“And one day, this thing happened to me: I coughed, and the blood just came gushing out of my mouth. ... I still can't believe that that happened to me, but I sat there, and I said to God, 'Well, if it means I'm going to die, that's OK.' I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.” IfsThinkingBelieveWellsKindMeanSaidStillsDiesFeltHappenedBloodOne DayMouthsThings HappenSatSerenity Author:Desmond Tutu
“We grew to our present size almost against ourselves. It was not a deliberately planned commercial venture in the sense that I sat down and said that we were going to make ourselves into a huge financial octopus. We evolved by necessity. We did not sit down and say to ourselves, 'How can we make a big pile of dough?' It just happened.” SaidBigsBusinessHappenedHugeGrewDown AndFinancialSizeSatVentureDoughOctopus Author:Walt Disney
“We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life.” ChildrenStoriesComedyHappenedChildhoodOur ChildrenDown AndSatPoignant Author:Howie Mandel
“I sat on the piano bench next to my mother in church. Something happened before I set foot on this planet. I was crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it.” MotherNextChurchHappenedFeetPlanetsDadMy DadHearingBrilliantSingersPianoSatBenchesPianistCrawling Author:Al Jarreau
“The best thing that could've happened to me was that I learned a lot in Vegas, but I didn't know how to implement it. Whenever I came to Texas, all we had was Marc Laimon, jiu-jitsu coach. We didn't have a striking coach. So me and him started to just develop our own game, because he knows nothing about striking. We sat down and we sort of found my style. I think that was the best thing that could've happened to me.” ThinkingKnowsFoundGamesKnow HowHappenedStyleDown AndCoachesBest ThingsSatTexasVegasJiu Jitsu Author:Johny Hendricks
“When I sat down to write I just felt like a geek writing about myself. And then it dawned on me, just because of the way I am, I can't stop talking, and part of the problem is that anything that gets said reminds me of something that happened to me one time, and invariably I cut people off and talk about myself.” PeopleWayWritingSaidI CanProblemFeltTalkingCuttingHappenedSatOne TimeGeek Author:Paula Poundstone
“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
“And out of the blue, I got a call from an editor friend at Knopf and she said that they were interested in putting out an update for their vintage paperback line. So I was more than thrilled and it was suggested that perhaps I could do a 1,000 word new introduction covering what's happened with the whole Warhol thing since 1990 when the first edition hardcover came out and, uh, that was about August 1st and I sat down at my computer here in East Hampton and on on August 30th I'd written almost 10,000 words!” FirstsSaidWholeLinesWrittenHappenedComputerBlueEastSatEditorsIntroductionCoveringAugustVintageWarholUpdatesHamptons Author:Bob Colacello
“The approach to that movie wasn't, 'Lets make this movie about Amsterdam and maple syrup.' The concept was, 'Lets go to Amsterdam. Amsterdam is fun.' So we flew to Amsterdam with our cameras and we saw what happened and then we got back and we sat down and we said, 'What's the movie here.' That's when we realized that the movie was 'The Maple Syrup Saga'.” SaidFunSawsHappenedLetting GoApproachConceptsDown AndCamerasSatFlewSagaAmsterdamMapleSyrupMaple Syrup Author:Casey Neistat