"Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter."

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"News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute."

Jessica Savitch, American Journalist

Events, News, Weather

"Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject."

Hermann Ebbinghaus, German Psychologist

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"Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist."

Elliott Erwitt, French Photographer

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"I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript."

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, American Writer

Events, Information

"To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events."

Teresa de Lauretis, Italian Author

Events, Thinking

"What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever."

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish Poet

Events, Plants, Trees, Words

"The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken."

Catherine McCormack, English Actress

Events,

"Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last."

Mercy Otis Warren, American Playwright

Events, Mind

"There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened."

Madeleine Stowe, American Actress

Events, Laughter

"The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false."

Enya, Irish Musician

Events,

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"A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it."

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"Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art."

Art, Literature, Trade

"I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour."

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"I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty."

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"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form."

Religion, Creation, Devil, Doubt

"No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism."

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"Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person."

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"News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute."

"Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject."

"Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist."

"I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript."

"To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events."

"What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever."

"The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken."

"Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last."

"There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened."

"The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false."

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"A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it."

"Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art."

"I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour."

"I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty."

"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form."

"No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism."

"Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person."

"Originality is undetected plagiarism."

"There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences."

"The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values."