“18th September, 1970; Jimi Hendrix dies. I'm still on the football team when I get the news. So I take my helmet off and confront the coach to tell him I'm quitting the team. In a moment of brilliance he gives me one look and says "OK".” GivingLooksStillsMomentsDiesTeamFootballNewsGive MeCoachesQuittingSeptemberBrillianceFootball TeamHelmetHendrix Author:Joe Satriani
“Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands of messages and voices bombard us from the moment we wake, fighting for our attention. All we see and hear, all day long, is news. And most of it is bad.” LongMomentsFightingSocialVoiceAttentionMediaCarTelevisionMessagesNewsRadioSocial MediaPocketsCyclesDesks Author:Joseph Prince
“It is very difficult to be under the microscope every moment of every day. Everything that leaves your mouth becomes this sensationalized news story, no matter what your intentions were when you first said it, so it becomes overwhelming.” FirstsSaidMatterMomentsStoriesDifficultNewsMouthsNo Matter WhatIntentionOverwhelmingMicroscopesNews Stories Author:Megan Fox
“It's an important moment [win an Emmy]. I just feel like I want it to happen tonight, either for myself or Viola [Davis] so we can get past it, so it's not big news anymore. I mean, it is 2015. We have a black president.” WantFeelsMeanImportantMomentsBigsHappensPastBlackPresidentNewsTonightViolaImportant MomentsBig News Author:Taraji P. Henson
“For what is it that angels do? They bring us good news. They open our eyes to moments of wonder, to lovely possibilities, to exemplary people, to the idea that God is here in our midst. They lift our hearts and give us wings.” PeopleGivingHeartIdeasMomentsEyeWonderPossibilityNewsAngelWingsLovelyLiftsMidstGood NewsExemplary Author:Joan Anderson
“At the moment I'm so exhausted that I feel like cutting my throat, so the next news masy well be that I am across the river and under the trees: what is the meaning and purpose of life? Death.” FeelsWellsMomentsPurposeNextCuttingTreeNewsRiversPurpose Of LifeThroatExhaustedLife DeathWhat Is The Meaning Author:Delmore Schwartz
“In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ.” MomentsRememberChristSinNewsGood NewsCounting Author:Tullian Tchividjian
“It was a staggering moment when I first heard the news. Lennon was a most talented man and above all, a gentle soul. John and his colleagues set a high standard by which contemporary music continues to be measured.” MenFirstsSoulMomentsHeardNewsStandardsContemporaryGentleColleaguesStaggeringHigh StandardsLennonContemporary Music Author:Frank Sinatra
“The debate was a chance for senator [Bernie] Sanders to have a game-changing moment to recapture the news cycle and build momentum going into 2016 and he took his best shot at having a moment.” MomentsGamesChanceNewsShotsDebateCyclesSenatorsMomentumBest Shot Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“At the moment we are facing a whole collection of difficult to forecast developments from the situation in China and the oil-price crash to the worrying news from some banks in Europe and the US. All of that is linked: Worldwide company debt is high and there is a lot of money in circulation. That is why necessary structural reforms are not being made.” MadeWholeMomentsDifficultCompanySituationWorryDevelopmentNewsEuropeChinaDebtOilReformCollectionsLots Of MoneyCrashLinkedCirculationForecastsOil Price Author:Wolfgang Schauble
“It's certainly an interesting moment to try to talk about, 'cause you could make a great show about the police force right now, with all that's happening in the news and Ferguson and all of it.” TryingMomentsShowsForceCausesInterestingRight NowNewsHappeningsPolicePolice ForceFerguson Author:Ethan Hawke
“For example, because I'm a lapsed geologist, I followed the eruption of Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 in great detail, amassing a huge number of links to news articles, blog posts, scientific papers, web cams, video and photos. That archive came to the attention of Chatham House, and they then commissioned me to research the way in which the media responded to the ash cloud crisis. I think that's the only time that my degree and my career have fully intersected, and it really was a lovely moment!” ThinkingWayMomentsHouseNumbersAttentionCareersMediaExampleHugeDegreesPaperNewsResearchCrisisCloudsDetailsLovelyVideoPostsLinksArticlesAshesPapersOnly TimeBlogsVolcanoesArchivesEruptionGeologistHuge Numbers Author:Suw Charman-Anderson
“My wife made me watch this documentary about the Iraq War, and there was a really powerful moment where they followed some civilian whose family had been killed. This was 5 or 10 minutes of this woman talking, and it was extremely arresting. You realize how you never hear from the person on the receiving end of a war without a reporter stepping in to compartmentalize the story. Usually they're just a few shots at the end of a news report, wailing and screaming at a funeral.” PersonsMadeWarEndsMomentsStoriesRealizingPowerfulTalkingWatchesWifeMinutesNewsShotsIraqMy WifeReportsFuneralReceivingReportersDocumentariesCiviliansIraq WarWailingReally PowerfulArresting Author:Charlie Brooker
“Some of the biographies [of princess Margaret] were really sensationalist, News of the World sorts, but they were great because they also gave first and secondhand accounts of her at home. The butlers come forward and give little moments, some of which you discard and some which ring somehow true and you use.” WorldGivingFirstsLittlesMomentsUseHomeNewsAccountsRingsPrincessBiographiesButlersLittle Moments Author:Vanessa Kirby
“In 1996 or 1997, out of nowhere, Fox News comes on and it's on channel 360 on Direct TV, and out of 300 million Americans, on every single night, anywhere from 3 to 5 million watch it, we're talking about at no more than 2 percent of the American public is watching Fox at any given moment. Yet, ABC, CBS, NBC, the New York Times, the institutional left, CNN, MSNBC, the record companies, Hollywood, all seem to be committed towards aligning their minds and their money and their other resources to try to shut up Fox News.” TryingMindMomentsSeemsNightLeftGivenCompanyTalkingWatchesMillionsRecordsNew YorkTvsNewsPercentResourcesDirectHollywoodCommittedShut UpFoxesNew York TimesRecord CompaniesCnnFox NewsNbc Author:Andrew Breitbart
“My big "double-aha" moment came while anchoring the national news at CBS News. It was at the height of the recession, and on top of the usual negative stories, my newscasts became full of especially heart wrenching stories of people losing their homes, jobs, and retirement savings. Starting the morning off like that could leave even the most optimistic person feeling helpless and hopeless. The lightning bolt came when we changed how we talked about the negative.” PeopleHeartPersonsMomentsStoriesFeelingsHomeBigsJobsMorningChangedNewsLosingNegativeStartingOptimisticSavingHeightHopelessRetirementUsualLightningHelplessSavingsRecessionsBoltsHeart WrenchingLightning BoltsOptimistic PersonAha Moment Author:Michelle Gielan
“I think it's just about the machine is about reporting the news, and then reporting the news about the news, and then having those moments where they sit around and go, "Are we reporting the news correctly? I think we are." And then they go back to the and the cycle just sort of continues.” ThinkingMomentsNewsMachinesCycles Author:Jon Stewart
“I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload a video clip, instead of just a moment of fame for your pseudonym, you'll get 50 bucks. The first time that happens, you'll realise that you're a full-class citizen. You have the potential to make money from the system.” WorldFirstsMomentsStoriesHappensClassCitizensFameNewsFirst TimeVideoMaking MoneyRealisingCommentBlogsBucksQuirkyClipNews StoriesPseudonymsVideo Clips Author:Jaron Lanier
“I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.” PeopleLooksMomentsHelpingStoriesMightInterestShareNewsInsightRecognitionReportsSparksGardeningViewersHelping PeopleHindsightTelling StoriesNbcInterpersonalNbc News Author:Jane Pauley
“The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.” KnowsInspirationalBelieveHas BeensImportantMomentsSuccessGreatnessTaughtNewsAbundanceQuestsGood NewsGears Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.” WayNeedsHas BeensMadeMomentsPastPoliticalPoliticsPartyOpinionRecordsMinutesExpressionNewsEvidenceCleanPredictionsDocumentariesItemsUp To DatePalimpsest Book:Animal Farm and 1984 Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumphs and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside. One moment, you'd start to call her to tell her a snippet of news or to vent about your awful day before realizing you did not have that right anymore; the next, you could not remember the digits of her phone number.” MomentsRememberNextRealizingDifferencesNumbersShareMinutesLoversNewsLosingPhonesObviousAwfulIntimacyTriumphDistinctionFlawsPhone NumbersFatal FlawsAwful Days Book:Handle with Care: A Novel Source: Handle with Care: A Novel
“There are times when one cannot accept facts for fear of shattering one's being. As I listened to Ian's news, all of Digit's life, since my first meeting with him as a playful little ball of black fluff ten years earlier, passed through my mind. From that moment on, I came to live within an insulated part of myself.” YearsMindFirstsLittlesMomentsFactsBlackAcceptingTenNewsBallsMeetingsThat MomentShatteringFluff Author:Dian Fossey
“I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!” WantLoveLifeHeartLongSaidMomentsRoomsImagineWonderfulBrokenFineTerribleRight NowNewsBlindFilledOptimisticLong LifeGus Author:John Green
“....called to give you the good news. I asked our daughter to marry me and she accepted. Congratulations, I will officially your son-in-law. Now, do you want me to call you zmum straightaway, or wait until after the wedding?" I lew through the ir in a dive tht finally tackled him, wrenching the phone away. Bones was laughing so hard he had to breathe to get it all out. "Mom? Are you there? Mom.....?" "You might want to give her a moment, Kitten. I believe she fainted.” WantGivingBelieveHardMomentsMightLawI BelieveWaitingLaughingSonMomNewsDaughterPhonesBonesBreatheAcceptedWant MeGood NewsCongratulationsIn-lawsKittenYou Want MeOur DaughterIrsYour SonMarry MeDo You Want MeSon-in-lawLaughing So Hard Author:Jeaniene Frost
“I thought I was growing wings— it was a cocoon. I thought, now is the time to step into the fire— it was deep water. Eschatology is a word I learned as a child: the study of Last Things; facing my mirror—no longer young, the news—always of death, the dogs—rising from sleep and clamoring and howling, howling.... ("Seeing For a Moment")” ChildrenMomentsLastsYoungWaterSleepStepsStudyFireGrowingSeeingDogNewsMirrorsWingsRisingCocoonsEschatologyDeep Water Book:Oblique Prayers: Poetry Source: Oblique Prayers: Poetry
“The news of the discovery spread fast all over the country, and inquisitive enquiries mingled with congratulations from this moment became the daily programme.” CountryMomentsNewsDiscoverySpreadCongratulationsProgrammesInquisitiveEnquiry Author:Howard Carter
“When "news stories" are broken, do we not expect a certain amount of fact-checking or source-checking? One has to ask if this falls under the guise of sloppy reporting or deception as a source of spin. We seem to accept a certain amount of deception and we seem to be helpless to doing anything about it, as illustrated so clearly by where we are right now in this moment in history.” IfsMomentsFactsStoriesSeemsCertainFallAsksAcceptingMediaAcceptanceSourceBrokenAmountRight NowNewsDeceptionHelplessGuiseSloppyNews Stories Author:Sheryl Crow