Quotes About Event

Boston – November 1998

The smaller man said again, 'See the Buddha in everyone.' How different, I thought, that is from Brakhage, who says it is the artist's business to discover the particularity that distinguishes you from all others. Your virtue. Your vision that makes you separate from others. I remembered that he quoted Robert Duncan. 'Soul is not universal. It is a created-creative event.

Language is a terrible, cold thing, I think. One may recount an event, calmly selecting the most suitable words, that to remember without benefit of ink is almost beyond bearing. We accept the counterfeit and are thankful, for it spares us the awful weight of our lives.

He tried to make me wear a suit." "Why?" Sissy asked dryly. "Are you planning on going to a funeral after our date?

Which idiot put the GOP convention the same time as 'Burning Man' in Nevada? Is there time to change this?

It feels good when your hometown supports you, and Macon's always done that with us. Every time we come here, it's an event - which is nice.

Family time was very difficult when my girls were little, but I never missed a birthday, I was there for every major event.

Dates that come around every year help us measure progress in our lives. One annual event, New Year's Day, is a time of reflection and resolution.

The event of history is hidden in time.

There is appointed time for every sacred event under the sun.

One of my favorite memories was one time Prince picked me up and said we were going to Michael Jordan's birthday party.

Because Lambda executes in a custom environment managed by AWS, it can be difficult to work through this cycle. Fortunately, a number of open source third-party libraries have sprung up to fill the need for testing. Ultimately, these tools mimic the "event" and "context" objects, along with their properties and method to simulate the environment in which Lambda functions launch once uploaded.

Longfellow, as he climbed up, hoped he would not be asked to speak in front of all the guests during the banquet, but if he were, he would thank his friends for bringing him along.

In any event he had to sleep in the tube that night

I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go. --at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon

We were expecting maybe a hundred people at the park," Jeremiah said, "but right now they're counting at least five hundred. They asked us to slow down so they have time to deal with the overflow.

A blown brain will reach for any sideshow to dodge the main event.

It was big enough for five village dances and a riot.

SUPERNOVAS AND COMETS (1572—1577)

Amplification created an entirely new kind of political event: mass rallies oriented around individual speakers.

The human mind tends to estimate the probability of an event from the ease with which it can recall examples, and scenes of carnage are more likely to be beamed into our homes and burned into our memories than footage of people dying of old age.

New information reduces our ignorance and changes the probability. If that sounds mystical or paradoxical, think about the probability that a coin I just flipped landed heads. For you, it's .5. For me, it's 1 (I peeked). Same event, different knowledge, different probability.

Moving" and "changing" are not enough grounds for the mind to construe an event in a particular way. It also cares about finer-grained concepts like forcing versus enabling a force, causing versus letting, and before-and-after versus at-the-same-time.

It's not just the salience of a horrific event that stokes the terror. Our emotions are far more engaged when the cause of a tragedy is malevolent intent rather than accidental misfortune.