Events Quotes - Page 14

• Working with Woody Allen is like filming Howard Hughes's will. It's a very mysterious and strange event. You never get a peek at the whole will.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Strange, Mysterious, Woody

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• The conquest of the outskirts of the atmosphere, and eventually space, is a revolutionary event, comparable only to the transition of the aquatic animals to the land in geologic times.

  Hubertus Strughold

  Animal, Space, Land

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• I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to see them both - L.A. and the London plague - as the same event. A time of crisis. A time when rich and poor get thrown together - and, suddenly one sees alternatives. I began to think about what happens when the containment of a presumed danger through the regimentation of space breaks down, such as when South-Central L.A. began to invade Beverly Hills.

  Naomi Wallace

  Reading, Thinking, Space

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• I want to seduce the audience. If they can go along for a ride they wouldn't ordinarily take, or don't even know they're taking, then they might see highly charged political issues in a new and unexpected way. . . . The theatre is now so afraid to face its social demons that we've given that responsibility over to film. But it will always be harder to deal with certain issues in the theatre. The live event - being watched by people as we watch - makes it seem all the more dangerous.

  Paula Vogel

  Responsibility, Issues, People

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• There's nothing personal in it [THE SKRIKER]. I'm not ever inclined with any of the plays to say, This is about that, because plays are about the whole event that they are. . . . I was certainly wanting to write a play about damage - damage to nature and damage to people, both of which there's plenty of about. To that extent, I was writing a play about England now.

  Caryl Churchill

  Writing, Play, People

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• Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls have fallen by mistake; but the sense of a stupendous self and an insignificant world may have its consolations. Lydgate's discontent was much harder to bear; it was the sense that there was a grand existence in thought and effective action lying around him, while his self was being narrowed into the miserable isolation of egoistic fears, and vulgar anxieties for events that might allay such fears.

  George Eliot

  Lying, Mistake, Self

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.597, Xist Publishing

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• The scientific method ... is nothing but the exclusion of subjective opinions as far as possible, by the devising of experiments where observation can give objective answers, yes or no, to questions whether events are causally connected.

  Gavin de Beer

  Science, Giving, Answers

  Sir Gavin De Beer (1956). “Science and the humanities”

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• Throughout the 64-day campaign, events and activities for peace and nonviolence take place all around the world, highlighting existing peacebuilding initiatives and inspiring new year-round activities for a more peaceful, nonviolent, just and sustainable world.

  Robert Alan Aurthur

  New Year, Years, Peaceful

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• The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out.

  Carl Sagan

  Everyday, Degrees, Graves

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.19, Ballantine Books

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• Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.

  George Santayana

  Character, Past, Order

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.380, 谷月社

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• When I'm wearing heels at events, my feet feel like they're sitting in pools of blood.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  High Heels, Blood, Feet

  "It’s OK To Hate Wearing High Heels (Just Take It From These Famous Women)" By Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2014.

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• A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.

  Seneca the Younger

  Adversity, Color, Benefits

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• You cannot create a thing-not a thought, an object, an event-no experience of any kind-which is outside of God's plan. For God's plan is for you to create anything-everything-whatever you want.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Purpose

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.54, Penguin

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• I tell you this: There is no coincidence, and nothing happens "by accident." Each event and adventure is called to your Self by your Self in order that you might create and experience Who You Really Are.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Adventure

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.47, Penguin

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• Technique isn't important. Technique is in the blood. Events and mood are more important than good light and the happening is what is important

  Andre Kertesz

  Light, Blood, Important

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• Death just shouldn't be a taxable event.

  Dennis Hastert

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• Aging and its evidence remain lifes most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.

  Joan Didion

  Matter, Aging, Evidence

  Joan Didion (2011). “Blue Nights”, p.134, Vintage

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• Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood.

  Marquis de Sade

  Husband, Pregnancy, Clouds

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• Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Frozen, Golden

  Robert A. Heinlein (2009). “The Rolling Stones”, p.154, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

  Patrick Ness

  Crazy, Lying, People

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• But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the most extraordinary events to arise from their concurrence, than admit of so signal a violation of the laws of nature

  David Hume

  Believe, Men, Law

  David Hume (2012). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.139, tredition

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• There are only four or five real events that we have that draw that many people into town each year. We should have at least 12; and once we have 12, we can have 24.

  Jerry Reed

  Real, Should Have, Years

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• Some events take a lifetime to reveal their damage and influence.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Damage, Influence, Lifetime

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• Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add color—it’s a pot boiler really, but I think it will show how isolated a person feels when he is suffering a breakdown . . . I’ve tried to picture my world and the people in it as seen through the distorting lens of a bell jar.

  Sylvia Plath

  Thinking, Color, People

  sylvia plath (1971). “the bell jar”

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• All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Body, Determined, Conception

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