Happens Quotes

The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.

Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without at least one murder.

You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.

Of all the songs that I've written since I was 15 or 16, every song is different every song is special, it happens in a different way and I like that.

It doesn't matter that I can't remember the details any longer: death happened to her. Death happens to all of us.

I enjoy writing scripts. I can find out what happens. With an outline, I feel like I'm doing an architectural diagram of something.

I am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries.

In America you make your plans and then they happen.

I do not watch television. But I'm in touch with the world. If anything really important happens, someone will tell me.

What happens in the present moment? In the present moment, you are producing thought, speech, and action. And they continue in the world.

One day you're going to learn something that can't be explained with science. And when that happens, your life's going to change in ways you can't imagine.

What happens in the past, is in the past. But don't be surprised if it comes back and haunts you.

So now what? What happens when words fail us?

I'm simply pointing out that what happens to us isn't the whole story. That I continue to exist even when we're not together.

The older I get, there doesn't seem to be anything remotely more interesting than talking about love and the lack of it and what happens when it's taken away from someone who's had it.

My wife happens to be probably the greatest working woman in comedy. I can't think of anyone who even approaches her achievements and her abilities.

Why onions? Because they're cheap, last a long time, can be lit any number of ways and force me to think about what happens when the form turns away from the light.

I do tend to apply myself to projects that make me uncomfortable because usually when that happens I try to find a way of existing in the project that is more creative.

I'm always curious about what happens when we die. And I'd like to think that somehow the spirit goes on. I'd rather not think that it's just about this.

In one's youth, one has tremendous access to one's feelings. And as one gets older, some of those feelings kind of drift away. But so much more happens to you. There's more at stake in life.

I think that people's weight fluctuates. It happens. It happens to everybody.

It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens.

The attention has to be on the Spirit. And that cannot be there unless and until something happens within.

I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.

My proposal happens to be very mainstream.

In the United States, and to a certain extent in Canada, there's very little interest in what happens outside their borders.

Unless that happens, unless you get, you know, kind of integration of activists' concerns and movements, it will be, each one will be 'preaching to the choir'.

What matters is what happens among the powerful.

Whatever happens, I train hard for the fans and their support.

Couples take care of each other, Clare, that's what makes them a couple. And couples tell each other when something happens that scares them.

Up to this point your life has pretty much sucked. You’re not responsible for that. But you are responsible for what happens from here on.

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.

In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens.

True love is not a potion one person can swallow and another refuse to drink. It happens only when the souls of two join together to form one

I'm about going out in the world and noticing stuff, and going home and writing it down, and putting it next to other stuff I've noticed and seeing what happens.

In the end it happens, in some way you couldn't imagine before.

A lot happens in 20 years.

Justice seldom happens by accident.

You get a role like this in a big action movie [like Jack Reacher] and you can go one of two ways: you can paint in broad strokes, which happens a lot in action films, or you can get very detailed.

If you watch a movie, it never happens that you see a character that is in every single scene.

I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.

The things I thought would happen didn't. Things I never anticipated unfolded.

I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God.

All the truly great stand-ups say, "I go onstage, and I work on jokes. The inspiration will happen while I'm doing my work." To me, in the end, the surest thing is work.

Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the nice sights in our city, seeing a young woman on a bike.

There are certain things that happen in New York that just don't happen anywhere else.

It's not what happens in life, it's how you react to what happens in life.

You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes - it's just never going to happen.

What happens when these young men and women come home so scarred and so wounded? We are ignoring that fact. We're just shoving them under the carpet.

[The US] budget is dominated by the retirement programs, Social Security and Medicare - loosely speaking, the post-cold-war federal government is a big pension fund that also happens to have an army.