“I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can't just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it's really in how the technology is used. What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we're going.” ThinkingWorldUsedBitsQualityTechnologyWonderfulQuietHappeningsReflectionAssumingThings HappenNoiseFasterWho We AreOppositionTrendsWonderful ThingsQuality Of LifeDisturbedNew TechnologyQuiet Reflection Author:Alan Lightman
“I feel like I can't fully understand what's happening now until I really understand what's happened before. But you do get sort of bogged down a little bit when you're trying to study so many years' worth of music. It can be a little bit overwhelming.” FeelsTryingYearsLittlesI CanBitsStudyHappenedLittle BitHappeningsOverwhelming Author:Zooey Deschanel
“I wouldn't want to promote teenage girls having sex. But the reality is, it's happening, and they're just a little too young to understand how careful they need to be. That's a big battle with me, because I'm 23, and a lot of my fans are eight years younger than I am, so there's a bit of a tug-of-war there. I want to set the right example and, at the same time, live my life.” WantNeedsYearsLittlesWarBigsRealityYoungGirlSexBitsFansExampleBattleHappeningsCarefulEightTeenageLiving My LifeHaving SexTeenage GirlTug Of War Author:Rihanna
“Radio has changed, there was a little bit of difference around the country and now that is gone and everything is uniform. That is not the only place it's happening in music, there's a lot of consolidation.” LittlesCountryBitsDifferencesGoneChangedLittle BitHappeningsRadioUniformsConsolidation Author:Joan Jett
“Obviously, we can see what was in front of the camera, but if a photograph is honestly made, it's a bit of a self-portrait. I think it's impossible for a photographer who is working honestly to keep this from happening.” IfsThinkingMadeSelfBitsImpossibleFrontsPhotographyHappeningsCamerasPhotographerPhotographHonestlyMade ItPortraitsSelf Portrait Author:John Sexton
“I always like to borrow bits and pieces of things. There's a line between jumping on something that's happening and incorporating bits and pieces of it into my work.” BitsLinesPiecesHappeningsJumpingBits And PiecesIncorporating Author:Girl Talk
“I'm very much for strengthening our industry at home. It's great now there's a lot of work happening but I think with Irish film in particular, the views were starting to get a little stereotypical and we were pigeonholing ourselves a little bit. We needed to get out of that.” ThinkingLittlesHomeFilmBitsViewsParticularIndustryNeededLittle BitHappeningsStartingStrengthening Author:Saoirse Ronan
“There was this big skiffle craze happening for a while in England.... Everybody was in a skiffle group..All you needed was an acoustic Guitar, a washboard with thimbles for percussion, and a tea-chest- you know, the ones they used to ship tea from India- and you just put a broom handle on it and a bit of string, and you had a bass..you only needed two chords; Jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing. And I think that's basically where i've always been at. I'm just a skiffler, you know. Now I do posh skiffle, that's all it is.” ThinkingKnowsTwoBigsUsedBitsGroupsNeededHappeningsIndiaEnglandGuitarHandleShipsTeaStringsChestsChordsBassAcousticsBroomsAcoustic GuitarPoshPercussionCraze Author:George Harrison
“Writing can be a bit like unfolding something...Slowly, the writer reveals what's happening. But that's only half of what's going on. Writers are very cunning people who are not only unfolding and revealing. Just like conjurors and magicians, they are hiding stuff too.” PeopleWritingStuffBitsHalfHappeningsHidingMagicianCunningRevealingUnfolding Author:Michael Rosen
“Knowing that a great bit of the technology is active and actually happening, and that the technology that we're talking about, in terms of uploading a human consciousness, is probably not all that far away, to be honest. Indeed, it will happen. It's pretty close.” HumansHappensBitsTermConsciousnessTalkingTechnologyKnowingHonestHappeningsActiveBeing HonestFar AwayHuman Consciousness Author:Johnny Depp
“If somebody asks me about the themes of something I'm working on, I never have any idea what the themes are. . . . Somebody tells me the themes later. I sort of try to avoid developing themes. I want to just keep it a little bit more abstract. But then, what ends up happening is, they say, 'Well, I see a lot here that you did before, and it's connected to this other movie you did,' and . . . that almost seems like something I don't quite choose. It chooses me.” IfsWantTryingWellsLittlesIdeasEndsSeemsAsksBitsLittle BitHappeningsConnectedDevelopingAsk MeAbstractThemeLike SomethingChoose Me Author:Wes Anderson
“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
“We think is happening in the brain, the way I like to think about it is, it's almost like, you're brain is going through all these stages of sleep and it's developing in children so fast that it's almost like you're shifting gears in a car. And at some point, you actually stall out a little bit, and that's kind of what happens during a night terror.” ThinkingWayKindChildrenLittlesHappensNightBitsSleepBrainStageCarLike YouLittle BitHappeningsTerrorDevelopingShiftingGearsNight Terrors Author:Shelby Harris
“I had this crazy, a bit of a near-death experience in Estonia. I had these visions of the future but I was in this state where I felt the past, the present, and the future were all happening at the same time.” StatesPastFeltBitsVisionCrazyHappeningsNear DeathNear Death ExperienceVisions Of The FutureEstonia Author:Taraka Larson
“The work that I've been trying to do with violence against women and children comes from seeing quite a bit of violence. I just think it's important that we try to help the young boys who are watching the fathers do it - because if it's OK for the fathers to do it, then these young boys are watching their dads and going, well, nothing's happening to them, so maybe this is OK. But actually, this violence needs to stop in the sandpits.” IfsThinkingNeedsTryingWellsChildrenImportantHelpingYoungFatherBitsBoysViolenceSeeingDadHappeningsViolence Against Women Author:Kelly LeBrock
“It's a little bit about how I felt about Hail, Caesar! and now Star Wars. I could not have predicted those things happening to me. But I'm just happy they come along.” LittlesWarStarsFeltBitsLittle BitHappeningsThings HappenHail Author:Alden Ehrenreich
“The biggest issue for me is whether large numbers of Americans can begin to think that government can actually help make the country a fairer place. And that's partly a matter of policies that achieve results in terms of reducing inequality and raising middle-class and working-class incomes, which have been flat for decades. But it's also symbolic and rhetorical, it's whether Hillary Clinton can - or whoever's president - can persuade Americans that it's happening and that they can begin to trust their elected officials a little bit more and their institutions of government a little bit more.” ThinkingLittlesHas BeensCountryMatterHelpingGovernmentBitsPresidentTermResultsNumbersClassIssuesMiddleAchievePolicyLittle BitHappeningsInstitutionsClintonDecadesIncomeInequalityOfficialsMiddle ClassFlatsWorking ClassReducingSymbolicLarge NumbersRhetoricalElected Officials Author:George Packer
“Divers alarums and excursions', she read, uncertainly. 'That means lots of terrible happenings, said Magrat. 'You always put that in plays.' Alarums and what?', said Nanny Ogg, who hadn't been listening. Excursions', said Magrat patienly. Oh.' Nanny Ogg brightened a bit. 'The seaside would be nice,' she said. Oh do shut up, Gytha,' said Granny Weatherwax. 'They're not for you. They're only for divers, like it says. Probably so they can recover from all them alarums.” MeanSaidPlayWould BeBitsNiceListeningTerribleHappeningsBeing NiceShut UpNanniesGrannyExcursions Author:Terry Pratchett