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Quotes About Event

They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.
~ A.A. Milne
Welcome aboard Mon Remonda. Let's get the rest of your pilots in... so I can get out of this torture suit." "But, sir, I was just going to say how smart you looked in your uniform. I think we ought to stay here, in uniform, a couple of hours so the holographers can capture the image. You know, for the historians." "Wedge, I think I'm going to have you killed." "Yes, sir. I trust you'll wear your dress uniform for an event like that.
~ Aaron Allston
The fearsome critic and not-very-tough composer Virgil Thomson once drew up a set of rules for hearing an unfamiliar work; the last of those is the question I take with me to every new-music event: "Is this just a good piece of clockwork, or does it actually tell time?
~ Aaron Copland
The inner drama is the meaning of the exterior event.
~ Aaron Siskind
inhales. Digby feels the first stirrings of hunger. By such subtle signs, like an orchestra tuning up, the daily event that is central to life on the Coromandel Coast announces itself: the evening breeze. The
~ Abraham Verghese
This is what happened. Pay attention.
~ Adam Roberts
In this world everything that is not of sound racial stock is like chaff. Every historical event in the world is nothing more nor less than a manifestation of the instinct of racial self-preservation, whether for weal or woe.
~ Adolf Hitler
Bachelor parties would pay a lot of money to hire Pat Buchanan to come.
~ Willie Geist
At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well.
~ Robert Trout
It's mind-blowing that I have to pay attention to every little detail. But it's my name. It's TanaCon. And if anything bad happens, bad security or whatever, it's on me. So, I've been putting my heart and soul into making this the best that I can.
~ Tana Mongeau
I'm gonna perform on one of the nights. Good clean fun; we're not going to jail. For the record.
~ Luther Campbell
Once when we performed at a festival there were between 50, 000 and 60, 000 people in the audience we were so shocked. It was crazy.
~ Moa Kikuchi
Performing at the TMCF Awards Gala is so exciting.
~ Andra Day
It was an incredible experience performing for the members and attendees at the Diamond Resorts Invitational; it was such an impressive event, and I was honored to be a part of it.
~ Cole Swindell
For us climate change is not an event in the future. It's an event that we're dealing with now…our entire survival is at stake
~ President Anote Tong
We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience, we have collectively witnessed a fundamental unexpected event, fundamental precisely because unexpected, not foreseen by anyone. It happened, therefore it can happen again: this is the core of what we have to say. It can happen, and it can happen everywhere.
~ Primo Levi
There have doubtless been a number of such incidents, but this one has stayed in my mind. One reason, I suppose, has to do with narrative, with the fact that the meaning of this woman's life was entirely altered by a single event at its end: this is not how stories generally work.
~ Rachel Cusk
We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ.
~ John Fiske
We will wait to see if it is a doozy before we decide how to cover it, and what it all means.
~ Gwen Ifill
I haven't seen it this busy since I've been an IndyCar driver. So I think that's a great kind of thing that's happening for the IndyCar Series, in general, right now. But it's an event that I'm very proud to be part of. I love it. I can't wait to come back next year.
~ Dan Wheldon
All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.
~ Alain de Botton
Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.
~ Sophocles
We all wake up at our leisure; the kids know not to wake me up. Then we make breakfast or go out to eat with family. There is usually a sporting event or two to watch!
~ Josie Bissett
The great event of history is in the great miracle of Life: when, to a paralyzed world, Jesus Christ said, 'Take up your bed and walk,' and at his voice, that world obeyed. The victory of life over death!
~ Edward Everett Hale