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Quotes About Event

I love you don't forget me whatever hpapens to me. I love you.
~ Robert Galbraith
The Nazi effort to foster the relationship between the police and society took many forms, including a new public relations event, the 'Day of the German Police'. It was held for the first time just before Christmas in 1934, and every year across Germany thereafter around that time to show the gentler and social side of the police, who collected money for the charity 'Winter Help Works'.
~ Robert Gellately
desire had its exaggerated and dramatic pleasures, but he was bored by the endless scenes and recantations. Love was simply the same steady heartbeat hour after hour. It bored him with its lack of event.
~ Robert Goolrick
There is all the difference in the world between knowing that a catastrophe is going to happen, and knowing that it has happened.
~ ROBERT HUGH BENSON
No single piece of evidence can "prove" the existence of any historical event.
~ Robert Jan Van Pelt
Proof of our society's decline is that Halloween has become a broad daylight event for many.
~ Robert Kirby
December 7, 1988,
~ Robert Masello
Supposedly we were generating excitement, or underscoring a memorable event. But according to a grunt, "We wanted to know why you fuckers wouldn't come down and give us a fucking ride.
~ Robert Mason
Henry James wrote brilliantly about story art in the prefaces to his novels, and once asked: "What, after all, is an event?" An event, he said, could be as little as a woman putting her hand on the table and looking at you "that certain way.
~ Robert McKee
Story Event creates meaningful change in the life situation of a character that is expressed and experienced in terms of a value and ACHIEVED THROUGH CONFLICT.
~ Robert McKee
Every event has a purpose and every setback its lesson.
~ Robin S. Sharma
I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Rather than a great tragedy, the fall of Rome was the single most beneficial event in the rise of Western civilization.
~ Rodney Stark
In view of the anomalous relation that consciousness has to the very physical notion of time, as was described at the beginning of this section, it seems to me to be at least possible that there is no such clear-cut 'time' at which a conscious event must occur.
~ Roger Penrose
The day was not yet over and it was already my most memorable Walpurgisnacht ever.
~ Roger Zelazny
As a language, Garbo's singularity was of the order of the concept, that of Audrey Hepburn is of the order of the substance; the face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn, an Event.
~ Roland Barthes
There is a time when death is an event, an ad-venture, and as such mobilizes, interests, activates, tetanizes. And then one day it is no longer an event, it is another duration, compressed, insignificant, not narrated, grim, without recourse: true mourning not susceptible to any narrative dialectic.
~ Roland Barthes
The more you think back on an event, the worse it gets in your memory. The best way to remember something accurately is to write it down before your cynical imagination gets carried away.
~ Leil Lowndes
The catalyst begins a story's action. Something happens—a crime occurs, a letter arrives, Aunt Mary appears on the doorstep—and from that moment on the story is defined. Until the catalyst kicks off the story, the only information the audience has is where and when the film takes place. But once an event happens, the story suddenly has focus and direction.
~ Linda Seger
The midpoint scene occurs just where you'd expect it—about halfway through the script. Syd Field, in The Screenwriter's Workbook, says that it divides the story in half, introducing an event or line of dialogue that helps structure Act Two. In my work consulting on more than 2,000 scripts and teaching many of the best films, I don't find a midpoint scene in every film. But when I do find one, it functions as an excellent tool to help structure a difficult second act.
~ Linda Seger
Until the catalyst kicks off the story, the only information the audience has is where and when the film takes place. But once an event happens, the story suddenly has focus and direction
~ Linda Seger
The second coming was an event in the spiritual, and not in the natural world.
~ John Humphrey Noyes
Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing
~ Bruce Dern
There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.
~ George Vecsey