Quotes of: Happening Keyword

Humbert Humbert: Well, it's nothing, but... she had an accident. Clare Quilty: Oh gee, she had an accident? That's really terrible, I mean, fancy a fellow's wife having... a normal guy having... his wife having an accident like that. W-what happened ...

Lolita

John Bender: Don't you ever talk about my friends. You don't know any of my friends. You don't look at any of my friends. And you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends. So you just stick to the things you know: shopping, nail po...

The Breakfast Club

The Dreaming is always; forever... it's always happening, and us mob, we're part of it, all the time, everywhere, and every-when too.

Crow Country

Just think of what would have happened to poor old Naaman if he had decided to dunk himself only once?

The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter

This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.

Cat's Eye

The terrible things that happen to us,” Tessa said slowly. “What we do with them...I think that’s what makes us artists.

The Color of Light

School overpopulates students’ minds with too much of what happened yesterday; seldom with what the students can do today, or, tomorrow.

The Confessions of a Misfit

But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

The ones who do not believe, Dr.Mukherjee, think like me; just because we don’t know about it, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

The Covert Perspective

The common factor in all our experiences is wakeful consciousness which turns what happens into an experience or a meaningful reality.

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

Light and dark ain't supposed to mix. They're like broccoli and chocolate - just nasty when you put them together - but that appears to be what's happening with you

Cursed

There. She had thanked Sebastian. She waited for a bolt of lightning to shoot out of the clouds and striker her dead. But nothing happened.

City of Lost Souls

As far as I’m concerned, this is the worst thing that’s happened since I found out why Magnus was banned from Peru.

City of Lost Souls

There is no ME without books; they’re everything I remember from childhood, from maturity … All that’s happened to me has been coloured, permanently, by my reading.

Cosmo

Oh Julie, wouldn’t I know if you were dead? Wouldn’t I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?

Code Name Verity

Joy is something we can’t manufacture. Joy happens to us not because of us.

Dancing with God: First Year Thoughts on the Loss of My Daughter

...it always makes me feel good about myself when I've dressed appropriately. It happens so rarely.

Don't Kill The Messenger

The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.' That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.

Denial

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

Dreamland

Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?

Death of a Salesman

Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.

Dust