Event Quotes

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

Change is not an event, it's a process.

The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population of this country, as it promises to be to ill-fated Africa.

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.

The difficult thing for me is going to a event and having to be dressed up and being judged for what you wear. People care so much about that these days.

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.

My nightmare of nightmares is being overdressed for a casual event - I've done it! You have to have a real sense of what you want to communicate.

In the event of the death of a current or former President, like the recent death of President Ronald Reagan, the flag should be flown at half-staff for thirty days from the day of the death.

Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.

We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game.

The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media event on the planet. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, everybody listens.

The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917.

In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew.

We have a substantial number of countries that have pledged and provided all kinds of support for the United States in the event that war becomes necessary in Iraq.

In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions.

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin.

Literature is analysis after the event.

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.

When you get to an event like the Olympic Games, you can put too much pressure on yourself.

In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many times you've described some real event as being 'just like a movie.'

Every time I've had a bad performance at an event, I've come back more determined and focused.

For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant.

It sounds really over the top to say you're responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to the city of New York, to this country, to people everywhere. So many people were affected by the events of September 11, and I feel this is one of the ways that that event will be understood and defined.

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.