What Happened Quotes

I think weddings are sadder than funerals, because they remind you of your own wedding. You can't be reminded of your own funeral because it hasn't happened. But weddings always make me cry.

Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever.

Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened.

Everything that happened to me happened by mistake. I don't believe in fate. It's luck, timing and accident.

All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.

Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.

Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.

My wife Margaret is the best thing that's ever happened to me.

Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each man must go through the fire himself.

Winning the World Cup was the worst thing that ever happened to the England team.

I told myself a while back, 'Love what you do, but don't fall in love with what you do.' That way you won't be brokenhearted if ever it gets canceled five episodes in - which has happened to me.

I had to give it a full go and see what happened.

The best thing that's ever happened to me is my daughter. To be a Mom is the best thing in the world. You know, that's all I really wanted to do after I had finished doing films.

It's never happened in the World Series competition, and it still hasn't.

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

Everything that happened to you is a page that's been turned and is done with.

Don't regret what's happened. If it's in the past, LET IT GO. Don't even remember it!

Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that.

I want there to be a piece of me in my music, you know? I genuinely believe that's the secret of all the success that's happened (for me).

If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came.

No rising hope on the political scene who offered his services to Labour when I happened to be its leader can be dismissed as an opportunist.

I tried to think but nothing happened!

I've never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. I'm here because it happened. But I didn't do anything to make it happen apart from saying 'Yes'

It isn't the experience of today that drives men mad. It is the remorse for something that happened yesterday, and the dread of what tomorrow may disclose.

Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.

I can't think of any time we had a discussion [with Dre] about the aftermath of what happened the night before. We just had too much going on.

How can time be long or short? Time is without length or breadth. The question is, what happened during its passing. And what happened is, our lives have been joined together.

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.

I could tell you all the medical terminology,' She says. 'But what finally happened is his heart got to big for his body'

The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.

I don't teach vegetarianism; it is a by-product of meditation. Wherever meditation has happened, people have become vegetarian, always, for thousands of years.

I've always wanted to write a song that goes, "I love you" and a book that goes, "Something happened." Something very direct.

Out in the world not much happened. But here in the special night, a land bricked with paper and leather anything might happen, always did.

I do a great deal of research. I don’t want anyone to say, ‘That could not have happened.’ It may be fiction, but it has to be true.

It would be nice if this [finding really cheap stocks] happened all the time. Unfortunately, it doesn't.

Madness strips you of memory and leaves you scrabbling around on the floor of your brain for the snatches and snippets of what happened, what was said, and when.

From the time that 'Nevermind' came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

the past is not only that which happened but also that which could have happened but did not.

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.

I'd compare myself to Zinedine Zidane... a humble guy who just happened to be the best

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

I didn't run off with the secretary. It made it seem like I had committed adultery and then ran off with a secretary, neither of which happened.

As in, I think 'Badlands' is one of the funniest films of all time: "Every day I wish I was carried off to a magical land, but that never happened" is one of the funniest lines in any film.

At the time of German Reunification, it was no secret that Germany would soon become the strongest political entity in the European Union. And that has happened.

But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.

He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset

What's happened recently in Pakistan, India and Kuwait only goes to show that it's futile to imitate Western democracy. They've ended up exactly where they started.

Whenever I went to an historical moment that was sad or where something terrible happened, it was, for me, a learning moment, a teaching moment for those who survived.