“When I was a child, I saw in the news that a person from Belitung had done well in sports in Jakarta, and I just couldn't imagine that it was possible for someone from here to become famous, and it's still very isolated out here.” WellsChildrenPersonsStillsDoneSportsSawsImagineNewsIsolatedImagine ThatJakarta Author:Andrea Hirata
“If the numbers mean anything, they tell us that vastly more life is left in the reviled internal-combustion engine than any of the blue-state lefties could imagine. First, that madman Bush wins, and now this news. How depressing.” IfsFirstsMeanStatesLife IsWinningLeftNumbersImagineNewsBlueInternalsEnginesDepressingMadmenCombustionLefties Author:Brock Yates
“As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.” WorldHumansHelpingFeelingsPoetryLanguageLinesSituationImaginePerspectiveHonorNewsToolsDirectMetaphorDetailsMeaningfulGenuinePoetry IsImageryHeadlines Author:Naomi Shihab Nye
“If the mood is overly anxious, then anxiety must be reduced by lowering uncertainty. Very simply, uncertainty is reduced when people are told what's going on and what will happen to them. In the vacuum of no news, people imagine the worst. Since disappointment is much easier to handle than anxiety, then, good news or bad, honesty is honestly the best policy.” PeopleIfsHappensImagineWorstHonestyPolicyEasierAnxietyNewsDisappointmentHonestlyMoodHandleUncertaintyAnxiousGood NewsVacuums Author:Judith M Bardwick
“We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States. If somebody is able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what's going to happen when they see a documentary they don't like or news reports they don't like."” IfsStatesHappensAbleUnitedUnited StatesImagineNewsFolksReportsCensorshipDictatorDocumentariesIntimidatingImposingSatirical Author:Barack Obama
“Can you imagine if everyone on the planet turned off their TV to stop the intake of fear from the news channels and just concentrated on love? The whole planet would instantly propel itself into the ascension process and turn into a heavenly state in a higher vibratory dimension!” IfsStatesWholeTurnsProcessImaginePlanetsTvsHigherNewsDimensionsHeavenlyAscensionTurned OffNews Channels Author:DJ QBert