Best Events Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I do like to go to movies. I like to be in the theater. I like the event of it.”

“It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?”

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Author:Kevin McCloud

“On TV, stories and events are finalized in 30 or 60 minutes, or neatly tied up after a season or two. The best stories are the ones that force us to come to our own conclusions and to explain why we believe in our conclusions.”

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Author:Lurlene McDaniel

“I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.”

Thinking Way Writing Believe Character Able I Believe My Own Attitude Style Events Originals Work Out Affected Good Writers

Author:Margaret Mahy

“Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.”

“All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.”

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Author:Natalia Makarova

“None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events.”

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Author:James Nachtwey

“Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.”

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Author:LeRoy Neiman

“A too often forgotten truth is that you can live through actual events of history and completely miss the underlying reality of what's going. What history misses, the myth clearly expresses. The myth in the hands of a genius give us a clear picture of the inner import of life itself.”

Giving Hands Reality Clear Missing Events Genius Truth Is Forgotten Myth Imports

Book:The Pagan Christ: Is Blind Faith Killing Christianity?

Source: The Pagan Christ: Is Blind Faith Killing Christianity?

“Easter occurs on different dates each year because, like the Jewish Passover, it is based upon the vernal equinox, that dramatic moment when the hours of the day-light and the hours of darkness at last draw parallel and then the light finally and triumphantly wins out. Thus Easter is always fixed as the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. It's a cosmic, solar, and lunar event as deeply rooted in religious traditions originating from sun-god worship as one could conceivably imagine.”

“Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.”

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Author:Barbara Olson

“Mandates are rarely won on election night. They are earned after Inauguration Day by leaders who spend their political capital wisely, taking advantage of events without overreaching.”

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Author:Ron Fournier

“My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.”

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Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.”

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Author:David Hume

“Looking back on the event, I find myself thinking there are three approaches to journalism represented here. One is the "cool" approach of traditional journalism, including network broadcasting in which NPR is no exception. One is the "hot" approach of talk radio, which has since expanded to TV sports networks and now Fox TV. The third is the engaged approach of weblogging.”

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Author:David "Doc" Searls

“I had a big event in my personal life. Then I reevaluated and started going to theology class, and then I found my husband.”

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Author:Ali Landry

“The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.”

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Author:Christian Lous Lange

“When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.”

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Author:Trevor Nunn

“If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function.”

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Author:Charles W. Pickering

“In any event, the problem in Iran is much bigger than weapons. The problem is the terrorist regime that seeks the weapons. The regime must go.”

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Book:An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror

Source: An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror

“Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.”

People House Events Position Charity Various Administration Seats Invites Protocol Position Of Power

Author:Sally Quinn

“What the study I chaired actually said was we needed tougher regulation of cash and capital in banks, as credit was too easy. Events proved that right.”

Said Easy Study Events Needed Credit Cash Regulation

Author:John Redwood

“No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?”

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Author:L.A. Reid

“When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event.”

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Author:Nicole Richie

“I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.”

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Author:Paula Radcliffe

“Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish.”

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Author:Janet Suzman

“But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event.”

Thinking Events Exciting Theatre Entertaining Affluence Affluent Luxurious

Author:Janet Suzman

“It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight.”

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Author:Janet Suzman

“No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.”

Important Different Moving Events Particular Degrees Tempo

Author:Karlheinz Stockhausen

“There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence.”

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Author:Queen Elizabeth II

“You create time by joining events together. But they don't join together; there's no separativity.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.”

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Book:Golden Tales of Anatole France

Source: Golden Tales of Anatole France

“The takeover of Harvard in 1805 by the Unitarians is probably the most important intellectual event in American history - at least from the standpoint of education”

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Author:Samuel Blumenfeld

“People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.”

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Author:Gary Larson

“I'm following a real event and real people.”

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Author:John Landis

“Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.”

Giving Doe Events Unfortunate Lawsuit Unfortunate Events

Author:Mills Lane

“People don't come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained.”

People Want Feels Book Emotion Events

Author:Neil Strauss

“It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.”

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Author:Peter Shaffer

“If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.”

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Author:Tabitha Soren

“In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live events beamed into your living room. Now, every world event plays out on its own, and as a media event.”

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Author:Chris Terrio

“Europe and the euro zone have no reason, rationally, to push Greece out of the euro. But this is a system in which many parties, many countries, many governments, many electorates participate and we could have events which, rationally, are not controllable.”

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Author:Evangelos Venizelos

“I haven't seen it this busy since I've been an IndyCar driver. So I think that's a great kind of thing that's happening for the IndyCar Series, in general, right now. But it's an event that I'm very proud to be part of. I love it. I can't wait to come back next year.”

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Author:Dan Wheldon

“There have been a lot of events that have made me really look at the real world, like September 11th. There are so many things that just make you realize that you're not going to live forever and that you have to enjoy every day.”

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Author:Mae Whitman

“The Masters is one of golf's greatest traditions and Augusta is one of the best courses in the world. They are synonymous. It's an event that every golfer, and golf fan, looks forward to.”

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Author:Mike Weir

“FlashForward' is definitely not a sci-fi show. It doesn't have the mythology of 'Lost.' We have one major event that happens that you are asked to buy into. After that, you're dealing with very human ripple effects - how people deal with it and how they come to terms with it.”

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Author:Sonya Walger

“The vast majority of the people who populate our planet live lives of quiet desperation that are all too often quite harsh and painful, lives in which events and circumstances usually don't turn out the way they had hoped or planned.”

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Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“We are not at the mercy of events that transpired in our childhood unless we believe we are.”

Believe Childhood Events Mercy Our Children

Book:The Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting Playbook

Source: The Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting Playbook

“Choose the whole of your environment, things and events, based upon the value, meaning and function they hold. Do not allow obligation or immediacy to bind you to physical things or specific actions.”

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Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“What are the proper grounds for joy? Is it circumstance which will determine the stature of my spirit? Ah, no. It is choice. It is always a choice - in the face of any event - for joy.”

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Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

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