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565 Occurred quotes by 476 unique authors

An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that… — Anton Chekhov
During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for… — Thomas Frank
The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred. — Jim Leach
In mysticism we have to take all the imprinting that has occurred to us and wash it. Then we need to be re-imprinted but in… — Frederick Lenz
I guess I considered myself just sort of a sketch comedian, you know? Actual screenwriting hadn't really occurred to me as a viable job -… — Thomas Lennon
A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to… — Charles C. Mann
I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as… — Ernst Mayr
Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough to give an… — Norman Mailer
It had never occurred to us that the Kremlin's new anti-booze campaign would apply to journalists. Now, that's a human-rights violation. — P.J. O'Rourke
The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred — Honore de Balzac
I can remember the very spot in the road, whilst in my carriage, when to my joy the solution occurred to me. — Charles Darwin
Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or general revolutions having… — George Julius Poulett Scrope
One of the reasons that I accepted, once asked to do Star Trek, was to give a single child a chance to see the long… — Avery Brooks
I think that there are changes that have occurred in technology that make is that more people can have the same level of information that… — Jim Cramer
Look at what has occurred in history. When the Berlin Wall fell, it was not surprising, but it was unexpected. Who predicted the Arab Spring?… — Gilles Duceppe
The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail… — Norm Dicks
The sad fact is that the same terrorist scenarios, if they occurred in five different States, there could be five different sets of responses to… — Vito Fossella
When I got my very first phone call that I'd hit the 'New York Times' list, I had a small rush of 'I've made it!'… — Lisa Gardner
Events and developments, such as ... the Copernican Revolution, ... occurred only because some thinkers either decided not to be bound by certain "obvious" methodological… — Paul Feyerabend
It never occurred to me that I was going to have to talk to a camera. I don't know if I can do this. — Ree Drummond
I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was writing realism. It… — Chester Himes
It never occurred to me that I needed to say that I was gay. I simply am. Anyone who knows me or who's been around… — Michael Jeter
Yet while on my trip to the Middle East, the London bombings occurred. This was yet another stark reminder that if we don't fight terrorists… — Kenny Marchant
It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple. — Moon Unit Zappa
It was the most earnest ambition I ever had....Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me… — Mark Twain

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