Quotes of: Event Keyword

In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

Jeff Goodell

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.

Robert Harris

The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.

Vaclav Klaus

I definitely only want to do charity work that I'm hands-on involved in. I don't want to get a dress on and go to a stupid event.

Erin Heatherton

Supernatural fiction contains its own generic borderland: a neutral territory, which Tzvetan Todorov calls 'the fantastic,' between 'the marvelous' and 'the uncanny.' According to Todorov, 'The fantastic is that hesitation experienced by a person who...

The Haunted Dusk

Every morning brings us news of the globe, and yet we are poor in noteworthy stories. This is because no event comes to us without being already shot through with explanation. In other words, by now almost nothing that happens benefits storytelling; ...

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

We're living in momentous times, Garion. The events of a thousand years and more have all focused on these very days. The world, I'm told, is like that. Centuries pass when nothing happens, and then in a few short years events of such tremendous impo...

Pawn of Prophecy

If you are writing a story, miracles or abnormal events may be bad art, or they may not. If, for example, you are writing an ordinary realistic novel and have got your characters into a hopeless muddle, it would be quite intolerable if you suddenly c...

C.S. Lewis

Sometimes during our lives, the Universe ensures that we come back into the silence. If we don’t consciously stop in our busy lives, we may have perceptively negative things happen in our lives, sickness, change, events that force us to stop and be...

Inshan Meahjohn

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

Wade Boggs

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

Louis Kahn

Revolution is not a one time event.

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

A good book is an event in my life.

The Red and the Black

Stress comes from the way you relate to events or situations.

Zen and the Art of Happiness

I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.

Billie Jean King

Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun.

Jude Law

I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.

Oksana Baiul

In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event.

Peggy Fleming

The threat from extreme weather events highlights the importance of investing in preparedness.

Sheri Fink

There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games.

Shannon Miller

A movie that costs only $1.6 million doesn't have to be a cultural event to turn a profit.

Steven Soderbergh