Quotes of: Things-happen Keyword

Jon Osterman: Miracles by they're definition are meaningless, only what can happen does happen.

Watchmen

Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.

Victoria Moran

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

Carol Ann Duffy

Miracles don't just happen on their own you know, you got to make them happen.

Life

Something like 'Much Ado' happens, and even 'Avengers' happens because of the years of building connections and doing the work and proving yourself.

Joss Whedon

When what you want doesn't happen, learn to want what does.

Arabian

Marcus couldn't believe it. Dead. A dead duck. OK, he'd been trying to hit it on the head with a piece of sandwich, but he tried to do all sorts of things, and none of them had ever happened before. He'd tried to get the highest score on the Stargaze...

About a Boy

One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts—just mere thoughts—are as powerful as electric batteries—as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get int...

The Secret Garden

I never really feel that I’m stuck. I actually think that people are never stuck, there’s no such thing as writers block, I think that theres terror that can silence you. But if you can think of it as a dynamic thing I mean a writers block, it’...

Tony Kushner

If you make art, people will talk about it. Some of the things they say will be nice, some won’t. You’ll already have made that art, and when they’re talking about the last thing you did, you should already be making the next thing. If bad revi...

Neil Gaiman

I cannot decide whether it is an illness or a sin, the need to write things down and fix the flowing world in one rigid form. Bear believed writing dulled the spirit, stilled some holy breath. Smothered it. Words, when they’ve been captured and imp...

Charles Frazier

[first lines] Niki Lauda: Twenty five drivers start every season in Formula One, and each year two of us die. What kind of person does a job like this? Not normal men, for sure. Rebels, lunatics, dreamers. People who are that desperate to make a mark...

Rush

love either happens or it doesn't; there is no twice, thrice or more to it; it just happens once, only once.

Birds in the Sky

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

Dana Fox

No one can take the shot for you.

Make It Happen, A Healthy, Competitive Approach to Achieving Personal Success

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Texts & Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries

Nearly everything that happened had happened before. The grand lesson of history.

Words of Radiance

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

Alice Munro

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

Omar Khayyam

I honestly really don't get aggravated at all. I just go with the flow. Whatever happens, happens.

Ryan Lochte

Don’t just hope the big idea is going to come, make it happen

Simon Dunn