“Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.” YearsWantedEasyStruggleHappenedPromiseOffers Author:Morgan Freeman
“We're gonna put $456 million to go to an island of 50 people? You know... The bridge to nowhere. And this is right after Katrina happened. And so I offer an amendment to take that money from Alaska and repair the stuff in Louisiana.” PeopleKnowsStuffMillionsHappenedOffersBridgesIslandsAmendmentsAlaskaLouisianaKatrina Author:Tom Coburn
“I think what you have to do is have a box office success in every genre and then you're set for life. And fortunately, I happened to do that, so I get a myriad of offers of various sorts.” ThinkingHappenedOffersOfficeBoxesVariousGenreBox OfficeBox Office Success Author:John Travolta
“I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its existence utterly and praise those who fought for its abolition - but also to express our deep sorrow that it could ever have happened and rejoice at the better times we live in today.” BelieveTodayI BelieveChanceExistenceHappenedSorrowOffersPraiseTradeSlaveRejoiceShamefulAbolitionSlave TradeDeep Sorrow Author:Tony Blair
“When we signed with Warner Bros., they knew what they were getting. They knew they weren't going to get some easily manipulated prepackaged pop group. That was not going to happen. What they wanted, I think, was the integrity that we had to offer. What they wanted was the kind of street cred or cache that R.E.M. could bring to them and the chance that we would give them a hit or two. What happened was we gave them a bunch of hits. And we became huge.” ThinkingGivingKindTwoHappensWantedChanceHappenedGroupsStreetsHugeIntegrityOffersPopsBunchBrosWarner BrosCache Author:Michael Stipe
“It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas.” PeopleIdeasOpinionHappenedShareOffersForewarned Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“I hope each of us realizes, at least in part, what a rich blessing it is to be at BYU. We are better prepared to receive and achieve the wonderful advantages and opportunities that life has yet to offer us because of what has happened to us here.” OpportunityRealizingRichWonderfulHappenedAchieveBlessingOffersAdvantagePreparedByu Author:Cecil O. Samuelson
“What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write... Maybe the deadly notion came from liking to read so much. Maybe I was in love with the image of being a writer. Whatever. It had been a really bad idea. Because I couldn't write, at least not by the bluntly and frequently expressed standards of anyone in a position to offer any encouragement and feedback.” WritingStillsIdeasMightAbleYoungHappenedPositionOffersStandardsEncouragementNotionFeedbackBad Ideas Author:Paul Di Filippo