“I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.” IfsFirstsBigsRememberGrowing UpGrowingHappenedHeardSubjectsJokesJersey Author:Oscar Nunez
“I still haven't heard anything from Apple about my hacks. There is a tool based on my work reverse-engineering Apple's FairPlay called jhymn that's been hosted on a U.S. server for over a year and nothing has happened.” YearsStillsHappenedHeardHavensToolsApplesEngineeringReverseHacksServerReverse Engineering Author:Jon Lech Johansen
“We live in the age of "Everything Has Rights." Now, I'm not denying that the concept of rights is valid, but I wonder whatever happened to obligations? One rarely hears the term anymore. Indeed, have you ever heard of a "human obligations movement?" The very ideal that holds a democracy together--the willingness to make personal sacrifice for the common good--is going quickly by the wayside.” HumansAgeTogetherTermCommonResponsibilityWonderDemocracyRightsHappenedHeardSacrificeMovementConceptsIdealsObligationWillingnessCommon GoodPersonal Sacrifice Author:John Rosemond
“Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true.” WorldYearsLongSeemsSportsAttentionHappenedHeardFootballLong TimeGolfSeriesIncrediblesBeing TrueTigersWorld SeriesPrecedence Author:Payne Stewart
“You write a spec, and you pour your heart and soul and life into a spec, and you think that spec is the movie that's going to sell and get made... I've never heard of anybody that happened to. What happens is, you write a spec, people get it, they see your writing, they see you're good, they bring you into their office and they say, "Boy, that spec was really good - we'll never make that in a million years. We have rights to the board game of Monopoly. What do you think about a Monopoly movie?".” PeopleThinkingWritingYearsHeartMadeSoulHappensGamesBoysMillionsRightsHappenedHeardOfficeSellsBoardsMonopolyHeart And SoulBoard GamesSpecs Author:Robert Ben Garant
“I get emails every day from people saying, "I never heard your music. I don't know anything about you. I just happened to watch this on Netflix. I hope you're feeling better. More power to you." It just shows you, I don't know, how generous and wonderful people can be.” PeopleKnowsShowsFeelingsWatchesKnow HowWonderfulHappenedHeardGenerousFeel BetterEmailNetflix Author:Kathleen Hanna
“Growing up in Middlesbrough [in England], I listened to artists like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Howlin' Wolf. It was like another world. Something happened to me when I heard that music. It leapt out of the speakers and went straight into my heart. And I thought, "Right, that's what I'm doing."” WorldHeartLittlesArtistGrowing UpGrowingHappenedHeardMy HeartEnglandSpeakersAnother WorldChuckBerriesHowlin WolfMiddlesbrough Author:Paul Rodgers
“Sarah Palin finally heard what happened in Japan and she's demanding that we invade 'Tsunami.'” HappenedHeardJapanPalinTsunami Author:Bill Maher
“Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.” Has BeensSaidEndsMomentsPowerfulHappenedHeardAtheismBuildingFineGeniusOne DayBuiltGardenStructurePositive AtheismArguingThat MomentArchitectInstructionReceivingClosetsVery PowerfulMoles Author:Voltaire
“The first poem in The Beauty holds a woman in Portugal in a wheelchair singing, with great power, a fado. I have never seen this or heard of it, the image simply arrived. But surely such a thing has happened. And it matters to me that it has, or could.” FirstsMatterHappenedHeardSingingGreat PowerPortugalWheelchairs Author:Jane Hirshfield
“The earliest impetuses for writing, for me, were simply the strange things I happened to notice in my everyday life, stuff I read about in the grocery store tabloids my mom bought, situations that struck me as compelling, anecdotes I'd heard, images, words, metaphors.” WritingStuffSituationHappenedHeardStrangeMomEverydayMetaphorMy MomStoresCompellingEveryday LifeGroceriesStrange ThingsTabloidsGrocery StoresAnecdotesImpetus Author:Dan Chaon
“In case you haven't heard, my girlfriends and I have declared the summer of 2012 as the best summer ever. The best way to document said 'best summer ever' is with a good ol' disposable camera. Smile, click, move on! Nobody gets pic approval, and there's no time wasted gathering around the camera to analyze a moment that just happened.” WaySaidMomentsMovingCasesHappenedHeardHavensSummerCamerasBest WayGirlfriendWasting TimeApprovalDocumentsGatheringMy GirlfriendClicksWasted TimeDisposable Author:Candice Accola
“When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I'm very happy. Because it's the same thing that happened to me as a child. When I first heard the tenor voice, I immediately fell in love with this kind of music.” PeopleFirstsKindChildrenYoungVoiceHappenedHeardFirst TimeTheaterOperaVery HappyTenors Author:Andrea Bocelli
“I spent nine days in the Downtown Los Angeles City Jail. The judge gave me a suspended sentence and I went to work that night - wailed just like nothing happened. What strucked me funny though - I laughed real loud when several movie stars came up to the bandstand while we played a dance set and told me, when they heard about me getting caught with marijuana, they thought marijuana was a chick. Woo boy - that really fractured me!” RealNightStarsCitiesBoysHappenedHeardJudgingCaughtSentencesNineLoudLos AngelesJailLaughedMarijuanaMovie StarChicksSuspendedDowntownDowntown Los Angeles Author:Louis Armstrong
“When what you do is play characters, every day, all day, I wasn't really interested in playing a pop star on the weekends. I wanted to be myself, and it slowly turned into not being me at all, so I just didn't really see the point. If the music actually happens, at some point, it will be because some underground following happened, or some little elves heard it and were leaking it.” IfsLittlesPlayCharacterHappensWantedStarsHappenedHeardFollowingPopsWeekendBeing MePop Stars Author:Brie Larson
“People have an affinity towards things, and you don't know where it comes from. Mozart wrote a symphony when he was four, so it's said; the theory is maybe because his father was a conductor, it happened in vitro, and he heard the music before he was born, and by the age of four he knew how to write music.” PeopleKnowsWritingSaidAgeFatherBornFourHappenedHeardTheoryMusic IsSymphonyConductorAffinity Author:William Shatner
“I sat down at the piano and my hands began to browse over the keys. Thensomething happened. I felt as though I could reach out and touch God. I foundmyself playing a melody, one I'd never heard or played before, and words came intomy head - they just seemed to fall into place.” HandsFallFeltHappenedHeardKeysPianoSatMelodyReach OutFall Into Place Author:Thomas A. Dorsey
“We need to write because so many of our stories are not being heard. Where could they be heard in this era of fear and media monopolies? Writing allows us to transform what has happened to us and to fight back against what's hurting us. While not everyone is an author, everyone is a writer and I think that the process of writing is deeply spiritual and liberatory.” ThinkingNeedsWritingStoriesSpiritualFightingProcessHurtHappenedHeardMediaErasMonopoly Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I was living in New York at the time of the 9/11 attacks. And I remember, you know, in those weeks that followed, when none of us spoke about anything else really, a number of friends of mine, people I knew, including very experienced journalists, I heard them saying things like, well, now we understand what happened to you.” PeopleKnowsWellsRememberNumbersHappenedHeardWeekNew YorkMinesIncludingJournalistSpokesRemember YouRemembers You Author:Salman Rushdie
“I've heard that some authors do dream their books and I would love that if it happened to me, but so far it hasn't. Sometimes I'll get a good idea during the night and if I don't write it down, I won't remember it the next morning.” IfsWritingBookIdeasSometimesDreamRememberNightNextMorningHappenedHeardGood Ideas Author:Judy Blume