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Quotes About Event

We had only snacks last time, I think it was OK for a day time menu. But this time it will be late night when people gather so we should add some proper meals.
~ Hidetoshi Nakata
The Flutie Bowl is a great event that brings together people who really care about the autism community. We always have a great time bowling and playing music.
~ Doug Flutie
The more important the event, the more elaborate the costume. Of course God could not care less what she wore, or who baptized the child. But God was not Catholic; Icilma was. The baptism would have to be done in full regalia. She
~ Marie-Elena John
And as we glided across the ice toward Fingerbone, we would become aware of the darkness, too close to us, like a presence in a dream. The comfortable yellow lights of the town were then the only comfort there was in the world, and there were not many of them. If every house in Fingerbone were to fall before our eyes, snuffing every light, the event would touch our senses as softly as a shifting among embers, and then the bitter darkness would step nearer.
~ Marilynne Robinson
The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. That is why the first event is known to have been an expulsion, and the last is hoped to be a reconciliation and return.
~ Marilynne Robinson
the reality we inhabit is itself a celestial event, the business of eons and galaxies, however persistently we mistake its local manifestations for mere dust, mere sea, mere self, mere thought.
~ Marilynne Robinson
I thus concluded, with the same awe of Jane Goodall discovering the chimpanzees' nimble use of tools to extract termites, it really wasn't so much the tragic event itself, but others having knowledge of it that prevented recovery.
~ Marisha Pessl
I think it takes some terrible or great event to fuse two people together without inhibition. Without heat or shock, it can't be done. I believe that's why sexual love, which needn't be, is so intensely intertwined with sin.
~ Mark Helprin
And I had my first oyster. Now, this was a truly significant event. I remember it like I remember losing my virginity — and in many ways, more fondly. August
~ Anthony Bourdain
Food, it appeared, could be important. It could be an event. It had secrets.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Mrs Maclintick's dissatisfaction with life had probably reached so advanced a stage that she was unable to approach any new event amiably, even when proffered temporary alleviation of her own chronic spleen.
~ Anthony Powell
CHAPTER XLVIII THE DINNER AT THE BUSH
~ Anthony Trollope
Perché una libertà fossilizzata, materializzata, dogmatizzata diventa una schiavitù, e gli uomini, rimanendo indifferenti alla notizia dell'avvenimento, documentarono la loro liberazione dalla schiavitù del mito cristiano, del materialismo cristiano.
~ Antonio Gramsci
It was a gathering which Soviet troops could not fail to miss.
~ Antony Beevor
This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
It was nine o'clock at night upon the second of August - the most terrible August in the history of the world.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
But once—and whenever you hear but once, you know trouble's coming—something happened.
~ Sholem Aleichem
often has no suspicion of the causal connection between the precipitating event and the pathological phenomenon.
~ Sigmund Freud
An exaggerated sense of occasion, or any sense of occasion, for that matter, will automatically impede your ability to have fun. Conversely, a well-cultivated obliviousness to the conventions of any occasion is guaranteed to up the fun quotient. When people ask me, "What are you wearing to [such and such event]? I'm not sure what to wear...," I experience a strong desire to kill them. These whiny people, with their obsolete sense of appropriateness, are the Antichrist.
~ Simon Doonan
In honor of my goddaughter's christening, I will perform 'The Real Slim Shady,' by Eminem," he says confidently.
~ Sophie Kinsella
To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.
~ Sophocles
Death occurs in unexpected times.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
~ Charlotte Brontë, Villette
Anytime you meditate, some electric jerks occur in your thigh...the symbol of premonition of an unpleasant event that has happened or will take place in future.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson