Earthquakes Quote by Daniel J. Boorstin

“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

“I name ‘event’, a rupture in the normal disposition of bodies and normal ways of a particular situation. Or if you want, I name…

— Badiou

I'm interested in the way major events don't necessarily announce themselves as major events. They're often little things - the drip, drip of life…

— Noah Baumbach

Events are like horses. Sometimes they run away. After they've run for a while, though, they'll start to walk again. Then there'll be a…

— David Eddings

A non-event ... is better to write about than an event, because with a non-event you can make up the meaning yourself, it means…

— Margaret Atwood

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Events do not happen; they are just there, and we come across them.

— Arthur Eddington

“There are two kinds of special events: planned and unplanned.”

— Laurie Nadel

A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting…

— Michael Morpurgo

Some events do take place but are not true; others are, although they never occurred.

— Elie Wiesel

Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.

— Carl Jung

“It was in fact the ordinary nature of everything preceding the event that prevented me from truly believing it had happened, absorbing it, incorporating…

— joan didion