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Quotes About Happening

Reachable, near and not lost, there remained in the midst of the losses this one thing: language. It, the language, remained, not lost, yes, in spite of everything. But it had to pass through its own answerlessness, pass through frightful muting, pass through the thousand darknesses of deathbringing speech. It passed through and gave back no words for that which happened; yet it passed through this happening. Passed through and could come to light again, "enriched" by all this.
~ Paul Celan
Everything that could happen, but it never happened, eventually was taken away by the wind and leaves no trace.The life - this is our actions.
~ Paulo Coelho
I didn't want make art about the internet at all. It's a really hard subject to take on and I did not set out to do that. But, it was real and it was what was happening.
~ Erika M. Anderson
It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.
~ Georges Braque
Music is an immediate art; it's always happening right now.
~ Unknown
because of the tiny size of the apartment, was happening
~ David Baldacci
My country is in the depths of lethargy and very apathetic, there is very little happening. There's no action in my country. This is quite a challenge to come over to a country like this where for me the most important thing to me is that the music is a communicative blanket media. Where at home it's merely something to listen to.
~ David Bowie
Even the novice alone can see quickly that a life conducted, temporarily or no, as a simple renunciation of value becomes at best something occluded and at worst something empty: a life of waiting for the will-be-never. Sitting in passive acceptance of (not judgment on) the happening and ending of things.
~ David Foster Wallace
All my own life, I ain't understood shit about what was goin on. A thing jus happen, then somethin else happen, then somethin else, an so on, an haf the time nothin makin any sense.
~ Winston Groom
Eu queria iniciar uma experiência e não apenas ser vítima de uma experiência não autorizada por mim, apenas acontecida.
~ Clarice Lispector
I am the place in which something has occurred.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
Everything that happens is always simple. And there's a principle to how things proceed, assuming that they last.
~ Herta Muller
When he was at the Vatican, in Cardinal Bainbridge's day, he quickly saw that no one in the papal court grasped what was happening, ever; and least of all the Pope. Intrigue feeds on itself; conspiracies have neither mother nor father, and yet they thrive: the only thing to know is that no one knows anything.
~ Hilary Mantel
And yet it had happened. A window had been left open to the night, and a vampire had crawled through.
~ Holly Black
But sometimes normal just isn't happening. Sometimes crazy feels too good to resist.
~ Lisa Kleypas
At some of the venues, the audience was so loud we could hardly hear what was happening on stage, which kind of threw us back to 1983, when we had very similar reactions on a much bigger scale.
~ Roger Andrew Taylor
We demonstrate human intelligence through our speech, writing, and actions, right? Yes, but only to a point. Intelligence is something that is happening in your head. Behavior is an optional ingredient. This is not intuitively obvious, but it's not hard to understand either.
~ Jeff Hawkins
The blow to the head, the drugs, being trapped underground? Jasper Coyle knew exactly what was happening to him. He read the papers, he watched the news.
~ Jeffery Deaver
Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run away to New York, where I have a life!
~ Malcolm Mclaren
I didn't intend to even become an actor. I was studying fashion, and I think acting just happened by chance. It really felt more like I was watching a movie from outside, like it was happening to someone else. It's been a great journey so far.
~ Sonakshi Sinha
I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there.
~ Adam Arkin
Half of a broadcast show, in my experience, is things happening, and the other half is people talking about how they feel about the things that happened. And so there's this sense of everyone saying their subtext out loud.
~ Noah Hawley
Lots of things happen in a woman's body, and nothing works exactly on schedule.
~ Unknown
The companies that refused to make hard choices, or refused to admit that anything much was happening, fared badly. If they survive, it is only because their respective governments will not let them go under.
~ Peter F. Drucker