldImportantSometimesSocialEasyDifficultMistakeResponsibilityToo MuchBecomingHappeningsEverydayObviousReputationMaking MistakesTaking ResponsibilityBecoming MoreSocial NetworkVirtual World Author:Emmanuel Petit
“I think that happens to a lot of people who find themselves thrust into the spotlight and becoming famous before they recognize what's happening to them. Life becomes a little distorted for them.” PeopleThinkingLittlesHappensBecomingHappeningsThrustSpotlightBecoming Famous Author:Linda D. Thompson
“I think, year in, year out, Google is starting to get worse instead of better. I think this is happening to a lot of the web companies, is as their demand to increase the payload they deliver in ads increases, they end up degrading and corrupting their own services. And you can see it with Google Maps, you can see it with Google Directions, where somehow Uber is, you know, always one of the options. And it's becoming exactly what they said was what they never wanted, which is a pay-for service where the highest bidder gets the best results.” ThinkingKnowsYearsSaidEndsWantedResultsPayCompanyBecomingDemandHighestHappeningsIncreaseStartingMapsAdsGoogleThey SaidDegradingUberGoogle Maps Author:Tim Wu
“Optimism and happiness are not the same thing, but they are becoming interchangeable, and it seemed to me that Voltaire's Candide gave me a way into something important happening in modern-day culture.” WayImportantCultureModernBecomingHappeningsOptimismModern DayCandide Author:Mark Ravenhill
“Clients are becoming more and more savvy. They know what's happening in the brands; they know the new products that are coming out.” KnowsProductsBecomingHappeningsBrandsComing OutClientsBecoming MoreSavvyNew Products Author:Delphine Arnault
“For Fanon, becoming actional is connected to his idea of a new humanism, which is explicitly critical of European humanism so intimately connected with colonialism. So, it is not simply about finding new concepts from anywhere, but being both critical and self-critical and also being very open to what is happening on the ground.” IdeasSelfBecomingFindingsHappeningsConceptsHumanismConnectedCriticalColonialism Author:Nigel Gibson
“Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film. We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-- disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.” IfsKnowsMindShowsCareFilmScienceMemoriesDarkBecomingHorrorOffersHappeningsMiseryFleshMeatVegetarianVeganFactoriesVegetarianismVeganismOur MemoriesHorror FilmSustenanceDark PlacesFactory FarmingEating Animals Author:Jonathan Safran Foer