“It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery.” KnowsInterestingMysteryWeekParticularSixMessagesCiaAssassinationWarren Commission Author:Jim Garrison
“A church can wither as surely under the ministry of soulless Bible exposition as it can where no Bible is given. To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people. Then, and not till then, is it the prophetic word and the man himself a prophet.” PeopleMenGivenVoiceChallengesChurchAliveParticularHe ManMessagesProphetPreacherMinistryAlarmsPropheticSoulless Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“The problem here is that a civilization that is 1,000 light years away doesn't know we exist. They don't know that we have radio telescopes here on Earth because they see Earth as it was 1,000 years ago. Nothing can travel faster than light, so however good their instruments they can't see in affect the future. So there is no particular reason they should be sending us messages at this time.” KnowsShouldYearsReasonProblemLightEarthParticularCivilizationMessagesYears AgoInstrumentsRadioFasterTelescopesLight Years Author:Paul Davies
“I don't expect everyone to get something deep out of it. Some people can just listen to the music, or get their aggressions out, but I think with any great painting or movie, album or whatever it is, it's better if people can take what they need from it. That they're not forced to get some particular message.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsParticularPaintingMessagesAlbumsAggressionJust Listen Author:Marilyn Manson
“It's interesting when you're doing signing sessions with other writers and you look at the queues at each table and you can see definite human types gathering there.... My queue is always full of, you know, wild-eyed sleazebags and people who stare at me very intensely, as if I have some particular message for them. As if I must know that they've been reading me, that this dyad or symbiosis of reader and writer has been so intense that I must somehow know about it.” PeopleIfsKnowsHumansLooksHas BeensReadingInterestingParticularTypeReaderMessagesTablesIntenseStaringDefiniteGatheringSessionSigningQueuesSymbiosis Author:Martin Amis
“Every single person is unlike anyone else. Therefore, in creating a portrait of someone... we must look carefully to catch that particular unique quality. In fact, we can neglect nothing because everything we select or do sends a message to the observer.” LooksPersonsFactsQualityParticularCreatingMessagesUniqueNeglectPortraitsObserversSelectSingle PersonPortraiture Author:Alton Tobey
“People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year.” PeopleIfsYearsFilmThreeParticularMessagesAdvantagePressesFestivalsCoverageCannesCannes Film Festival Author:Jean-Luc Godard
“The multiplier effect is a major feature of networks and flows. It arises regardless of the particular nature of the resource, be it goods, money, or messages.” EffectsParticularMajorsMessagesResourcesFlowAriseFeaturesGoods Book:Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity Source: Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity
“I do not believe in meaningless coincidences. I believe every coincidence is a message, a clue about a particular facet of our lives that requires our attention.” BelieveI BelieveAttentionOur LivesParticularMessagesMeaninglessBelieve In MeCoincidenceClueFacets Author:Deepak Chopra
“Any attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not more hopeless than the attempt to have a religion that shall be no religion in particular.... Every living and healthy religion has a marked idiosyncrasy. Its power consists in its special and surprising message and the bias which that revelation gives to life.” GivingSpeakLanguageAtheismSpecialParticularHealthyMessagesPositive AtheismRevelationsHopelessSurprisingBiasIdiosyncrasies Author:George Santayana
“Sometimes things you write are messages to yourself. Even though I think my stuff has a particular voice because you are who you are, it's good to switch it up, professionally and personally. The dare to be great situation is always going to be the one that matters the most.” ThinkingWritingSometimesMatterStuffVoiceSituationParticularMessagesWho You AreDareDare To Be Great Author:Cameron Crowe
“One particular debate that I have seen play out again and again is whether trans people who have more traditional gender expressions or who "pass" more should be the ones who are represented. A recent advocacy guide focused on advocating around trans health care access produced by the largest trans advocacy organization in the US instructs readers that advocacy will be more successful if the message is delivered by people who pass as non-trans men and women.” PeopleIfsMenShouldPlayCareSuccessfulParticularExpressionReaderMessagesMen And WomenOrganizationGenderFocusedGuidesAccessDebateTraditionalHealth CareAgain And AgainTransAdvocatingAdvocacy Author:Dean Spade
“The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bomb.” ParticularMessagesImportanceMediumsBombsAtomic Bomb Author:Marshall McLuhan
“It is commonplace of all religious thought that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and live for a while in the wilderness. If he is of proper sort, he will return with a message. It may not be a message from the god he set out to seek but even if he has failed in that particular, he will have had a vision or seen a marvel and these are always worth listening to or thinking about.” IfsThinkingMenMayReligiousVisionParticularHe ManListeningReturnMessagesFellowsSeekingInsightWildernessCommonplace Author:Loren Eiseley
“To me, music and songwriting is... part of the intriguing thing is the creative process; you know, the creative thought process. Relying on that... there is some sort of inspiration there and you can't always put your finger on where it comes from. So, it's always been important for me to have my own thing and, even though I'm inspired by and influenced by many different musicians and styles of music, I was very determined early on to have my own thing. So when I sit down to write I don't necessarily have a particular narrative or message in mind. I'm interested in language and in words.” KnowsWritingMindImportantDifferentInspirationLanguageProcessMy OwnCreativeStyleParticularMessagesMusicianFingersInspiredDeterminedNarrativeSongwritingCreative ProcessIntriguingThought ProcessCreative Thought Author:Page Hamilton
“When you're writing, at least when I'm writing, I don't think about themes and I try not to sermonize with any particular message.” ThinkingWritingTryingParticularMessagesTheme Author:Ransom Riggs
“Google has you at a very specific mental state that is, looking for something. And what they've always been able to say is, we deliver your message at the exact time someone is, say, looking for fishing hooks or looking for marriage counseling or looking for a lawyer for a particular problem. And here we have our customers telling you what is in their heart and soul. It's something that, you know, advertisers have wanted for decades.” KnowsHeartSoulStatesProblemAbleWantedParticularMessagesCustomersDecadesLawyerFishingGoogleHookHeart And SoulCounselingAdvertisers Author:Tim Wu
“You asked me about Queensland in particular and regional Queensland where our message of jobs and growth is resonating strongly because that's what is on people's mind, and when the election results are in on 2nd July, I'm confident that that message will be translated into the ballot box.” PeopleMindJobsGrowthResultsParticularMessagesElectionBoxesJulyBallotsQueenslandResonatingElection Results Author:George Brandis
“I think Dirk [Gently] thinks that he's a brilliant detective, but he's the worst detective, ever. He does have this particular skill, which I suppose you might call a really bad superpower because it's just not very helpful. He is able to sense the connections between things and he's nearly always right, but the problem is that he never knows what to do with any of those messages that he receives from the universe, so he just acts on things and gets himself into terrible trouble, all the time.” ThinkingKnowsDoeProblemMightAbleUniverseTroubleWorstParticularTerribleSkillsMessagesConnectionsBrilliantHelpfulDetectivesSuperpowerDirk Gently Author:Samuel Barnett
“Here in particular the idea of contextual communication - i.e. communicating the right message, at the right time to the right audience - seems to generate an increasing effect on the consumer in a manipulative way.” WayIdeasSeemsAudienceEffectsParticularCommunicationMessagesCommunicateConsumersRight TimeManipulative Author:Martin Lindstrom
“What is demanded by God today is not a message to a particular people alone, a message is demanded for the whole of humanity who has suffered under the 6,000-year rule of Satan (or "Shaitan"); whose evil is not confined to himself but is spread to all the corners of the Earth.” PeopleYearsWholeTodayEarthHumanityEvilParticularMessagesCornersSpreadSatanConfined Author:Louis Farrakhan
“There's this message to comedians in particular, that you shouldn't write it, and a television writer should write it. And that's a prevailing conventional wisdom that I think is really wrong. That's not to say that television writers aren't great, but I think that the belief that some comedy writer's going to be able to capture your voice is naive.” ThinkingShouldWritingAbleBeliefVoiceComedyTelevisionParticularMessagesComedianCaptureConventionalNaivePrevailingConventional Wisdom Author:Jim Gaffigan
“To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people.” PeopleVoiceChallengesAliveParticularMessagesPreacherPreachingAlarms Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am still plugging away and not the ghost of one so far, so it begins to look as though, unless I suddenly hit mid-season form in my eighties, humanity will remain a message short.” YearsLooksStillsWantedFormHumanityParticularMessagesSeasonsGhostEighty Author:P. G. Wodehouse
“There isn’t any particular relationship between the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep. There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.” LoveBookEndsMomentsAgeBeautifulCausesMoralMiddleEffectsProduceParticularMessagesDepthChosenSuspenseOne TimeSurprisingMarvelousSlaughterhouse FiveBeginning Middle And EndSlaughterhouse 5Slaughter House 5Slaughter House Five Book:SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE