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Events Quotes


"Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs."



"Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future."


"National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness."


"The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times."


"I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake."


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


"Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents."


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



"One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable."


"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."


"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."


"If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century."


"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"


"The sixth sense is at the core of our experiences. It is what makes experiences out of events."


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


"I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11."


"In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa."



"But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes."


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


"Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters."


"Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred."


"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention."


"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."
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