What Happened Quotes

When 9/11 happened, 12 of our neighborhood firemen were killed. I looked around at the country that had adopted me and I became an American.

If I have led my life totally deliberately, then when I come to the end of the diving board, I can just fall off the diving board and it will be perfect. I won't even remember what happened.

Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them on television, and that changed everything.

I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it has happened will anything survive.

There's no going back from what happened. You can go back and understand the past, but you can't go back and change it.

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent in all beginnings.

I don't feel any 'white guilt,' because I had nothing to do with (slavery) whatsoever. I feel shame for my country that it happened and that's why I feel we need to deal with it.

For so many years, fans and friends have been wanting me to succeed and be back on TV every week, which hasn't happened since 'Full House.' I feel like I came through for them.

Sometimes you take time off, and then you look around and you go, "Hello. What happened? Oh dear!"

And what happened then? Well, in Whoville they say that the Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day

New York's architecture alone is enough to inspire a whole album. In fact, that's what happened at first - my early stuff was mostly just interpretations of landscapes.

Earl gave me his version of what happened and asked me not to suspend the umpires.

the present is the merest flicker between the long long time past and the things that haven't yet happened but most assuredly will.

I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.

I was haunted by a bear attack that happened in Algonquin Park in 1991. The problem was that I dont believe in ghosts, so that ruled out an exorcism. My other choice was to start writing.

I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.

I'm a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him.

I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

With Romeo and Juliet, you're talking about two people who meet one night, and get married the same night. I believe in love at first sight-but it hasn't happened to me yet.

There was definitely a lack of any sort of villain in the Clinton era, which is why when Columbine happened, it was easy to pick on me. My face was around and it made good TV.

How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?

My predecessor taxed wealthy, successful people at a higher rate than ever before. And what happened? They left. And what came of it? Did unemployment drop? No.

Everything that has befallen you happened simply cause it crossed your mind.

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.

I know love at first sight can work. It happened to my parents.

I'm actually the last person to ask about school. I kinda ducked out at 12, before all that stuff might have happened. I left school after sixth grade and was basically home-schooled after that.

For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!

The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney World. I'm sixteen now, so you can imagine that's left me with quite a few days of major suckage.

I'm really awkward when people recognize me. I'm not good at it, and for the most part it hadn't happened to me until 'True Blood,' and then, all of a sudden, it started happening all the time.

I was angry and frightened, and I was scared. I knew what I had done. The whole night is my fault. None of this would have happened if I didn’t drink.

The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.

In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.

I love catching a snapshot of something that is just about to happen. Or maybe something that just happened, you know. But I like especially that just-before kind of feeling.

It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.

Every moment is all the things that have happened before and all the things that are going to happen, and...the way all those things look at one point on their way along a line.

I am personally open - after all that has happened and after ten years in that probationary status where all they have is a permit, I personally am open to allowing people to apply for a green card.

I think a lot of us can relate to not choosing to face a painful memory, and something that's a painful past, and wanting to pretend like it never happened.

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.

I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.

This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.

I don’t have time to worry about the things that could happen. I am too busy thinking of all the happy things that have happened.

I'm going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there's an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened.

I feel like something important has happened to me. Is this possible?

History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future.

Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me...I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street.

You know, that's all basketball is. If someone loves something, and you take it away, it's like what does he do now? What does someone do? That's what happened with me.

My favorite part of Comic-Con? The groupies. Man, they have loose morals, really. Men, women, I'm just saying that it gets weird on Sunday night. No, that's sadly never happened.

I've stopped thinking all the time of what happened yesterday. And stopped asking what's going to happen tomorrow. What's happening today, this minute, is what I care about.