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Events Quotes by John Berger
- You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
- Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
- 'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event.
- 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…
- Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is…
- If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
More Events Quotes
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. — Marcus Aurelius
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we… — Richard Bach
- Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with… — Richard Bach
- 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
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time… — David Bailey
- It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the… — Nicholson Baker
- Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of… — Russell Baker
- Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by… — Javier Bardem
- Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are… — Amelia Barr