Happens Quotes

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

They have horses in 'Snow White?' I am lucky nothing nasty happens to horses in 'Snow White.'

Of course, nothing happens until somebody sells something.

It quite often happens that they attach a name to a project and it doesn't get all the financing it needs.

One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming.

That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

Apocalyptic thinking happens on the left as well as on the right, and in environmentalism, that's a terrible approach to take. Because it isn't true.

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

Over time, there's a very close correlation between what happens to the dollar and what happens to the price of oil. When the dollar gets week, the price of oil, which, as you know, and other commodities are denominated in dollars, they go up. We saw it in the '70s, when the dollar was savagely weakened.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

No transaction happens unless it is voluntary. It only happens if both of you think you win.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea.

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

Objection is when I say: this doesn't suit me. Resistance is when I make sure that what doesn't suit me never happens again.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

What happens is that the system builds many inferior blood vessels in the eye to take the place of the vessels that are dying. And those blood vessels are not up to the task. And they bleed. They hemorrhage and they cover the eye inside with blood.

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?

And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.

East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above my name on the dressing-room door.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Some people just come in, do it and they know it's right. It turns out better than you imagined it was going to sound. When that happens, you take it as a gift.

If anything bad happens, the media will leap on it. We're under a huge obligation to be successful.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products?

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.