“But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.” ChildrenMotherMy OwnCasesSawsHappenedExampleParticularNewsResponseMistreated Author:Mercedes Ruehl
“At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a certain comment on that particular story, a certain bit of news that we saw on the television applies to that and we immediately assemble an idea of a story.” IdeasStoriesCertainBitsSawsTelevisionParticularNewsTablesNewspapersEncountersBreakfastCommentArticlesRecallsRecognise Author:Mark Z. Danielewski
“News is often dispersed as thoughtlessly and effectively as that pollen which the bees carry off (having no idea how powdery they are) when they are buzzing in search of their particular nectar.” IdeasParticularNewsNo IdeaBeesNectarPollen Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“As information technology becomes millions of times more powerful, any particular use of it becomes correspondingly cheaper. Thus, it has become commonplace to expect online services (not just news, but 21st century treats like search or social networking) to be given for free, or rather, in exchange for acquiescence to being spied on.” UseGivenSocialPowerfulMillionsTechnologyCenturyInformationParticularNewsTreatsOnline21st CenturyNetworkingCommonplaceCheaperSocial NetworkingInformation TechnologySocial NetworkAcquiescence Book:Who Owns the Future? Source: Who Owns the Future?
“What is will? It is a decision. It is a decision to be something. We really aren't anything in particular. We can be anything. That's the good news.” DecisionParticularNewsMysticismGood NewsPersonal Power Author:Frederick Lenz
“I've never really found inspiration for story ideas in the news, but I'd say it certainly affects our lives in so many ways. I would say that certainly the stories of the day appear in the work - I just have never gone so far as to say, well, this particular event could influence a plot of an entire book.” WayWellsBookIdeasStoriesInspirationFoundGoneOur LivesInfluenceEventsParticularNewsPlot Author:Michael Koryta
“Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment.” PleasureLibertyLaughingParticularNewsJournalistHypocrisyEditorsCommentDevotedReportersOutletsMockSatiricalFactual Author:Tom Rachman
“Older actors, and women in particular, are getting more opportunities. It pleases me, its very good news for us. They say that people are living longer, and maybe it's just that there's more of us out there.” PeopleActorsOpportunityParticularPleaseNewsVery GoodGood NewsPlease Me Author:Christopher Walken
“And also it's an ever-gathering process. If I pick up the Sporting News or some sports publication and there's an article on somebody and I think I might see that player, I will tear it out and put it in a file, and I have a looseleaf book so when we're going to play that particular team I take out all these clippings and things I pulled out, I go through them, highlight them, put them in the book.” IfsThinkingBookPlayMightSportsProcessPlayerTeamTearsParticularNewsPicksArticlesGatheringFilesPublicationHighlights Author:Vin Scully
“Trump has learned how to function in a world in which people now live in very separate realities, where they get their news from Facebook recommendations and believe in a particular set of facts. Others, who live in a different reality, know quite a different set of facts.” PeopleKnowsWorldBelieveDifferentFactsRealityParticularTrumpNewsFunctionRecommendationsDifferent Realities Author:Anne Applebaum
“To be sure, if you watch CNBC all day long you'll pick up some interesting news about particular companies and the economy as a whole. Unfortunately, to get to the useful information, you have to wade through reams of useless stuff, with little guidance on how to distinguish between the two.” IfsLittlesLongTwoWholeStuffInterestingCompanyWatchesEconomyInformationParticularNewsPicksUselessGuidanceWadeSome InterestingUseful InformationUseless Stuff Author:James Surowiecki
“The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters—there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void.... That’s why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of the presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window.” LittlesWould BeBreakStageMediaParticularNewsConsequenceWindowExcitingAbsolutesSilentDepthScreensAlternativesEmptinessSlipsVoidFlashInabilityFutilityAdvertsPresenterSquinting Author:Jean Baudrillard
“Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with TV news.” Would BeMilitaryParticularTvsNewsCamerasRadicalTv News Author:William Westmoreland