Quotes About Events

Only the most pleasant characters in this book are portraits of living people and the events here recorded unfortunately never took place.

With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When you're in the public eye, it's just amplified, that's all.

I am using the phrase "the hidden machinery" to refer to two different aspects of novel making: on the one hand how certain elements of the text—characters, plot, imagery—work together to make an overarching argument; on the other how the secret psychic life of the author, and the larger events of his or her time and place, shape that argument. (p. 29)

Worst-case scenarios are often low-probability events. They're even less likely to happen if you strategize how to prevent them from happening, and how you'd deal with them if they did.

The two events were probably unrelated, but both jolted Dave the way a sudden air pocket reminds nervous passengers that they're soaring above the clouds in a pressurized metal tube.

My best hostess tip is to have good food and really good music!

The hardest thing about life is that every now and then you have to do things so you have something to tweet about.

When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them

marriage, children, illness, and death were life-changing events. Everything else was just ripples in the river.

Futurists interpret Revelation 4–22 as describing real people and events yet to appear on the world scene.

In short, Marx understood the power of mass communication and the need to control it and shape it to frame events and opinions. In other words, the purpose was to propagandize, not inform.

In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has.

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties.

Everything went smoothly at the sailing events today, except for the British team. They forgot to bring limes and they all got scurvy.

Listening to your own mind gives you "good reasons" why you should be fearful over unexpected events is just like being friends with someone who thinks it's funny to find new ways to hurt you!

Legends that endure in the future...were events that took place in the distant past.

Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.

No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones.

Events in the train of prophecy that had their fulfillment away in the past are made future, and thus by these theories the faith of some is undermined.

It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.