“When you're reading, you're laughing and not quite noticing what's happening. One second you're still kind of chuckling, and then all of sudden you're in the third act of the book and in this very dark and claustrophobic place.” KindStillsBookReadingDarkLaughingHappeningsThirdsNoticing Author:Moshe Kasher
“Now however, we have contraception and it's mostly reliable so you can have sex without that happening. So then you start vilifying the act of sex itself. I don't think Buddhism has ever done that necessarily, or at least I'm not aware of Buddhism taking the stance that Christianity often has which says that sex itself is a kind of evil act, which is a really weird idea.” ThinkingKindIdeasDoneEvilSexChristianityBuddhismHappeningsStanceReally WeirdContraception Author:Brad Warner
“I had promised myself when I first got started that if I got to the point my life where I started feeling 'Gee, I'd rather be at home than at work', and that started happening more often than not, that it would be time to leave. I'd wake up some days and go "Oh, I don't even know if I want to go face this anymore". I would, I would go do it, I'm a dutiful kind of person and not afraid of work.” IfsKnowsWantFirstsKindPersonsFeelingsHomeWould BeFacesHappeningsWake UpNot AfraidTime To Leave Author:Bernie Finkelstein
“I'll never understand the art world. But I kind of feel like there's been some art world/black metal crossovers happening for a while.” WorldFeelsKindArtBlackHappeningsMetalsArt WorldCrossoverBlack Metal Author:Mick Barr
“I'd have to think about it, but I was listening to this Johnny Cash song today that Tom Waits wrote for him - I think that's the story. For some reason it's a thing that sticks in my brain. He's describing this scene where he sees all these almost biblical images happening kind of in this burrow where this biblical train runs through this yard.” ThinkingKindReasonStoriesRunningTodaySongWaitingBrainListeningSceneHappeningsTrainSticksCashTomsBiblicalYardsDescribing Author:Justin Vernon
“I wouldn't say music is my passion, or my calling, or anything like that. I mean, I don't really believe in that kind of stuff. Life is a series of chance happenings, so I just fell into it.” BelieveKindMeanLife IsPassionStuffChanceCallingMusic IsHappeningsSeriesMy PassionMusic Is My Passion Author:Zachary Cole Smith
“There are some people who believe that dreams really are just kind of a throwaway thing. They are just a way of your brain processing what's happening during the day, but there's really no meaning to them; a lot of imagery of just flashes of what happened.” PeopleWayBelieveKindDreamBrainHappenedHappeningsFlashImageryProcessing Author:Shelby Harris
“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
“There's something about urban life - you walk out your door, and you're in a steady of stream of life happening around you, and it's very easy to get caught up in that stream and simply kind of keep on moving.” KindMovingEasyWalksDoorsHappeningsCaughtStreamsSteadyUrbanCaught UpKeep MovingEasy To GetLife HappensUrban Life Author:Dani Shapiro
“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
“That's the kind of visual that you're trying to attract - something that in some way or another, connects you to what's happening there in a realistic way.” WayTryingKindHappeningsVisualsRealistic Author:Frank Luntz
“What's kind of happening is the conflict over football might be a class conflict where there is a percentage of people who have no relationship to physicality and a percentage of the populace who still does.” PeopleKindDoeStillsMightClassFootballConflictHappeningsPercentagesPhysicalityClass Conflict Author:Chuck Klosterman
“I'm starting to reread a bunch of Gandhi and it was kind of traumatic, because he was so clearly, unbelievably amazing. And the stuff that he is suggesting is so profoundly opposite from what is happening in our world today.” WorldKindTodayStuffHappeningsOppositesStartingBunchOur WorldWorld TodaySuggesting Author:Daniel Pinchbeck
“I'm not denying that in the world there's been some tremendous musical happenings, like DJ Shadow or whatever, that kind of thing. But when it goes into the weird thing where you get a remix done by a certain person because they need a brand name, that's when it becomes really discouraging.” WorldNeedsKindPersonsDoneCertainNamesHappeningsShadowMusicalBrandsDiscouragingDjsWeird ThingsRemixBrand Names Author:Paul Morley
“[You Got To Make It Through The World] it's kind of a survival song. Survival is what's happening and it's basically a song about that.” WorldKindSongSurvivalHappenings Author:Van Morrison
“I'm always thinking ahead, and I'm always curious about what's happening next. I thrive on that kind of thinking, so I don't burn out.” ThinkingKindNextHappeningsCuriousThriveBurn OutAlways ThinkingThinking Ahead Author:Thakoon Panichgul
“Puberty was definitely difficult for me. I remember my friends and I looking forward to puberty because it seemed exciting at first. You read Judy Blume and you think, "This is kind of cool." But when it actually started happening to me, I was terrified.” ThinkingFirstsKindRememberDifficultHappeningsMy FriendsExcitingTerrifiedLooking ForwardPuberty Author:Mara Wilson
“I can't live in a bubble and expect to come and work with Dior or go work on a movie and not have some kind of an evolution within myself and my own thought process and a passion about things or what's happening in the world. All of those things are the elements that make you who you are, and those are the things that sincerely come across in a photo or a commercial or in an interview. That's a constant thing for me.” WorldKindI CanPassionProcessMy OwnEvolutionElementsHappeningsWho You AreConstantInterviewsBubblesSincerelyThought ProcessDior Author:Charlize Theron
“I remember when I was maybe 27 years old and kind of at the height of my movie stardom - it was around the time of the Oscar and this and that. I think I was very much believing my own hype, which how could you not? I was sitting with my dad, feeling great about my life and everything that was happening, and he was like, "You know, you're getting a little weird...You're kind of an asshole." And I was like, "What the hell?" I was totally devastated. But it turned out to be basically the best thing that ever happened to me.” ThinkingKnowsYearsBelieveKindLittlesFeelingsRememberMy OwnHellHappenedLike YouDadHappeningsSittingMy DadBest ThingsHeightOscarsRemember WhenMovie StarHypeDevastatedStardomBest Thing That Ever Happened To MeFeeling Great Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“The kind of organic wave, the way that waves move, and I'm not just talking about feminism, the way that a social movement might rise like a wave. It's harder to build any kind of wave now. Things are important to you and then they recede within a day. That's the only thing that keeps me from believing that there's going to be any one organic big wave; although the Americana (music) thing has been happening for a while.” WayBelieveKindHas BeensImportantBigsMightMovingSocialTalkingFeminismMovementHappeningsHarderWaveSocial MovementsAmericana Author:Dar Williams
“It's important that if one opposes discriminatory speech, one opposes all kinds. That is that one decides on a principle that it will include all minorities. But if the protection of one minority against another minority is what is happening, then I worry about that.” IfsKindImportantPrinciplesWorrySpeechHappeningsProtectionAll KindsMinorities Author:Judith Butler
“You could protect a religious minority against gays and lesbians. Or you could protect gays and lesbians against a religious minority. And then, it seems to me something political is happening. Because we're not really looking at the kind of speech that is injurious.” KindSeemsPoliticalReligiousGayProtectSpeechHappeningsMinorities Author:Judith Butler
“Absolutely I'm going to be talking about it, because it's in the zeitgeist and it's happening. It's an election year. It's the biggest election. Every election is a big election, so whenever anybody says that it kinds of grates me, but it's a fiasco. It's turned into a complete circus act, so of course you have to make fun of it, but responsible journalists definitely are being irresponsible. They're giving [Donald Trump] so much air time.” GivingYearsKindBigsCoursesFunTalkingAirTrumpHappeningsResponsibleElectionJournalistCircusIrresponsibleZeitgeistFiascoGrateElection Years Author:Chelsea Handler
“You invent things like algorithms to take care of some of the changes you want to make. The changes aren't detectable. There's all kinds of things happening as I play.” WantKindPlayCareHappeningsTake CareThings HappenAll KindsAlgorithms Author:Pauline Oliveros
“I think that inevitably, the trouble our characters go through is a kind of metaphor for what's happening in ourselves.” ThinkingKindCharacterTroubleHappeningsMetaphor Author:Alice Mattison
“Permafrost in the soil [is melting], in the boreal and arctic areas in the world, and, probably even more alarming in the last six or eight months, the data on what is happening to the ice shelves in Greenland and the west Antarctic has begun to cause people to radically reassess the earlier conviction that those ice shelves were stable on a kind of century-long time scale.” PeopleWorldKindLongLastsCausesCenturyMonthsSixLong TimeHappeningsAreasWestConvictionEightScalesIceDataSoilStableShelvesMeltingArcticGreenland Author:Bill McKibben
“We don't know where our food comes from. We don't know a lot of things about what is happening financially. This creates the "power over" kind of feeling.” KnowsKindFeelingsHappenings Author:Peter Buffett
“For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes, you know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today's life and no discussion of the real conditions - which is really sickening. They've become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.” KnowsTryingKindRealTodayFilmLyingActorsCasesFantasyConditionsCrimeProduceHeroDirectorsHappeningsCriminalsKingdomsDiscussionRelatedConspiracyCollaboratorsGeneral Public Author:Ai Weiwei
“The things that were happening 30 years ago are now very interesting to people, now very much in style again. There is some kind of 30 year resonance that goes through human culture and expresses itself in different ways.” PeopleWayYearsHumansKindDifferentCultureInterestingStyleHappeningsYears AgoDifferent WaysVery InterestingResonance Author:Owsley Stanley
“I think they [TV productions] were just kind of drying up. I'd done a couple of episodes, but nothing was happening. So I went to Vancouver to visit a buddy and see what was going on, and that year was crazy. Vancouver was on fire at that point. It was all these Stephen J. Cannell productions - The Commish being one of them - and in one I was a bartender, and I think I had five lines.” ThinkingYearsKindDoneLinesFireFiveCrazyTvsCoupleHappeningsProductionsEpisodesBuddyVancouverBartender Author:Eric McCormack
“It would be kind of magical if we were just happening to be able to see right to some boundary and then something crazy happened beyond that, like galaxies ceased to exist. I mean, that just seems nuts.” IfsKindMeanSeemsWould BeAbleHappenedCrazyHappeningsBoundariesBe KindNutsGalaxy Author:Janna Levin
“I think as far as the Miami one - I don't speak for the other two - but as far as the Miami one goes, I just think that there is a level of like glamour to it and you see sexy people, things happening to the rich people. It kind of takes you to a different world. I think that is kind of part of the success.” PeopleThinkingWorldKindTwoDifferentSpeakLevelsRichHappeningsSexyThings HappenGlamourRich PeopleDifferent WorldsMiami Author:Boti Bliss
“In Europe there's kind of a reaction to the European Union, kind of a move towards some kind of regionalization. It's more advanced in some regions than others, like in Spain for example. Catelan was repressed under Franco. People spoke it, but not publicly. It's now the language of Catelonia. The Basque language is being revived, not just the language but the culture, the folk music and everything else. So you're getting more diverse societies, and it's happening in Britain as well.” PeopleWellsKindMovingCultureLanguageExampleHappeningsEuropeUnionsFolksReactionsBritainRegionsSpokesDiverseSpainEuropean UnionRepressedFolk MusicFrancoBasquesDiverse Society Author:Noam Chomsky
“I'll keep this as nonpartisan and diplomatic as possible - but for those of us whose heads are kind of spinning off and are really engaged in what's happening right now and trying to effect change where we can, when we can, I think we also need to express ourselves and express our anger and also find joy in things like The Golden Girls right now.” ThinkingNeedsTryingKindJoyGirlEffectsRight NowHappeningsGoldenEngagedSpinningDiplomaticGolden Girls Author:June Diane Raphael
“On the question of women's sexual freedom or female independence, there are still issues that haven't been worked out. There's an aura of traditional gender roles that is not talked about that really permeates these conversations. There is this vacillation between a desire for independence and having the kinds of sexual freedom that men have and, on the other side, issues about female vulnerability and susceptibility to male aggression and violence. We need more honesty about the actual conditions in which sex is happening.” MenNeedsKindStillsDesireSexSidesRolesIssuesViolenceConditionsHavensHonestyConversationHappeningsFemaleIndependenceMalesGenderTraditionalVulnerabilityAggressionGender RolesAurasSusceptibilityVacillationAggression And Violence Author:Laura Kipnis
“In England, enclosure programs kind of destroyed the commons. In the United States, it happened later. But, ah, now it's happening in the world. The last remnant of the commons is the environment, which the indigenous people are still trying to preserve and we sophisticated rich people are trying to destroy.” PeopleWorldTryingKindStillsStatesLastsUnitedUnited StatesRichEnvironmentHappenedHappeningsProgramEnglandDestroyedPreservesSophisticatedIndigenousRich PeopleIndigenous PeopleRemnantsEnclosure Author:Noam Chomsky
“When I can see someone that's posting the way that they're thinking about what's happening in the world right now or even art that they've created, it inspires me to do the same. It makes me turn off my phone and go paint a painting or go hike a mountain or go record a song. Those are the kind of things that social media helps me do. But it also can make me sit in my room and not do anything.” ThinkingWorldWayKindArtI CanHelpingSongTurnsSocialRoomsRecordsMediaInspirePaintingRight NowMountainHappeningsPaintPhonesSocial MediaHelp MeTurn Off Author:Willow Smith
“I was kind of surprised to learn how controlling I am. I never thought of myself in that way. I think the root of the control issues is usually fear, because you want to know what's going to be happening at any given moment.” ThinkingKnowsWayWantKindMomentsGivenIssuesHappeningsRootsControl Issues Author:Michelle Pfeiffer
“So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place.” PeopleWantKindPresidentCuttingEconomicTaxesBenefitsHappeningsEuropeProgramRetirementPresident ObamaEnteringRecessionsHealth BenefitsRaising Taxes Author:Paul Ryan
“And what I saw happening is that women don't make one decision to leave the workforce. They makes lots of little decisions really far in advance that kind of inevitably lead them there.” KindLittlesDecisionSawsHappeningsWorkforce Author:Sheryl Sandberg
“A lot of people think this is a goodie two-shoes talking. But we do have a tendency to complain rather than celebrating who we are. I learned at my mother's knee it's better to appreciate what's happening... I think we kind of talk ourselves into the negative sometimes.” PeopleThinkingKindTwoSometimesMotherTalkingHappeningsNegativeAppreciateShoesComplainingTendenciesCelebrateKneesWho We Are Author:Betty White
“Johannesburg is weird, because half of it is like Los Angeles. It feels like just wealthy parts of L.A. But half of it is severe slummy, something like Rio De Janiero or something. So it's kind of weird, because it's both happening at the same time.” FeelsKindHalfHappeningsLos AngelesWealthySevereRioJohannesburg Author:Neill Blomkamp
“People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.” PeopleWorldKindFactsPerspectiveHappeningsIllusionAll KindsFantastic Author:David Brinkley
“Love is the kind of thing that's already happening by the time you notice it, that's how it works, and no matter how old you get, that doesn't change. Except that you can break it up into two entirely distinct types -- love where there's an end in sight and love where there isn't.” LoveKindTwoEndsMatterLove IsBreakTypeHappeningsAnd LoveSightOld You Book:Goodbye Tsugumi Source: Goodbye Tsugumi
“The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the darling of the new emerging Indian middle class – they needed a princess. They had the wrong woman. I had this light shining on me at the time, and I knew that I had the stage to say something about what was happening in my country. What is exciting about what I have done since is that writing has become a weapon, some kind of ammunition.” WayWritingKindCountryDoneLightPoliticalClassMiddleStageNeededWeaponsHappeningsExcitingResponsibleShiningActivismIndianMiddle ClassPrizePrincessDarlingEmergingAmmunitionPolitical Activism Author:Arundhati Roy
“He was only twenty-five.He was young enough to miss his youth just as it was slipping away. The worst kind of loss-the one that is happening as you feel it.” FeelsKindEnoughYoungLossFiveWorstMissingYouthHappeningsTwentiesTwenty FiveSlippingSlipping Away Book:Thin Skin Source: Thin Skin