Quotes About Event

The lower the class of the affair, the more likely the band will be invited to eat.

I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.

Change is an event but a transition is the process that you go through in response to the change.

Life-and-death. Lifedeath. One event. One short event. Don't forget.

Approach the present with your heart's consent. Make it a blessed event.

Maybe it's an attention-span thing. Music is now the backdrop to our lives rather than an event in itself. We put on a CD while we're doing something else. I can't remember the last time I put on an album and listened to it in a chair with my eyes closed.

We are capable of generating an almost infinite number of narratives about the same event, and it is the interpretation of the event that matters, not just the event itself.

The TV birth of Little Ricky was watched by an incredible 44 million viewers—15 million more than would tune in President Eisenhower's inauguration the next day on all three networks.

The Walmart had expected five hundred people. Five thousand showed up. Walmart called the police and cancelled the event because there was too much of a chance for danger. Jessica Simpson: Menace to Society. Afterward, we called basically everybody we knew to tell them. The funny thing was that nobody believed us.

democratically expressed opinion is hardly more than the applause at a sports event.

Without information, deliberation, and the power to make one's decision effective, democratically expressed opinion is hardly more than the applause at a sports event.

As I look back on those days, most people in Chicago felt that way. Chicago was host to the world at that time and we were part of it all.

The fair alone consumed three times as much electricity as the entire city of Chicago.

A boutonniere rested beside each plate. Everyone wore tuxedos. There was not a woman in sight.

Anyone wishing to bring his own Kodak to the fair had to buy a permit for two dollars

the Crippen case tended to be overlooked, however, because of an event a year and a half later that further sealed Marconi's success. In April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg

What most likely caused the second event was the rupture of a main steam line, carrying steam under extreme pressure. This was Turner's theory from the beginning.

The first of the tea ships, the Dartmouth

It's our job to transform literature into an event. We do this with why and how. Why our character speaks and how our character speaks.

The Parade is not diplomacy," Chris pointed out. "It's celebration.

Immigration has changed Britain more than almost any other single social event in post-1945 Britain – more than the increase in longevity, or the Pill, the collapse of deference or the spread of suburban housing. The only change which eclipses it is the triumph of the car.

Is death like the event horizon of a black hole, where you fall forever?