“Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this happens to me a lot, actually - the melancholy of the situation becomes more front and center.” WritingSometimesSeemsHappensSituationFrontsPagesMelancholy Author:Mike White
“By the 6th grade I stopped doing ordinary things in front of people. It had been ordinary to sing, kids are singing all the time when they are little, but then something happens. It's not that we stop singing. I still sang. I just made sure I was alone when I did it. And I made sure I never did it accidentally. That thing we call 'bursting into song.' I believe this happens to most of us. We are still singing, but secretly and all alone.” PeopleBelieveLittlesMadeStillsHappensKidsSongI BelieveFrontsSingingOrdinaryThings HappenGradesAll AloneBurstingOrdinary Things Author:Lynda Barry
“I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.” KnowsYearsMadeHappensRunningFiveStageFrontsHappeningsRiversDryFive YearsSweatPouringMicrophones Author:Nickolas Ashford
“Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens, it's entirely your responsibility the entire time. I like that intensity.” PeopleMatterHappensSongResponsibilityFrontsNo Matter WhatIntensity Author:Chris Cornell
“Your body can dictate your mind, so when I walk to a fight a lot of times I'm scared, I'm scared to death, I have a lot of doubts of myself, I'm afraid to fail, I'm afraid to be humiliated in front of everybody; but what happens, I act like it's impossible for me to fail and that my victory is a certainty. So as I'm walking to the Octagon and I act with confidence my body takes over my mind and I become confident for real. As I'm walking I see the change in my mind and when I reach the Octagon I'm a different person, I'm very confident.” MindPersonsDifferentRealBodyHappensFightingWalksDoubtImpossibleFailingFrontsVictoryWalkingScaredYour BodyCertaintyMmaHumiliatedAfraid To Fail Author:Georges St-Pierre
“There is a secret, I think. When you are front of a camera there is something that happens. Some relationship, some movement, some strange kind of suspension. That's where you find the layer in yourself that is duplicated in everyone. And when you get it right, if you can imagine all the hearts beating in one beat, it's like that. It's beautiful.” IfsThinkingHeartKindHappensBeautifulSecretImagineFrontsMovementStrangeBeatsCamerasLayersHeart BeatSuspensionHeart Beating Author:Juliette Binoche
“The worst fear in the hearings was that you would get some evil interrogator: you could never know what might happen then. No one who lives in a free country will ever understand that kind of fear. What is most horrifying is the realization that you have no idea what can happen, that your life is totally in the hands of someone in the chair in front of you, someone might well be a demon.” KnowsWellsKindIdeasCountryHandsMightHappensLife IsEvilWorstFrontsHearingRealizationNo IdeaDemonChairsFree CountryWorst Fear Author:Diet Eman
“When you stroll through Munich it can happen that you suddenly stand in front of an old house, an idyllically-dreaming church that smiles like a friendly anachronism into our modern time.” DreamHappensHouseChurchModernFrontsFriendlyModern TimesMunichOld HousesAnachronism Author:Joseph Goebbels
“Especially with sports cars, when you have got so many cars on the track with various degrees of competitiveness, then something will happen. It's the nature of racing, the law of averages. If you want to be a front-runner then you are going to have to push very hard, and collisions can happen.” IfsWantHardHappensLawSportsCarFrontsDegreesAverageTrackVariousRacingRunnersCollisionCompetitivenessSports CarsLaw Of Averages Author:Allan McNish
“What I endeavor to do is shine a light on what happens at the court, both as a law clerk and then as a litigator litigating and winning major cases in front of the Supreme Court over and over and over again.” LightHappensLawWinningCasesFrontsMajorsCourtShiningSupremeEndeavorSupreme CourtClerksLitigators Author:Ted Cruz