When you're writing about something that happened, it helps you transition to the present. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Michael Brown happened to be black. Trayvon Martin happened to be black. Eric Garner was a black man. So this pattern continues… — William Lacy Clay, Jr Copy Share Image
If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead. — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me. — Lee Van Cleef Copy Share Image
“What about your mum? She got taken away. Mine too, I said. There was nothing special about that. It happened all the… — Judy Budnitz Copy Share Image
I was supposed to have a relationship with Judy, but that never happened. Actors in series didn't have the control that they… — Mark Goddard Copy Share Image
I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There's no tradition of scientists knocking down the Sunday school door, telling the preacher, That might not necessarily be true. That's never… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Why is it that people don't know what to say when something bad has happened to someone they know? Maybe because they… — Ellen Wittlinger Copy Share Image
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
The thing that seemed to me so important about the psychedelic experience was that it happened to me. I wasn't reading John… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in… — Eva Hesse Copy Share Image
In my stories, I controlled what happened in a way I couldn't in real life. My characters lived through the horror and… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Five years after Aerosmith got back together, I realized how fragile we are as humans. There was a time I thought we… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
We all know Reagan's legacy, from the Iran-Contra affair to the funding of the Nicaraguan military in which over 200,000 people died.… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
James L.Brooks is just a very original person. So that was definitely the luckiest, most important thing that happened to me [meeting… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
“You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight. I was coming here, on the way to the lecture, and I… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
When you have any kind of success in life, that's like the most dangerous moment that you're in because you're going to… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I don't think that you can dispose of the constructive and inventive things that America is doing - and say, "Oh we… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I never asked to be a spokesperson or public figure. It just happened. — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image