Quotes About Event
The worst time to take a survey is in the middle of a cataclysmic event.
~ Stuart Rothenberg
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Who could have predicted what would happen in the time it takes to boil an egg?
~ Timothee de Fombelle
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At the upcoming Grammy Awards, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony will perform together as the first time, as man and wife. Hopefully music.
~ Tina Fey
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Even as I speak, in four hours time the Kyalami Grand Prix will roar away
~ Tony Lewis
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I first met the brand [Didier Dubot] when I went to an event for them on Top of The Standard. It was about three years ago. It was the first time I heard about them and then that's where I met them.
~ Julia Restoin Roitfeld
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But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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It know we have a fashion of saying such and such an event was the turning-point in my life, but we shouldn't say it. We should merely grant that its place as LAST link in the chain makes it the most CONSPICUOUS link; in real importance it has no advantage over any one of its predecessors.
~ Mark Twain
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A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them. [ Letter to the Millicent (Rogers) Library , February 22, 1894]
~ Mark Twain
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A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them
~ Mark Twain
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But now a thought occurs to me. My own history would really seem so tame contrasted with that of my ancestors, that it is simply wisdom to leave it unwritten until I am hanged. If some other biographies I have read had stopped with the ancestry until a like event occurred, it would have been a felicitous thing, for the reading public. How does it strike you? AWFUL
~ Mark Twain
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But the celebrate was an astonishing disappointment to me. If he had been behind a screen I should have supposed they were performing a surgical operation on him.
~ Mark Twain
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A good part of the whispering had been occasioned by an event which was more or less rare—the entrance of visitors: lawyer Thatcher, accompanied by a very feeble and aged man; a fine, portly, middle-aged gentleman with iron-gray hair; and a dignified lady who was doubtless the latter's wife.
~ Mark Twain
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They did not speak until the reception at the Marriott. The walls were edged with tables of blini, fish pie, and piroshki.
~ Martin Cruz Smith
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The greatest nearness of the last god eventuates when the event, as the hesitant self-withholding, is elevated into refusal. The latter is essentially other than sheer absence. Refusal, as belonging to the event, can be experienced only on the basis of the more originary essence of beyng as lit up in the thinking
~ Martin Heidegger
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
~ Martin Heidegger
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History in live performance.
~ Arundhati Roy
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Laschamps Excursion
~ Stephen Baxter
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Something had changed. History resumed.
~ Stephen Baxter
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The prom's music came from this really bad cover band called The Gypsies of the Allegheny
~ Stephen Chbosky
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But the hardest task in any writing is to present the truth so it can be seen as true. One cannot just give the history of an event in a straightforward manner and expect it to be believed. That history must have a shape. It must have direction and movement.
~ Stephen Dobyns
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His argument for the thesis was that if the universe did not have a beginning, there would be an infinite period of time before any event, which he considered absurd. The argument for the antithesis was that if the universe had a beginning, there would be an infinite period of time before it, so why should the universe begin at any one particular time? In fact, his cases for both the thesis and the antithesis are really the same argument.
~ Stephen Hawking
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So, one can regard the pair of particles as a single particle moving on a closed loop in space-time. When the pair is moving forward in time (from the event at which it appears to that at which it annihilates), it is called a particle. But when the particle is traveling back in time (from the event at which the pair annihilates to that at which it appears), it is said to be an antiparticle traveling forward in time.
~ Stephen Hawking
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Is there any point in hosting a party for time travellers? Would you hope anyone would turn up? In 2009 I held a party for time travellers in my college, Gonville and Caius in Cambridge, for a film about time travel. To ensure that only genuine time travellers came, I didn't sent out the invitations until after the party. On the day of the party, I sat in college hoping, but no one came.
~ Stephen Hawking
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The nonexistence of absolute rest therefore meant that one could not give an event an absolute position in space, as Aristotle had believed.
~ Stephen Hawking
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