“I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted several times a day, like a Hare Krishna mantra, to encourage penetration into the soul: Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which, if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again, or perhaps any twig with any property that we would care to call consciousness.” IfsHumansLittlesSoulEndsMightCareGrowsResultsConsciousnessProgressRevolutionMessagesRegardPropertyFollowingSeedsTinyStatementsCosmicPredictableKrishnaMantrasPedestalEnd ResultsHaresSmashingTwigsPenetrationAfterthoughtFortuitousHare Krishna Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“We should consider the possibility that many, and perhaps even all of Jesus' hell-fire or end-of-the-universe statements refer not to postmortem [after death] judgment but to the very historic consequences of rejecting his kingdom message of reconciliation and peacemaking. The destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 67-70 seems to many people to fulfill much of what we have traditionally understood as hell.” PeopleShouldEndsSeemsUniverseJesusHellFirePossibilityJudgmentMessagesUnderstoodConsequenceDestructionStatementsKingdomsHistoricReconciliationAfter DeathJerusalemRejectingPeacemakingHell Fire Author:Brian D. McLaren
“Poetry is music though, unfortunately, not all music is poetry. Because music has other carriers to take its message - beats, lyrics, singers, bass players - anyone in music can rise to make a major statement but in poetry there are only words to do the work. And they do sometimes have to sweat.” SometimesPlayerMajorsMessagesMusic IsBeatsSingersStatementsPoetry IsSweatBassCarrierBass Players Author:Nikki Giovanni
“A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.” ActorsMessagesStatementsMovieProvocation Author:Ang Lee
“Part of what we're trying to do is lay out what really happened. For example, I've been trying to get across that the intelligence leadership did not just keep the country in the dark. They actively misled the country on key issues. When you have someone who heads the NSA saying we don't hold data at all on US citizens, that's one of the most misleading statements I believe that's ever been made about surveillance policy. And I think that now we're starting to get that message across.” ThinkingTryingBelieveMadeCountryI BelieveDarkIssuesHappenedPolicyExampleKeysCitizensMessagesLaysStartingStatementsDataSurveillanceMisleadNsaMisled Author:Ron Wyden
“Approaching any movie with a three in the title you know you are not going to get a political polemic. You are not going to get some sort of political statement or ultra-deep message.” KnowsPoliticalThreeMessagesStatementsTitlesUltrasPolemics Author:J. J. Abrams
“To translate kinesics or paralinguistic messages into words is likely to introduce gross falsification due not merely to the human propensity for trying to falsify statements about "feelings" and relationship and to the distortions which arise whenever the products of one system of coding are dissected onto the premises of another, but especially to the fact that all such translation must give to the more or less unconscious and involuntary message the appearance of conscious intent.” GivingTryingHumansFactsFeelingsProductsMessagesConsciousAppearanceDuesAriseStatementsUnconsciousIntroducingTranslateGrossTranslationsPremisesDistortionPropensityInvoluntaryFalsification Author:Greg Bear
“'Climb Every Mountain' is a beautiful statement of philosophy. Critics may think 'The Sound of Music' is saccharine, but I think it's profound. The message, that we can't accommodate evil, is just as important today.” ThinkingMayImportantPhilosophyTodayBeautifulEvilSoundMountainMessagesMusic IsProfoundCriticsStatementsClimbsAccommodateSound Of Music Author:Jon Voight
“The key to terror, the key to terrorism, is not the act - but the fear of the act. That is why bin Laden and his deputies and his imitators are forever putting together videotaped statements and releasing virtual infomercials with dire threats and heart-stopping warnings. But why is the Republican Party imitating them? Bin Laden puts out what amounts to a commercial of fear; The Republicans put out what is unmistakable as a commercial of fear. The Republicans are paying to have the messages of bin Laden and the others broadcast into your home.” HeartHomeTogetherPartyForeverKeysAmountRepublicanMessagesThreatTerrorTerrorismStatementsWarningRepublican PartyStoppingBin LadenImitatingImitatorDeputiesInfomercials Author:Keith Olbermann
“I know that an important message is not a novel. To say that we should all be kind to our neighbors is an important statement; it's not a novel.” KnowsShouldKindImportantNovelMessagesNeighborStatementsBe Kind Author:Chinua Achebe
“Each time I have the urge in me to make a statement or send a message or to issue a manifesto, I don't bother to write a novel. I write an article and publish it in a popular newspaper, or I make a television appearance.” WritingNovelIssuesTelevisionMessagesAppearanceNewspapersStatementsBotherUrgesArticlesPublishManifestos Author:Amos Oz