What Happened Quotes

You know, things kind of happen organically and, you know, Broadway sort of happened out of a career in performing and - which happened out of practicing piano when I was a kid.

I married my best friend. And I listen! Ultimately I've been very fortunate - I understand that that doesn't happen for everybody but it happened for us and we take it very seriously.

To reporters the day after his accession to the presidency, April 13, 1945: When they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me.

But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it's right or wrong. I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I am now.

I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing.

Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I'm a successful writer.

In my life, things have happened to me. I've never felt I was controlling anything.

I tend to take [ to Bridget Jones Diaries] something that nearly happened, or might have happened, and then exaggerate it to make it funny and to make it tie into the themes.

I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest.

I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don't think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own.

To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment.

You think you're writing one historical novel and it turns into three, and I'm quite used to a short story turning into a novel - that's happened through my whole career.

I have a feeling that I'm going to be blamed for everything that's ever happened.

I think it's been unfortunate, but it's happened, that since the Great Recession, the gains have all gone to the top. And we need to reverse that.

What happened in Flint is immoral. The children of Flint are just as precious as the children of any other part of America.

It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again.

Sometimes there's not a direct transfer of skills from business to government, but sometimes what happened in business would be really bad for government.

You dream that you want to be a monster maker when you grow up, and that's what happened. I refused to take no for an answer. I just was a very driven kid, who's now a very driven semi-adult.

So to answer your question, Im not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake.

People photograph everything and nothing - no interaction is deemed to have actually happened unless somebody has a picture of it.

Though I was careful never to mention it, I began to see a new dimension in everything that happened.

What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.

I didn't join a band. I didn't start a band. I got asked to do it. It kinda happened by accident.

I wasn't pursuing a musical career or anything. It just happened and then it was there.

I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.

At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened.

But what really happened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish.

Something has happened, hasn't it? ... It's like being up close to something so large you don't even see it. Even now, I'm not sure I can. But I know it's there.

I'm sorry to say that far worse things have happened and the literature of the Holocaust is a witness to the capacity of the novel as a form.

Whatever happened in the neighborhood. That's what I was rapping about. And that sparked people's interest. And that's what kind of put me on that path.

A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.

The idiot had shot their own dog. That’s what happened when the destructive potential of a man’s weapons exceeded his intelligence.

It's all been quite a revitalizing process for me, being out there in the States. It wouldn't have happened without Trainspotting.

You've got first-generation Americans here who are going to be poorer than their parents. That's never happened in the States before, and it's going to have massive social repercussions here.

Now, the old man happened to be the Lord.

The silence was killing me. And that's all there ever was. Silence. It was all I knew. Keep quiet. Pretend nothing had happened, that nothing was wrong. And look how well that was turning out.

While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.

Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?

My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.

What happened to you?" she asked. "I got hit in the side." "With what?" "A knife.

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

In so many accidents, you're not quite sure. Lots of times you think that's what happened, but you just don't know.

When it comes to comedy, they always say, "Jackée, whatever comes to your mind." But heaven forbid I can't think of something. It's never happened yet, thank God. I may knock on wood.

I like fictional stories - like, things that never happened but the seed of it starts as real.

What happened yesterday is over. What happens today is up to you.

Whatever had happened to him [Newt] out there — maybe even related to his lingering ankle injury — had been truly awful.

What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.

This was the way the night had cashed in. Choices had been made and things happened, and here we were. It was sad, and funny. My life was made of this. Stuff like this.

In a small cathedral town where changes are few, there are always people who remember who used to live in a particular house, what happened to them there and afterwards, and so on.

What happened to your tan?"--Fang "It was dirt." --Max