Best Happened Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The closer you are to people, the more you realise what has happened to them.”

“I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.”

Thinking Suffering Perfect Cities Talking Seeing Happened Honest Nostalgia Being Honest Beloved Flaws Baltimore

Author:Laura Lippman

“Baldwin is sort of getting to be a bit funny. I don't know what happened, but a few years ago they suddenly went bankrupt and Gibson bought the whole outfit. Since then they haven't seemed to be doing an awfully good job of providing pianos.”

Knows Years Whole Jobs Bits Happened Havens Years Ago Piano Providing Good Job

Author:Marian McPartland

“Yeah, what happened was Universal wanted one of the characters to be nice so they chose me so there was a scene where the girl was tied to the bed and I let her go.”

Character Wanted Girl Nice Happened Scene Bed Universal Yeah Tied Being Nice Let Her Go

Author:Matthew McGrory

“All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.”

People Knows Writing Literature Written Happened

Author:Norman MacCaig

“There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.”

Ifs Feels Years Book Happens Happened Lucky Twenties

Author:Norman MacCaig

“'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.”

Happened Best Things Chickens Drivers Taxi Weirdo Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me

Author:Jodie Foster

“I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.”

Wells Written Happened Effects Materials Tragic Well Written

Author:Samantha Morton

“Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000 went right into the studio pockets. Corners were cut and that production suffered. Knock wood, that hasn't happened to us.”

Stories Shows Used Cutting Happened Rounds Productions Studios Corners Woods Pockets

Author:Vic Morrow

“My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.”

Firsts Persons Parent Happened College Dad Band My Family My Dad Singers Harvard First Person

Author:Dean Norris

“I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.”

Ifs Firsts Bigs Remember Growing Up Growing Happened Heard Subjects Jokes Jersey

Author:Oscar Nunez

“I got to do a whole slew of TV movies playing the bad guy, including an episode of Smallville. That would never have happened if I hadn't done the Stand.”

Ifs Done Whole Guy Happened Tvs Including Episodes Bad Guys

Author:Corin Nemec

“I need to say how I feel.aIf you were a political person before, and you just happened into a movie, to stop being a political person makes no sense. I always laugh and say, 'Dudes, if I have to choose, I'm a political person first. I would never do another movie again and be completely happy.' I need to say how I feel.”

Ifs Needs Feels Firsts Persons Political Laughing Happened

Author:Kathy Najimy

“The fame thing has happened very gradually, so I've been kind of lucky.”

Kind Happened Fame Lucky

Author:Chris O'Dowd

“We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn't happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go, but we are moving in the right direction.”

Way Long Stills Jobs Moving Growth President Happened Months President Obama Long Way Private Sector Right Direction Moving In Long Way To Go Job Growth Moving In The Right Direction

Author:Martin O'Malley

“I feel that for the first time in a long time, educated Pakistanis are returning to their country to start up educational projects, to start up businesses, so instead of the brain-drain that happened in the 1950s and 1960s, the country is growing and improving economically.”

Feels Firsts Long Country Brain Growing Happened Projects Long Time First Time Educational Educated Improving 1960s Drains Brain Drain

Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.”

Term Happened Harder Former Grandfather My Grandfather Yugoslavia

Author:Tea Obreht

“I walked toward her office,lost in thought about Lish, and poor Steve,and all the other souls I'd sent out of this life,some quite literally. Where did they go?Did Steve go the same place as Lish?And was it vampire Steve ir normal Steve? What exactly happened to the souls when their human bodies died and became vampires?And then when the vampire bodies died?Hello,headache.”

Humans Soul Body Lost Poor Happened Office Normal Died Vampire This Life Hello Human Body Headache Irs Lost In Thought

Author:Kiersten White

“Now, I know that he's taken some flak lately, but no one is prouder to put this birth certificate to rest than The Donald. Now he can get to focusing on the issues that matter. Like, did we fake the moon landing? What really happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?”

Knows Matter Political Issues Taken Happened Birth Moon Fake Get Back Landing Certificates Birth Certificate Moon Landing Biggie

Author:Barack Obama

“I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw, but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging.”

Knows Done Facts School Remember Company Saws Happened Drama Performances Cheeks You Like It

Author:David Oyelowo

“A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.”

Happened Car Slow Down Sermons Wrecks Car Wreck

Author:John Ortberg

“I'm just considering myself extremely lucky. All I wanted is to have 'Paranormal Activity' be released and become successful. And everything that's happened since then is just an enormous bonus.”

Wanted Successful Happened Activity Lucky Enormous Paranormal Considering Bonus Becoming Successful Paranormal Activity

Author:Oren Peli

“I knew I would grow up and wear a costume one day, and that's exactly what happened.”

Grows Growing Up Happened One Day Costumes

Author:Cassandra Peterson

“It appears to me that no one has learned a thing; that Wall Street is still operating as if 2008 never happened.”

Ifs Stills Happened Streets Wall

Author:Collin Peterson

“There was only one punch. Tony Blair rang me and he said 'Are you OK?' and I said 'Yes', and he said 'Well, what happened?' and I said 'I was just carrying out your orders. You told us to connect with the electorate, so I did.”

Wells Said Order Happened Blair Electorate

Author:John Prescott

“There's no excuse, it's just an opportunity that presented in a limited way and that happened and as soon as the press rang me I didn't deny it I just said 'that's it' and I had to go home and explain it.”

Way Said Home Opportunity Happened Presses Excuse Deny No Excuses

Author:John Prescott

“Becoming a mother is the best thing that's happened to me.”

Mother Happened Becoming Best Things Becoming A Mother

Author:Paula Patton

“My concern about Barack Obama is he ran a campaign in 2008 where he said we're going to bring people together and solve big problems. And he specifically talked about the need to reach across the aisle and deal with issues like the economy, which was obviously the top issue in 2008. It has not happened.”

People Needs Said Problem Bigs Together Deals Economy Issues Happened Concern Solve Campaigns Barack Ran Big Problems Aisle

Author:Rob Portman

“It just so happened that for most of my life I've lived in the suburbs.”

Happened Suburbs

Author:Tom Perrotta

“Everyone across America is tightening their belts. The only place it hasn't happened is D.C.”

America Happened Belts

Author:Ben Quayle

“There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.”

“And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.”

Knows Ideas Film Left Saws Happened Feet Six Theater No Idea Cinema Twins Floating Craziest Twin Peaks

Author:Jacques Rivette

“I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of the things that's happened is that being cynical is somehow conflated with being sophisticated. I think that's problematic, to say the least.”

Thinking Kind Levels Happened Negative Cynical Sophisticated Earnest Connotation

Author:Josh Radnor

“A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.”

Mean Happened

Author:Lou Rawls

“But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.”

Children Mother My Own Cases Saws Happened Example Particular News Response Mistreated

Author:Mercedes Ruehl

“Slapping a catchy acronym like the JOBS Act on a piece of legislation makes it more difficult for politicians to oppose it - and indeed that's what happened with the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act.”

Jobs Difficult Pieces Happened Politician Legislation Catchy Slapping Acronyms Jumpstart

Author:Steven Rattner

“Listen, it's not nice to have your mum kill herself, that is difficult. But at the end of the day, it happened a long time ago. My mother was, I hope, not the reason that I have been successful. It's not as simplistic as 'My mum killed herself; I've got to prove myself.' I was very lucky that my parents took an interest in me...”

Long Has Beens Ends Reason Mother Parent Difficult Interest Successful Nice Happened Lucky Prove Long Time The End Of The Day Mum Long Time Ago Prove Myself Your Mum

Author:Stuart Rose

“Being an actress wasn't a plan at all, so what's happened to me is very strange. Life isn't very normal, even though I'm still very much a normal girl. I ride the subway, I ride the bus, and all of that.”

Stills Girl Plans Happened Strange Normal Actresses Bus Subway

Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.”

Next Parent Break Rights Generations Happened Youth Involved Patterns Civil Rights Accustomed Next Generation Stood Up

Author:Octavia Spencer

“When one nation is at war with another nation, the political machine does everything it can to vilify the people of the other nation, so it makes it easier to kill them. Which is understandable and it's happened this way throughout history.”

People Way Doe War Political Nations Happened Easier Machines Vilify

Author:Alexander Siddig

“I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.”

Thinking Men Want Happens Happened Men And Women Liberation Fallacy

Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.”

Class Happened College Theater Department Advisors

Author:David Selby

“I was a straight arrow, a control freak. I didn't do drugs or drink, and this was the '70s. I didn't like the loss of control. Which isn't exactly right, because I didn't know what happened when you did drugs.”

Knows Loss Happened Drink Drug Freak Arrows Control Freak

Author:George Saunders

“The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self.”

“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.”

Feels Years Has Beens House Happened Week Fans Tvs Succeed Full House

Author:John Stamos

“Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.”

People Thinking Needs Giving Looks Law Happened Streets Movement Giving Up Employment France Protest Won't Give Up Protest Movements

Author:Jose Saramago

“To this day, I do not believe that five million were killed. I consider it technically impossible that could have happened. I do not believe it. I have not received proof of that up until now.”

Believe Millions Five Impossible Happened Proof This Day

Author:Julius Streicher

“What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.”

Different War America Principles Happened Independence Secession

Author:L. Neil Smith

“Because I had children relatively late - in my 40s rather than in my 20s - it wasn't anything I ever knew that I would do. It kind of happened to me: I met the right woman and we had children. It was a revelation because it suddenly makes me realize "Oh, I get it. Now I know what to do with the rest of my life."”

Knows Kind Children Realizing Happened Mets Late Revelations

Author:Mark Strong

“It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious incubation which could not be hurried and was if anything impeded by deliberate thinking.... Having, by a time of very intense concentration, planted the problem in my subconsciousness, it would germinate underground until, suddenly, the solution emerged with a blinding clarity, so that it only remained to write down what happened as if in a revelation.”

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