Event Quotes
1358 quotes by 1141 authors
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of…
— Hannah Arendt
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
— Gaston Bachelard
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All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a…
— David Bailey
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It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the order of one…
— Nicholson Baker
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The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
— Ethel Barrymore
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'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event.
— John Berger
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to…
— John Berger
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'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of…
— Annie Besant
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The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting…
— Bill Bowerman
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Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
— Charlotte Bronte
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In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle…
— Abdallah II
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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us…
— Louisa May Alcott
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It feels good when your hometown supports you, and Macon's always done that with us. Every time we come here, it's an event - which…
— Jason Aldean
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I remember at 16 years old, growing up in Queens, we were punks, but hey, when we went to the theater, we wore a shirt…
— James Caan
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Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I…
— Drew Carey
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To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's…
— Deepak Chopra
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I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
— Winston Churchill
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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of…
— Jean Cocteau
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