“If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.” PeopleIfsWholeSituationDarknessRecordsHappenedBurningGloaming Author:Thom Yorke
“Amy Winehouse: Did she invent white soul? Wearing a beehive? No. But she did something brand new and fresh, altogether as a package, and you see who's in her wake, from the Duffys to the Lana Del Reys. Adele selling 20 million records? That would not have happened if Amy Winehouse was alive.” IfsSoulWhiteMillionsRecordsAliveHappenedSellingBrandsPackagesBrand NewAmyBeehives Author:Jack White
“The point of the daily diary exercise is not to record what you already know about what happened to you in the last 24 hours. Instead, it’s an invitation to the back of your mind to come forward and reveal to you the perishable images about the day you didn’t notice you noticed at all.” KnowsMindLastsHoursRecordsHappenedExerciseInvitationsDiaries Author:Lynda Barry
“It's hard if you're just touring constantly. It's like, "What am I going to write about? I'm in the van, I'm playing another show..." I'm still writing about heartbreak that happened years ago. I don't see the point of writing and putting out another record until I can do something else.” IfsWritingYearsStillsI CanHardShowsCan DoRecordsHappenedYears AgoVansTouringCan Do Something Author:Sharon Van Etten
“What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.” HumansRecordsRightsHappenedPrisonHuman RightsIraqConventionsViolationMonstrousGenevaAbu GhraibGeneva ConventionViolation Of Human Rights Author:Carlos Fuentes
“I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really poor! If you look at the whole history of science fiction, what people have said is going to happen, what writers have said is going to happen, and what actually happened - it's terrible.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksSaidImportantWholeHappensPoorFictionRecordsHappenedTerribleCapacityImportant ThingsScience FictionHistory Of Science Author:William Gibson
“I don't really know that this story has a whole lot of things happen in it. It doesn't really. It's just a record of how things were in my life during this last winter. I guess things happened, but nothing out of the ordinary.” KnowsWholeStoriesHappensLastsRecordsHappenedOrdinaryWinterThings Happen Author:Markus Zusak
“I gave up accounting. I went in for about six months writing ad copy. I was fired from that, and then another guy and I did a kind of poor man's Bob and Ray kind of syndicated radio show. Then I decided to stick it out and see what happened. I'd give it a year, a year became two years, and then two years became three years, and then along came the record album.” MenGivingWritingYearsKindTwoShowsGuyThreePoorRecordsComedyHappenedMonthsSixDecidedSticksRadioAlbumsTwo YearsCopiesRaysAdsThree YearsBobSix MonthsGave UpOther GuysAccountingPoor Man Author:Bob Newhart
“No! Not for a second! I immediately began to think how this could have happened. And I realized that the clock was old and was always breaking. That the clock probably stopped some time before and the nurse coming in to the room to record the time of death would have looked at the clock and jotted down the time from that. I never made any supernatural connection, not even for a second. I just wanted to figure out how it happened.” ThinkingMadeWantedRoomsRecordsHappenedAtheismFiguresConnectionsPositive AtheismI RealizedClockNurse Author:Richard P. Feynman
“Liberals correctly perceive the Reagan record as their most dangerous enemy. Why? Because what happened during the 1980s - prosperity at home the longest period of peacetime growth in this nation's history, strength abroad - directly contradicts every liberal belief. Bill Clinton has confused many about the 1980s and the Reagan legacy. His patently false mantra states, "The rich got richer, the poor got poorer. The rich didn't pay their fair share, etc."” StatesHomeBeliefNationsGrowthPoorPayEnemyRichRecordsHappenedShareDangerousDangerPeriodsFairsBillsClintonProsperityLegacyPerceiveConfusedEtcMantrasFair Share Author:Rush Limbaugh
“And then computers got to a point where you could just record directly into them. So when that happened, funny enough, I thought, Right, I'm going to learn how to do this because then I can understand that part.” I CanEnoughRecordsHappenedComputer Author:Thom Yorke
“(Barry) Bonds' records must remain part of baseball's history. His hits happened. Erase them and there will be discrepancies in baseball's bookkeeping about the records of the pitchers who gave them up. George Orwell said that in totalitarian societies, yesterday's weather could be changed by decree. Baseball, indeed America, is not like that. Besides, the people who care about the record book - serious fans - will know how to read it. That may be Bonds' biggest worry.” PeopleKnowsMaySaidBookCareAmericaWorryKnow HowRecordsHappenedFansChangedSeriousBaseballYesterdayWeatherWho CaresPitcherEraseDecreeWell SaidDiscrepanciesBookkeeping Author:George Will
“I'm a curious guy. I can't turn away from an investigative story, when it comes to the forensic analysis. I've done 33 dives, to the titanic wreck site. I've spent over 50 hours piloting robotic vehicles at that wreck trying to piece together what happened during the disaster. How the ship broke up, comparing the historical record with the forensic record. Documentaries are kind of my new life. I love documentary filmmaking.” TryingKindI CanDoneStoriesTogetherGuyTurnsHoursRecordsPiecesHappenedHistoricalDisasterShipsCuriousBrokeCompareAnalysisVehicleFilmmakingSiteDocumentariesNew LifeWrecksRoboticsBroke UpOver 50Forensics Author:James Cameron
“In the dream of approaching forty I saw myself as about to die and realized that I was no longer myself, but a creature inhabited entirely by parasites, as a caterpillar is occupied by the grubs of the ichneumon fly. Gin, whisky, sloth, fear, guilt, tobacco, had made themselves my inquilines; alcohol sloshed about within, while tendrils of melon and vine grew out of ears and nostrils; my mind was a worn gramophone record, my true self was such a ruin as to seem non-existent, and all this had happened in the last three years.” YearsMindMadeSelfDreamSeemsLastsDiesThreeRecordsSawsHappenedGrewCreaturesEarsGuiltAlcoholRuinsFortyThree YearsWornTrue SelfTobaccoVinesSlothParasitesGinCaterpillarsWhiskyMelons Author:Cyril Connolly
“I've done everything. I've sung, done records, plays... It just so happened my first professional job was as a dancer. I've done the whole shebang, darling. But dancing was my first professional engagement in 1974. I got paid for it, so that was it, my vocation. But my parents weren't keen. They wanted me to be an accountant in Italy. Or a lawyer. They were furious. I had to run away. I had to leave the country.” FirstsCountryDonePlayWholeRunningWantedJobsParentRecordsHappenedPaidDancingLawyerDancerEngagementRunning AwayVocationDarlingFuriousAccountants Author:Bruno Tonioli
“If Senator Rubio were doing his job and in Congress more, he might know that the program 'phone records of a potential terrorist cause' continues. It's been ongoing for the last six months. So the Paris tragedy, this tragedy happened while we were still doing bulk collection, all bulk collection. Also in France, they have a program a thousand-fold more invasive, collecting all of the data of all of the French.” IfsKnowsStillsMightJobsLastsCausesRecordsHappenedMonthsThousandSixProgramTragedyCongressPhonesTerroristDataFranceParisCollectionsSenatorsSix MonthsOngoingFoldsCollecting Author:Rand Paul
“I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don't regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning.” DifferentFallBoysRecordsFourHappenedRegretBandTrackAlbumsPlanningSoloDifferent DirectionsDelayedDon't RegretFall Out Boy Author:Patrick Stump
“Seeing that the 97's are a democracy through and through, inevitably, some of these tons of songs I write will get vetoed. The first time that happened (and every time thereafter), I consoled myself with the thought that sooner or later I'd make a solo record” WritingFirstsSongDemocracyRecordsSeeingHappenedFirst TimeSooner Or LaterSolo Author:Rhett Miller