It Happened Quotes

#1. I hear people say, "It happened for a reason," or "It's part of God's plan," and I wish that made sense to me but it doesn't.

Mary-Louise Parker

#2. If he hadn't done that interview with Bashir, he wouldn't be there now. That was the first time he ever did an interview like that. He was afraid of something like that all along. And it happened.

Joseph Jackson

#3. I don't know how it happened, and I don't know why, but this
what she and I have
it's solid. You don't need to worry about her. I'd rather cut off my own arms than hurt a single purple hair on her head. I'll look after her.

Ella Frank

#4. If it happened, it happened. Why should it have to mean anything?

Yann Martel

#5. There is a nationwide shortage of drugs for Attention Deficit Disorder. The FDA says they're not sure how it happened. I guess somebody wasn't paying attention.

Jay Leno

#6. When you're twenty, love is like a fever, it makes you almost delirious. When it's over you can hardly remember how it happened ... Fire in the blood, how quickly it burns itself out.

Irene Nemirovsky

#7. Go talk to her," Boo said.
"About what?"
"Anything."
"You want me to walk up to her and say, 'Are you a ghost?'"
"I do that," she replied.
"I love it when you get it wrong," Callum said.
"Once. It happened once."
"It happened twice," Stephen said, looking over.

Maureen Johnson

#8. I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now.

Karin Slaughter

#9. I think our relationship with Epic had run its natural course, and it happened to coincide with the fulfillment of our contract. We decided not to resign with them.

Mike McCready

#10. So here is my story, may it bring
Some smiles and a tear or so,
It happened once upon a time,
Far away, and long ago,
Outside the night wind keens and wails,
Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!

Brian Jacques

#11. My favorite personal hockey moment was probably when Mike Bossy scored fifty goals in fifty games. He was the first one to do it since Rocket Richard. I was young when it happened, but I remember it very distinctly.

Kevin Connolly

#12. Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather.

Floyd Abrams

#13. A lot of my wounds have healed. They have left scars, and I can either hide my scars, put a long sleeve shirt on, and cover them up. Or, I can show them off and say, "Yeah, it happened."

LeCrae

#14. A SWAT team surrounded my house and came in every door. But it happened because on the day that we split up, Madonna developed a concern that if she were to return to the house, she would get a very severe haircut.

Sean Penn

#15. Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old.

John Sayles

#16. Because that was how it happened: one moment you were there, laughing, talking, breathing, and the next you were gone. Forever. And there wasn't even a shape left in the world where you'd been, neither the trace of a smile nor the whisper of a word. Just nothing.

Kate Atkinson

#17. Twelve years after Robin's death, no one knew any more about how he had ended up hanged from a tree in his own yard than they had on the day it happened.

Donna Tartt

#18. Things happen in NFL games. I don't try to dwell on it. I try to say, It happened. Let's move onto the next one.

Devin Hester

#19. I suspect states are going to realize there's money to be made, and they'll start to change laws so people can distil to sell. It happened with wine, it happened with beer.

Adam Rogers

#20. I always knew I was going to leave the Midwest but didn't really know how the opportunity would present itself. When it happened, I was like, "Yes, okay right now, I'm coming. Goodbye!"

Ashley Hinshaw

#21. We don't condone it, but it happened. Is there a concern Yes, there is a concern. People are going to think what they think. But the reality is, I know the players we have, I know the character we have. We're recruiting the right people.

Larry Coker

#22. It happened and it was impossible and beautiful and then it ended before it even really began, leaving nothing behind but secrets and broken hearts.

Sarah Ockler

#23. I ate her cooking for eighteen years," he whispered. "You get used to it."
"Oh yeah, when?"
"I think it happened around the seventeenth year," Henry said.

Michael Buckley

#24. How did they know that I was the one who saved them?"
"They don't. You're the third knight they've celebrated over since it happened.

Gerald Morris

#25. It has been so long since Liverpool won the title, I was a 12-year-old Everton fan the last time it happened.

Jamie Carragher

#26. Having our hearts exposed is an extremely vulnerable position to be in. It can make us feel persecuted and alone. Why did this happen to me? we ask. It happened partly because we were fortunate enough to have loved someone. Without love there would be no grief.

June Cerza Kolf

#27. I never really said I want to be a role model. But then when it happened I was so down for it.

Selena Gomez

#28. Every time you do a take on a movie, you're not sure if it's going to succeed. Even if you have a great cast, like we had, every scene you're kind of waiting for the release. 'Oh, yes; it happened. We got it!' There's always the possibility that it's just not going to work.

Wes Anderson

#29. Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me. Books saved me. So, I do believe through stories we can learn to change, we can learn to empathize and be more connected with the universe and with humanity.

Elif Safak

#30. Going from college to being on national TV almost fresh outta school, it happened really fast.

Terrence J

#31. Filmmaking is about moments. In real life, things might take six months, a year, but [in filmmaking] you have to create the moment where it happened.

Morten Tyldum

#32. The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happened. I hate to say it like that because I wait for calls now.

Vanessa Ferlito

#33. I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.

Gayle Forman

#34. Well, if that's how it happened, I don't like how Etain was never given a choice. Both Midhir and Eochaid should have been kicked in the marble bag for behaving like her hoo-ha was something they could buy and sell" ~ Granuaile

Kevin Hearne

#35. A football team is really a big family. There's a give and take ... but a few are working for their name only. They go the whole week trying to figure out who said something, what they said and where it happened instead of showing that they're big men.

Otto Rehhagel

#36. It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did.

Shannon Hale

#37. It happened in pieces, tiny little turning points. I'll never figure out when it all turned, because it wasn't a single moments. It doesn't matter how many times I look back, how many times I try to figure it out. There is no before and after. Just a year of choices.

Amanda Grace

#38. It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I had to fall out.

Caroline Knapp

#39. Others died, but it happened in the past,
The season (as all men know) most favorable for death.
Is it possible that I, subject of Yaqub Almansur,
Must die as roses had to die and Aristotle?

Jorge Luis Borges

#40. Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.

C.J. Sansom

#41. It happened again this afternoon. Just the way it did that other night. We were talking
talking about how to protect her, actually
and then, suddenly, I looked at her and it was as if I'd found an entire universe in her eyes.

Cate Tiernan

#42. The people on Wall Street broke this country, and they did it one lousy mortgage at a time. It happened more than three years ago, and there has been no real accountability, and there has been no real effort to fix it.

Elizabeth Warren

#43. I love you, Allison. It happened when I wasn't looking for it, when I didn't know I needed it. But I fell in love with you so quickly and so smoothly. So without question.

Jessica Park

#44. I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we did it we had great economic growth, we cut taxes, and we had a big surplus.

John Kasich

#45. One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were ... It happened bit by bit, until ... you're doing exactly what you don't want to do with people you can't stand
the people you hated when you were ten.

John Lennon

#46. For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I don't think it happened for maybe another four years that I actually thought of a story, the plot of a story that corresponded to that phrase.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#47. And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.

Neal Stephenson

#48. It took a lot of water to down just that f-king bat's head, let me tell you. It's still stuck in my f-king throat, after all these years. People all over the world say, 'You're the guy who kills creatures? You still do it? You do it every night?' It happened f-king once, for Christ's sake.

Ozzy Osbourne

#49. Maybe - after 14 months all I really know is that I don't know anything except that it happened to me, and what I saw during that short time was real. That's

Philip K. Dick

#50. People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened.

Carl Sandburg

#51. I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.

Margaret Atwood

#52. No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner,' Peeta says.

Suzanne Collins

#53. So-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time. I have called this mental defect the Lucretius problem, after the Latin poetic philosopher who wrote that the fool believes that the tallest mountain in the world will be equal to the tallest one he has observed.

Anonymous

#54. It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened.

V.S. Pritchett

#55. We all can think of at least one kid who had great parents, a great family, and an all-around great childhood ... who suddenly went crazy as soon as he left the house for college or adulthood. And nobody can figure out how or why it happened!

Andy Andrews

#56. Such madness. When you're 20, love is like a fever. It makes you almost delirious. When it's over, you can hardly remember how it happened. Fire in the blood, how quickly it burns out.

Irene Nemirovsky

#57. it seems to me that one of the truths about history that needs to be made clear to a student or to a reader is that nothing ever had to happen the way it happened.

David McCullough

#58. It really was that simple, and through His grace, God showed me that it was my job to pray that He would work in each of our lives to bring us closer to Him. I wasn't supposed to worry about how it happened . . . I was just supposed to pray that it did.

L.N. Cronk

#59. On losing the opportunity to star in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman 'You know what? It happened for the right reason. Although I would have made a good Clark Kent. I look better in glasses.

Kevin Sorbo

#60. When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.

Laozi

#61. No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

Roddy Doyle

#62. Generally speaking, all true children's stories make promises to their readers. Here you are, they say, unhandy and short, and there is a big world that one day will be yours. Listen to how it happened for Cinderella once upon a time, and Jack with his beanstalk, and Aladdin with his lamp.

John Goldthwaite

#63. When I started out playing chess as a kid I thought I should be world champion. As a kid you have no idea what that means and you only sort of picture it. It is hard to imagine that I waited all those years and it happened in a late stage of my career.

Viswanathan Anand

#64. With Lizard, I felt overwhelmed by the desire to touch her skin, to kiss her, hold her, make love to her,no matter how it happened, I just had to have her, Lizard and no one else. Right then and there. Tears came to my eyes, I wanted her so much.

Banana Yoshimoto

#65. When I was a teenager, I was like, 'Something is wrong with me. I don't fit in. I'm not like everybody else.' So, I always knew that I wanted to explore and move on, but it was completely unexpected, the way it happened.

Noomi Rapace

#66. Whatever prompted life to begin, it happened just once. That is the most extraordinary fact in biology, perhaps the most extraordinary fact we know.

Bill Bryson

#67. I think we have to get bolder. Why after Fukushima didn't we all go out and shut down all the nuclear power plants and stay there until it happened?

Eve Ensler

#68. the soles off your shoes!' Then he took out a sack of pearls which lay in the rushes, and without another word he dragged it away and disappeared behind a stone. It happened that soon afterwards the mother sent the two children to the town to buy needles and thread, and laces

Jacob Grimm

#69. And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared.

Zadie Smith

#70. Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.

Salman Rushdie

#71. I also think the women's movement has unintentionally contributed to the dishonoring of motherhood. It happened because we made such a big deal about our right to go out into the world.

Marianne Williamson

#72. Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way.

Donna Tartt

#73. It happened so fast - so abruptly. An innocence I'd clung to was lost in that instant.

Nic Sheff

#74. The two of them simply weren't attracted to just any attractive, eligible man; they were attracted rarely, but when it happened, it was evidently a life-altering experience.

Judith McNaught

#75. Sometimes a week might go by when I don't think about that game, but I don't remember when it happened last.

Don Larsen

#76. She tried not to be gloomy at funerals. People lived, and died, and were remembered. It happened in the same way that winter followed summer. It was not a wrong thing. There were tears of course, but they were for those who were left. Those who had gone on did not need them.

Terry Pratchett

#77. The first time he tapped her toe she thought it happened by accident. The second time, she kicked him.

Rogenna Brewer

#78. If a root is pulled out, don't think that it happened because of the strength of the wind, but because you didn't make the root grow deeply enough.

Sun Myung Moon

#79. During my 8 years in office, I set up a special investigatory branch as part of the highest court level. As it happened, from the time I set it up until now, I'm the one who has been investigated under that procedure. Of course, I had not expected this to happen.

Chen Shui-bian

#80. There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.

Gary Oldman

#81. This is totally unexpected. I thought I'd be in the NBA or the NFL. I never thought baseball. It's kind of like a surprise. I'm happy it happened.

Carl Crawford

#82. If something bad happened just do this 3 things.First inhale second exhale and third accept that it happened.

Kenneth De Guzman

#83. It's like, you know, it doesn't matter what you do, even if you try to replicate an experience down to every last detail, it'll never be the way it was when it happened naturally the first time.

J.A. Redmerski

#84. Dr. Suess said: 'Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened..'
I tell my dates: 'Don't cry because it happened, smile because it's over

Josh Stern

#85. I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on his watch. If he had done what any moral human being should have done in the beginning, and put out alarms, then a lot fewer people would have gotten sick.

Larry Kramer

#86. I understand the frustration of the community, i want citizens to know exactly how it happened, and if necessary, I will ensure that we hold the right people accountable.

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

#87. Do not expect, my friend, that the whole world will rejoice if you become Christian. You will probably receive enmity and hatred and persecution from certain people. It happened in the case of our Lord, and His followers must always be ready to meet it.

Martyn

#88. It happened every single day in Brooklyn: awaken to fresh glory, fall asleep to blight and ruin.

Kate Christensen

#89. In a way, I'm kind of a bystander looking at this phenomenon that is ABBA, which is still around, and that I thought would be finished in 1981 and forgotten. I'm amazed how this could happen, and I don't know why it happened. I'm just grateful and humble. I just sit back and enjoy.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

#90. It was enough to marvel at the end of a cycle of reprisals. How seldom it happened, in a long-standing war of hatred, that one side said, "Enough, I deserved that. Let it end here.

Laini Taylor

#91. I didn't want to miss the euphoria. I haven't, have I? You said it happened at the second-month mark.

Lily King

#92. I'd often wondered what would I do if I were ever traded, because it happened many, many times.

Curt Flood

#93. It happened in the autumn of the year, when murder feels at home, because so many other things are dying.

Phillip DePoy

#94. He said he would come in,' the White Queen went on, 'because he was looking for a hippopotamus. Now, as it happened, there wasn't such a thing in the house, that morning.'
Is there generally?' Alice asked in an astonished tone.
Well, only on Thursdays,' said the Queen.

Lewis Carroll

#95. Some period of time later you look up and say, "That concern was right on the mark; it happened exactly as I thought it would." So that's been really helpful to recognize.

Mitchell Baker

#96. BECAUSE A BARN JUST FELL OUT OF THE SKY AND LANDED ON TOP OF ME!" the Tin Woodman yelled. "I DOUBT YOU'D BE TAKING IT ANY BETTER IF IT HAPPENED TO YOU!

Chris Colfer

#97. It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense.

Jon Secada

#98. Sometimes I just think of an image. Basically, I see an image in front of me. My eyes are open, but I visualize an image, very truthfully. It happened with all my movies the same way.

Juan Diego Solanas

#99. He's only been here six weeks. Nobody else has a clue what we did, and it happened seventeen years ago. There's no way he could have found out in six weeks. No way. He must be talking about something else.

Liliana Hart

#100. I took it as it came and it happened to be very nice.

Gene Kelly