Happened Quotes - Page 14

• I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity. I've really learned that, through surrender, the best experiences of my life have happened.

  Amy Adams

  People, Best Experiences, Spontaneity

  "Amy Adams Interview LEAP YEAR". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. January 3, 2010.

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• There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Education, Humor

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "Fit the Seventh" (radio program) (1978)

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• For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

  Douglas Adams

  Moments, Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, Happens

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.135, Pan Macmillan

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• I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert' is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened.

  Scott Adams

  Thinking, Voice, Long

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• My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.

  Adele

  Self Esteem, School, Kids

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• I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

  Madeleine Albright

  Country, War, Fighting

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• I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Feb 18, 2013

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• I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

  Tori Amos

  Stuff, Figures, Tragic

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• I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.

  Ian Anderson

  Art, School, Tree

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• I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people.

  Louie Anderson

  Hurt, Sorry, Responsibility

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• I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday. If I think too much, it kind of freaks me out.

  Pamela Anderson

  Moving, Reality, Thinking

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• A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.

  Julie Andrews

  Race, Wonderful, Fortune

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, Mind, Fiction

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• You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job, but it doesn't pay as much. And so, that's what's happened to us is that we have put in so much entitlement into our government, that we really have spoiled our citizenry and said you don't want the jobs that are available.

  Sharron Angle

  Jobs, Government, Unemployment

  "Rachel Maddow Show", www.today.com. June 30, 2010.

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• I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

  Francesca Annis

  Work, Home, Views

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• If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.

  Arthur Ashe

  Life, Sports, Failure

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• Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Country, America, Citizens

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• '1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.

  Margaret Atwood

  Names, Different, Wonder

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• Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips on the table has more leverage than everyone else. He can eventually outbluff everyone else and outraise everyone else at the table. That's what has happened and it needs to be corrected.

  Simon Baker

  Guy, Needs, Tables

  "Simon Baker Talks MARGIN CALL, Occupy Wall Street, THE MENTALIST, and His Thoughts on DOCTOR STRANGE". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. October 20, 2011.

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• I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.

  Lucille Ball

  Children, Thinking, Two

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• I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

  J. G. Ballard

  Fear, Interesting, Soul

  October 30, 1982 Interview, Re/Search, No. 8/9, 1984.

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• It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.

  Antonio Banderas

  Country, Money, Years

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• I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these kids that all of a sudden can't afford the ticket prices.

  Lester Bangs

  Children, Mean, Kids

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful to be alive! I'm just grateful to be here at all.

  Travis Barker

  Grateful, Alive, Crash

  "Former Blink-182 Drummer Travis Barker Says He's 'Thankful to Be Alive' After Plane Crash". www.foxnews.com. October 8, 2008.

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• I want to say that nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification to do that. I didn't just make it up. A lot of things were true and abusive and horrible things that happened to me that my father did.

  Roseanne Barr

  Father, Parent, Want

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