Event Quotes

• 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

• The Probability of an Event is greater or less, according to the number of chances by which it may happen, compared with the whole number of chances by which it may either happen or fail.

  

  Abraham de Moivre
  • Fail
  • Chances
  • Event

• When you have a traumatic event in your life, you change. You're not the same person you were, and you have to discover who you've become.

  

  Isabel Gillies
  • Become
  • Discover
  • Event

• Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing.

  

  Harry Johnston
  • Asia
  • Human Species
  • Earth's history

• A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Unknown
  • Event
  • Awaken

• Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.

  

  Judge Mills Lane
  • Give
  • Event
  • Lawsuit

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

  

  Epicharmus of Kos
  • Wise
  • Event

• You never realize what the aftereffect of your activities, however in the event that you don't do anything, obviously there will be no outcome.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Event
  • Activities
  • Aftereffect

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

  

  Evelyn Glennie
  • Aim
  • Event
  • Concerts

• At the time, I was devastated, crushed that it didn't turn out how I wanted. But it was my first major international event, so I learned a lot from it.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Event
  • International
  • Major

• I've been jealous of the men for a long time. We've needed an event like this for years. And it's definitely good money.

  

  Jennifer Jones
  • Good
  • Men
  • Needed

• Bridal is very much a performance - it is the one grand event in every woman's life.

  

  Austin Scarlett
  • Woman
  • Event
  • Bridal

• Long after the actual event has passed, the brain may keep sending signals to the body to escape a threat that no longer exists.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Escape
  • Event
  • Signals

• It is Mystery - the mystery any one man or woman can feel but not understand as the meaning of any event - or accident - in any life on earth.

  

  Eugene O'Neill
  • Mystery
  • Accident
  • Event

• The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.

  

  Ernest Howard Crosby
  • Knowledge
  • Unity
  • Event

• People don't believe they've experienced the event unless they've taken a photograph.

  

  Princess Anne
  • Photograph
  • Event
  • Experienced

• I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the 1992 Los Angeles riots broke out and I began to see them both - L.A. and the London plague - as the same event. A time of crisis. A time when rich and poor get thrown together - and, suddenly one sees alternatives. I began to think about what happens when the containment of a presumed danger through the regimentation of space breaks down, such as when South-Central L.A. began to invade Beverly Hills.

  

  Naomi Wallace
  • Crisis
  • Alternatives
  • Beverly Hills

• The only thing that you might see that is a planned tweet is if I am tweeting about an event or promoting an artist. But really, it is not planned. If I am sitting in front of my computer, I'm like, "Oh, okay, lets tweet about this and attach the link." I try to be spontaneous with the tweeting. It keeps it fun, you never know when or what I may tweet about.

  

  Bryan-Michael Cox
  • Artist
  • Event
  • Tweet

• Will history remember us, I wonder? I do hope so - to imagine that one might do something, touch an event somehow, & thereby transcend the bounds of a single human lifetime!

  

  Kate Morton
  • Hope
  • Imagine
  • Event

• Remember, a word is an invention, a symbol for an idea. Written text began as an artistic representation of a thought or event.

  

  Edward J. Fraughton
  • Remember
  • Idea
  • Invention

• A simple event like that, imagine. She went to her death thinking that maybe her husband was taken care of, but it wasn't that way and now he didn't get a cent.

  

  Ed Slott
  • Death
  • Imagine
  • Take Care

• I hope very much this event, the death of Milosevic will help Serbia to look definitely to the future.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Future
  • Death
  • I Hope

• But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.

  

  George Washington
  • Honor
  • Reputation
  • Equal

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