Keep your eye on the main event.

Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room.…

— Nancy Gibbs

Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of…

— Richard Attias

For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for…

— Barton Gellman

“Growth is never an event, it's a process.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

“An “event” is something that happens that does not quite fit into our established system of knowledge, and so it will appear to us…

— Mark T. Conard

It is not an event; it is a piece of news.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically be a…

— Matt Mullenweg

The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored…

— Lewis Tappan

The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

— Salman Rushdie

The theater remains relevant because of 3D. It makes it an event. You go there, 400 people put on their glasses, and it's just fun.

— Evan Goldberg

The Gospel is not a theory; the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea; the Gospel is not a way of thinking or…

— John Piper

A crisis, by its very nature, is a negative event.

— Judy Smith

Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third…

— Bob Graham

'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

I lost in my first ever 400m race, the event I almost ruled later.

— Milkha Singh