Event Quotes

• Referring to an event in an untold story is a powerful technique rarely used.

  

  Roy H. Williams
  • Technique
  • Rarely
  • Referring

• It is a law, that every event depends on some law.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Law
  • Depends
  • Event

• I didn't want my event to take away from his charity, ... We bought something like $3,000 worth of tickets for his event and I offered to play a few songs with him if he wanted.

  

  Jim Messina Buffalo Springfield
  • Charity
  • Event
  • Tickets

• Concerts have to be seen as a real event for which the aim is to try and feed everybody.

  

  Evelyn Glennie
  • Aim
  • Event
  • Concerts

• There's something that intervenes and is very important which has to do with value. Value in the true biological sense, which is that contrary to what many people seem to think, taking it at face value - sorry for the pun - we do not give the same amount of emotional significance to every event.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • People
  • Important
  • True

• Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Creativity
  • Process
  • Event

• Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

  

  Aristotle
  • World
  • Sense
  • Probable

• The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

  

  Ethel Barrymore
  • Idea
  • Event

• As for what I might wear, my mantra is that, no matter how chic the event, I don't want to look too prim. I like wearing short cocktail frocks to black-tie events; it just always feels more like me, and a bright red lip is always a staple.

  

  Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis
  • Events
  • Mantra
  • Lip

• I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.

  

  Paula Radcliffe
  • Success
  • Event
  • Marathon

• This is an unprecedented event in terms of devastation and scale. It's not like a spill on a river or a beach; you have small channels, canals, towns, levees. Everything here is complicated . . . and it's not a simple environment to assess damage in.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Terms
  • Scale
  • Devastation

• Sept. 11 was the most photographed event in the world. The media has shown it over and over again. Over time, artists have digested it. I think it's very important to see filmmakers' point of view. Why not now?

  

  Jane Rosenthal
  • World
  • Photographed
  • Sept 11

• The wise man must be wise before, not after, the event.

  

  Epicharmus of Kos
  • Wise
  • Event

• A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Compete
  • Indicator
  • Company`s ability

• To Mr. Seward: It is my desire that, in case Maximillian will surrender, he be sent here a prisoner of war, but that in the event of his continuing the war, or refusing to surrender, then he be shot.

  

  Joshua A. Norton
  • Desire
  • Case
  • Continuing

• If the fiscal cliff occurs, I don't think the Federal Reserve has the tools to offset that event.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Event
  • Federal Reserve
  • Cliff

• In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.

  

  Stewart Copeland The Police
  • People
  • Music
  • Film

• It felt a little empty with her not here. Michelle has always been a big part of the event. I miss competing with her. It really doesn't feel like the Nationals.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Part
  • Event
  • Michelle

• We have evidence all around us in our daily analytic practice and in contemporary world history that this earth-shaking archetypal event is taking place here and now. It has already started. It is manifesting itself in international relations; in the breakdown of the social structures of Western civilization; in political, ethnic, and religious groupings; as well as within the psyches of individuals- the momentous event of the coming of the self into conscious realization.

  

  Edward F Edinger
  • Practice
  • Evidence
  • Relations

• The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise the character and disposition of the individual, the manner in which he will act might be unerringly inferred: that if we knew the person thoroughly, and knew all the inducements which are acting upon him, we could foretell his conduct with as much certainty as we can predict any physical event.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Character
  • Philosophical
  • Disposition

• Three months later, on September 5, 2001, at a pro-am event preceding the Canadian Open at the Royal Montreal Golf Club, I was invited to play a round with Tiger Woods. Nothing in the game of politics had ever been as nerve-racking as that game of golf.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Preceding
  • Canadian Open
  • Royal Montreal Golf Club

• We don't get typhoons in December. They normally end by September. A typhoon happening in October is considered a late event.

  

  Benigno Aquino III
  • September
  • December
  • October

• We don't use Hubble to stare at Jupiter unless there's a special event or some special reason.

  

  Heidi Hammel
  • Reason
  • Event
  • Hubble

• By the end of Barber's talk, this event she's celebrating sounds like a product of the imagination of some master of speculative fiction like Philip K. Dick or Ray Bradbury—a mad dystopia in which feminist dreams have led to a forest full of separate clearings in which more and more women keep to smaller and smaller groups for fear of encountering difference.

  

  Bruce Bawer
  • Imagination
  • Product
  • Ray Bradbury

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