Quotes About Events

I feel like whatever you've done in your career, good or bad, it's nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

I belong on the stage. I love how the day's events, whatever you read in the newspapers or watch on the TV, are reflected in the performance and how it's received.

One has only to follow events, and you will be all right. The surest way is to take whatever comes as it comes.

Whatever I feel comfortable in is usually what I'll wear. I go to different events and premieres and walk the red carpet... those things are awkward enough on their own. You don't want to be pulling up a top all night. I will sacrifice foot comfort though. I love high heels.

Whenever I go out, I have to have a jacket on. I prefer casual ones for a party and semi-formal ones for events.

But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling.

I don't go to regular music festivals because I tend to run in the opposite direction wherever there's big crowds.

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Remember, when God is executing His plan in our lives, He also designs and arranges events which continue to unfold until His purpose is revealed.

I covered the White House during the Bush years when Ari Fleischer, Scott McClellan and Dana Perino were at the podium. We thought those were, at times, crazy press briefings, asking questions about major events like the Iraq War and the leaking of Valerie Plame's name and the outing of her as a CIA operative.

On a regular basis, to appease White House or campaign staffs, Secret Service officials order agents to ignore basic security rules and let people into events without being put through a magnetometer or metal detector.

I've had some wonderful times at the White House. I've been with Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush.

People are going to go out and do things after games and celebrate and do that kind of stuff. Everybody cannot be everywhere, and nobody can prevent crazy things from happening. Stuff is going to happen, and you've just got to deal with it.

Any of my previous fights before the UFC and 'the Ultimate Fighter' were all main events and co-main events.

I think blaming the president for high gas prices is like blaming Rudy Giuliani for 9/11.

Character is primary. What happens as far as plot and events is not as intriguing to me as what's happening inside this particular person.

I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as whether to serve bagels or doughnuts at the department coffee hour.

A lot of the questions raised about television's power and influence on events have applied throughout history to every mass-communications medium - most particularly print, because that's the medium we've had the longest.

I think people enjoyed LA Law so much, because it was the first show that delved into current events through the prism of the law.

I'm fascinated by current events and the privilege of trying to share it with other people and tell a story.

I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.

The Nobel Prize has been a disturbance at the beginning of October for some years. It would be gratifying to win, but it would be quite an ordeal, too, with all the events which go on for two days. I'd think carefully about what I was doing the day it is announced and maybe not be around, or be around, but elsewhere.

Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

Each of us has a network of emotional and logical associations that is unique to us. Activate one mode of the association, and you activate a predictable pattern of behavior. A situation isn't just the external events that take place; it is how each individual processes those events and integrates them into her thoughts and feelings.