Zitat des Tages über Prod:
A commander in chief with military experience might be able to prod a conservative military into thinking more imaginatively.
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
Lawsuits prod companies to make their products safer.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
I didn't feel like gymnastics were part of The Cars. I certainly philosophically didn't want to prod the audience to react to anything. To me, it was more like negative theater. We didn't really talk to the audience. I didn't see that being a part of this band.
By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.
I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.
I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.
Whenever there's a big story with vast potential to get social media content and find out what's happening, your first object is to prod into that and then test it to see whether it's valid. If you don't do the second part, you're basically a bilge pump.
As a writer of historical fiction, I believe you don't want to fictionalize gratuitously; you want the fictional aspects to prod and pressure the history into new and exciting reactions.
When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They're the ones that are really happy.
Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot.
