“I find titles the hardest thing. I was worried that 'Waste Land' was too much of a downer. For me, 'The Crash Reel' confronts what the film is about: it's not just about the reality of a crash, it's about the extremity we all face, and what happens when life crashes on you.” RealityHappensFilmFacesToo MuchLandWasteHardestWorriedTitlesCrashHardest ThingExtremityDownersWaste Land Author:Lucy Walker
“the country of the aged is a land few people think very hard and seriously about before the time of life when they sense that they're arriving there. Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people.” PeopleThinkingCountryHardSeemsHappensAgeLandOld AgeArrivingBeing Old Book:Unfinished business: pressure points in the lives of women Source: Unfinished business: pressure points in the lives of women
“Whatever happens in the country, whatever warfare harasses our land, we will never relinquish our hold on Western learning. As long as this school of ours stands, Japan remains a civilized nation of the world.” WorldLongCountryHappensSchoolNationsLandRemainsWesternJapanCivilizedWarfareWhatever HappensCivilized Nations Book:The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa Source: The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa
“I suppose there was never yet a woman who had not somewhere set up on a pedestal in her brain an ideal of manhood. ... He never is finished till the brain of his creator ceases to work, till she has added her last touch to him, and has laid down the burden of life and gone elsewhere, perhaps to some happy land where ideals are more frequently realised than ever happens here.” HappensLastsBrainGoneLandIdealsCreatorBurdenFinishedCeaseElsewhereManhoodRealisedPedestalBurdens Of Life Author:Humphry Davy
“There's a cinematic quality that happens in my mind when I hear something that really lands. An album is just a journal of a life moving through time.” MindHappensMovingQualityLandAlbumsJournalRough TimesCinematic Author:Ben Gibbard
“If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It's almost like an ecological viewpoint: These people are living in this piece of land, and in this piece of land in this time this is possible. For me, I almost think location first. It's time first - what year is it - then where are we, and then who is in it.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsFirstsCharacterStoriesHappensAsksPiecesLandEqualAsk MeLocationEcologicalViewpoints Author:Mike Mills
“The two sports are as different as Ping-Pong and rugby. In boxing, you don’t know what’s going to happen. In wrestling, it’s already prearranged. But the thing I didn’t know about wrestling is that you really get hurt. Because, you know, you’re wrestling in front of a live audience, and you end up doing things like jumps or slams, and 40 percent of the time you don’t land right.” KnowsTwoDifferentEndsHappensSportsHurtAudienceLandFrontsPercentBoxingWrestlingRugbySlamPingPing Pong Author:Mickey Rourke
“There's a longstanding myth about the United States that is still very prevalent in Europe [despite recent developments]. Historically the "America" of this myth is an incredible human adventure and an experiment in political democracy. But at the same time, or so we're told, it's the land of extremes where the worst can happen.” HumansStillsStatesHappensAmericaPoliticalUnitedUnited StatesDemocracyLandWorstAdventureDevelopmentEuropeIncrediblesExtremesMythExperimentsDespite Author:Bruno Dumont
“Whatever happens in Washington, Wall Street, Hollywood or Silicon Vally in the next ten years, it will be irrelevant if our families don't come together at a much higher level. Without a renaissance of family, no new candidate can rise to save us. No new legislation, policy or program will heal our land.” IfsYearsHappensTogetherNextLevelsStreetsLandPolicyWallHigherTenProgramHollywoodHealOur FamilyCandidatesLegislationIrrelevantRenaissanceWhatever HappensHigher LevelSilicon Author:Oliver DeMille
“Dutch beaches were known to me as man-made territories, as part of various land reclamation projects. But I was also interested in the media reality of the Moon landing. I wanted to use that event as a measure of time, to see what had happened in those thirty years - which happens to be my lifetime as well. I was born in 1967 and I remember seeing the Moon landing on TV when I was two. All those things were in play. Then it became a big production. It took five months to gather up the goodwill and make it happen.” MenYearsWellsMadeTwoPlayUseBigsRealityHappensWantedRememberBornKnownFiveSeeingHappenedLandMediaEventsTvsMonthsMoonProjectsLifetimeProductionsVariousBeachThirtyTerritoryMake It HappenGoodwillThirty YearsLandingDutchMoon LandingReclamation Author:Aleksandra Mir
“I've always wanted to play with this idea - and I didn't want to leave it to the last season, but I wasn't quite sure when it was going to happen - of putting Jax [sons of Anarchy] at the head of the table and the ripple effect on the guys and the loyalties of it and where people land.” PeopleWantIdeasPlayHappensWantedLastsGuyLandEffectsSonSeasonsTablesLoyaltyAnarchyRippleRipple Effect Author:Kurt Sutter
“[The Land] is a film that just happens to be directed and written by a Puerto Rican guy with a black dad. It seemed like a very natural, human interaction between people who all just came from one common cesspool of bad luck.” PeopleHumansHappensFilmGuyBlackNaturalCommonWrittenLandDadLuckInteractionBad Luck Author:Erykah Badu
“What will happen to the spirit of this ancient dreaming land without the great mobs of kangaroos bounding across the song lines, energizing the land? Will the sunset and dawn mourn the passing of the creatures who danced in their light?” DreamLightHappensSpiritSongLinesLandFutureCreaturesAncientPassingPassingsDawnSunsetMournEnergizingKangaroos Author:Sue Arnold
“There are instances: [Henry David] Thoreau read [John] Wordsworth, [John] Muir read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt read Muir, and you got national parks. It took a century for this to happen, for artistic values to percolate down to where honoring the relation of people's imagination to the land, or beauty, or to wild things, was issued in legislation.” PeopleHappensValuesImaginationLandCenturyRelationInstanceArtisticParksLegislationTeddyNational ParksWild ThingsWordsworthDavid Thoreau Author:Robert Hass