Quotes of: Big-event Keyword

Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.

I Have the Right to Destroy Myself

that a child is not an event, alleged or otherwise, a mistake or accident or crime. . . he is by definition more than this, sum rather than division, a living promissory note.

Northwest Corner

Every human character appears only once in the history of human beings. And so does every event of love.

Love and Exile

The leader goes also to the less traditional networking meetings. The manager participates in networking events organized and promoted.

Leader versus Manager

Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!

Logicomix: An epic search for truth

Eyes can't sense a smell of rain before it drops. Mind can't see event of future before it happens.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

But I don't believe coincidences are chance events. I think they're the times we happen to see the mysterious pattern connecting everything.

Saltwater Moons

Perhaps forgiveness wasn’t a singular event, but a progression, or better, a dance that took some figuring before you could perform the steps.

Talking to the Dead

Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.

Oliver Twist

There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.

Pattern Recognition

If that was the last event of the night, it would have made a terrible ending. It was just the beginning, though.

Rite Of Passage: Memoirs of a Survivor of the Pickup Community

Two guys, a goat, and a ghost: A love story based on true events that may or may not be false. Who doesn’t love a good goat story?

This Book is Not FOR SALE

The event happened on my birthday. I don’t remember the date, I only know it was my birthday because there was no cake or presents.

This Book Has No Title

How strange it is, sometimes, which conversations or events stays with us while so much else melts as fast as April snow.

A Thousand Days in Venice

And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most.

Thomas Menino

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.

Benjamin Harrison

The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

Hunter S. Thompson

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

Nick Flynn

A high, positive vibration attracts positive events, people and situations; a low, negative vibration attracts more negativity.

The Magnet 28 Day Challenge

The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.

Marsha Norman

Events such as the 1991 Tailhook debacle have been seized upon and used by feminists to attack the military culture and bring about major concessions.

Jim Webb