Quotes About Something Happening

#1. I like it when you have something happening by coincidence. Just something in a book is enough. But I prefer a fragment of an image so you are far more free to bring in elements of your own.

Dries Van Noten

#2. Coffee is a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup

Gertrude Stein

#3. WKRP [showed] something happening between people-there was something underneath about people trying to help each other out.

Howard Hesseman

#4. I was so completely anxious before I had a child, but now my biggest worry is something happening to her, so anything other than that I can handle. That's not to say I'm calm, because that would be b****cks! I wish it were the case, but it's getting better as I get older.

Anna Friel

#5. That's what nobody realizes. Two seconds are huge. It's the difference between something happening and something not happening. You could take one step too many and fall over the edge of a cliff. It's very dangerous.

Rachel Joyce

#6. Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

Steve Martin

#7. You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else
and whichever is better you print.

Garry Winogrand

#8. There's something happening everyday, but I'm too tired and lazy to write it all down.

Anne Frank

#9. If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

Jodi Picoult

#10. If you don't do anything, you simply end up overwhelmed by something happening.

Matsuri Hino

#11. There's always something happening in the world that creates an opportunity to try to fix a business and build a business.

Richard Rainwater

#12. I think of myself first as a singer, meaning an interpreter. Then I think of myself as a writer. It is an outlet I have to have. I get very hard to live with without something happening to write about.

Oliver

#13. There's also something happening in television similar to what happened in the '80s, when people stopped taking so many drugs and wanted to hear real instruments in music again. I think people want plot, story and characters. Those are more important than having a big star.

Jessica Pare

#14. Every time you wish the sky was something happening to your heart, you lose twice.

Olena Kalytiak Davis

#15. Each piece of dialogue MUST be "something happening" ... The "amusing" for its OWN sake should above all be censored ... The functional use of dialogue for the plot must be the first thing in the writer's mind. Where functional usefulness cannot be established, dialogue must be left out.

Elizabeth Bowen

#16. In 1978, Elizabeth Blackburn, working with Joe Gall, identified the DNA sequence of telomeres. Every time a cell divides, it gets shorter. But telomeres usually don't. So there must be something happening to the telomeres to keep their length in equilibrium.

Carol W. Greider

#17. But believe me, just because the human mind can't imagine something happening ... doesn't mean it won't.

Dan Brown

#18. Things happen every day. You can't spend your whole life trying to guard against something happening. If you do that, in my opinion, you've wasted your life.

Tony Stewart

#19. Well, Well, Well, its certainly a compelling provocative exciting delicious to think about idea, smart people say the universe is so big there must be something statistically it could be likely there could be something happening on some other world.

Jeff Goldblum

#20. I think 'Gasland' is the doorway for a lot of people to see something happening in their backyard and realize the national and global implications.

Josh Fox

#21. I remember the odd sensation of living in the middle of that experience and feeling, simultaneously, like it was something happening at telescopic distance. Like something I was looking at through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars.

Wally Lamb

#22. Impressive lack of something happening, Maurice said nervously. I continued to fire. I

Gini Koch

#23. I was sleeping in a water bed for a couple of years, recommended by my doctor. I was never comfortable in that water bed. In the middle of the night you would hear something happening - water and bubbles. I would always think there was some intelligent life in the water bed.

Jo Nesbo

#24. Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

Wayne Rogers

#25. The downside is the fear.The fear of something happening to her, the pressure of there being two bodies in the world that I want to keep from harm and only being able to watchfully inhabit one of them. I wonder if you know what I mean.I hope you do for your sake.

David Mitchell

#26. You understand reality while everyone else is running around confused and angry and upset because they think reality is something happening to them rather than something they are making every moment with every thought.

Andrew Hussie

#27. If you act out of a paranoid fear of something happening, you will always make that thing happen.

John Green

#28. This larger goal wouldn't be the imitation of education in Universities today, glossed over and concealed by grades and degrees that give the appearance of something happening when, in fact, almost nothing is going on. It would be the real thing.

Robert M. Pirsig

#29. He had hit with his closed fist and knocked her sprawling. It took talent to make Wyatt lose his temper, but Jessie knew just how to do it, and did it mainly just to have something happening. Pouring whiskey from bottle to glass was boring work.

Larry McMurtry

#30. What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in itself something happening, which will, in turn, leave its effect.

Elizabeth Bowen

#31. God is God and He lets things happen and that's all there is to it. But He has reasons, and His reasons for something happening would be more important than a man's reason for questioning whatever it might

Elmore Leonard

#32. I'm always fearful of something happening to people I love. That doesn't go away.

Nicolas Cage

#33. ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It's a serious problem overseas, but it's confusing and frightening.

Joe Biden

#34. There were thousands of households throughout that city and there was something happening in all of them. There was some kind of story in each, but self-contained. No one else knew. No one else cared.

Markus Zusak

#35. Story is something happening to someone you have been led to care about.

Stephen King

#36. I see something happening in the world, and I want to share it. It's why, during 9/11, I wrote every few minutes what I saw happening. It's why I write about meeting Steve Wozniak or Bill Gates or Larry Page.

Robert Scoble

#37. If all is happening perfectly then all that we are feeling is also perfect, which means if there is something happening that feels like it needs to be changed, then change it.

Bryan Kest

#38. I know there's Brooklyn and all the boroughs, but Manhattan specifically is so condensed that the energy is very vibrant. Everywhere you look there is something happening.

Theo James

#39. A lot of locked-room mysteries take time for you to pay attention and see the setup. They aren't thrillers, and they don't move along. The modern mystery story is really faster-paced, and I think modern readers tend to prefer seeing something happening on every other page.

Otto Penzler

#40. When I was 4 or 5, I attended my father's concerts. He very often played Strauss waltzes as encores and I saw something happening with the audience.

Andre Rieu

#41. There's something happening here, I know it. It's right in front of my face, but I just can't see it.

Elmore Leonard

#42. There's something happening in the world that didn't happen before. We are acting like one big brain.

Antonio Banderas

#43. I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that. There must be some kind of philosophical depth rendered into the language, something happening.

Rachel Kushner

#44. All of us in social media and regular media, we're all competing for the same thing, which is this gap between something happening in the world and you knowing about it.

Kevin Systrom

#45. I'm one of those people that, if I hear about something happening, I go crazy. I want to go help.

Lisa Marie Presley

#46. The more you do a stunt, the more you increase the risk of something happening.

Ving Rhames

#47. what people often thought of as instinct, was actually the unconscious brain trying to tell the logical mind that there was something happening which it needed to be aware of.

Scott Chapman

#48. Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision.

Rainbow Rowell

#49. Kit had never had any siblings, never had a mother, had only had Johnny. His father. His father who had died, and he didn't think had ever looked the way Ty looked now, as if the possibility of something happening to Livvy was enough to break him inside.

Cassandra Clare

#50. Something is always happening somewhere.

Mitch Albom

#51. Shutting your eyes and pretending something's not happening doesn't make it not true, Jace.

Cassandra Clare

#52. To praise God is to express our acceptance of something that God is permitting to happen. So to praise God for difficult situations, as sickness or disaster, means literally that we accept its happening, as part of God's plan to reveal His perfect love for us. We

Merlin R. Carothers

#53. It is flat-out strange that something-that anything-is happening at all. There was nothing then a Big Bang, then here we all are. This is extremely weird.

Ken Wilber

#54. As an actor, acting is like playing a sport. You do this thing that's intangible, and while it's happening, it's great. But then when it's done, there's really no tangible product. Someone else is capturing it and turning it into something tangible.

Chris Evans

#55. Knowledge can hurt because you can't turn away from things
anymore. You can't pretend you're blind to what's happening," he
said. "It's a lot easier to ignore something you don't want to accept
than to face it.

Katie Kacvinsky

#56. There's something about moonlight on the body and things happening sort of free and open. Outdoors is something I'm totally game and down for.

Cameron Diaz

#57. Well, something is happening in Queensland that is not happening anywhere else.

Campbell Newman

#58. I'm just another guy who sits there day to day in the office, watching what's happening, and goes, 'This is something that's not our place to decide.' The public needs to decide whether these programs or policies are right or wrong,

Edward Snowden

#59. I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.

Enya

#60. I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

Ray Liotta

#61. It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.

Jonathan Franzen

#62. Definitely, something is happening out there in Internet world at any given moment, but the likelihood that it's something that can't wait until that evening for you to find out about it is very small.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#63. I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgia, and that old America. What happens when something weird starts happening to all these people, something other-worldly, something demonic?

Alexander Koch

#64. Something different was happening to William alright, as if Winkleberry wasn't different enough.

S.Z. Berg

#65. Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn't know about something bad, it wasn't happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.

Orson Scott Card

#66. What a difference from words on a page, or images on a video screen. Surrounding him was one of the oldest fortresses in England, where men had died defending the walls, and something was happening.

Steve Berry

#67. When you see something bad happening out in the world, you should try to help in whatever way you can.

Taylor Swift

#68. I'm sorry, but it appears something more fabulous than your phone call is happening right now. When fabulous levels fall a bit, I'll get back to you. BEEP.

John Green

#69. Acknowledging reality for myself was one thing. Having to explain what as happening - and what was going to happen - to another person was something else entirely. That would make it TOO real.

Gavin Extence

#70. I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.

Kate Grenville

#71. Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

Coco Chanel

#72. There's something better than an 'excuse' for your mistake, which is 'now you know how to stop it from happening again'.

Mohith Agadi

#73. When people start copying your style, you know that something must be happening.

James Hetfield

#74. If something is meant to happen, it will," he pointed out calmly. "And no cat's will is strong enough to stop it from happening.

Erin Hunter

#75. When something unfortunate happens, they tend to respond with: "To me? It's happening to me?" They don't believe they are deserving of bad luck. One of the lessons they're learning is that "life" happens to everyone.

Jan Spiller

#76. There's something odd about working 24/7, being consumed with everything that's happening in Iraq, and then coming back to the country that ordered you over there only to realize that a lot of Americans are not really paying attention.

Phil Klay

#77. It was something I learned then. That you could take the crumpled remains of something destroyed and smooth them into newness. You could pretend certain things weren't happening even if you had seen or felt them. Everything done can be denied.

Nayomi Munaweera

#78. You can also look at your body and think about how the blood flows and the fact that your body is in constant renewal. It is a miracle of creation happening within you every second of the day. This is something to be thankful for.

Celso Cukierkorn

#79. Something good was happening. My life was rising from the ashes, and the sight of it left me feeling something like hopeful.

Katherine Center

#80. When the Taliban took over in 1996, the news of their crimes hit the Toronto papers. As a feminist and as an anti-war activist, I heard about what was happening to women, and I wanted to do something to support those folks.

Deborah Ellis

#81. At Sun, we have a special number you can call if there is something important happening.

James Frank

#82. The circumstance is the incredible part, but I always knew in my heart that something was going to be out there, just for the world to notice me. It sounds so cocky, but it's happening.

Kato Kaelin

#83. You gotta faith it to make it! Looking for a miracle to happen? Consider that perhaps something not happening was your miracle.

Karen Salmansohn

#84. Something terrible is happening to me, Mom," he said, his voice cracking. For the first time all morning, he felt close to tears. "Oh, baby," she said again. "Why couldn't you have gone somewhere else?" "Excuse me?" "I don't want to hear about any more of your problems.

Joe Hill

#85. Jesus wasn't just a great character, a hero figure for subsequent generations to look up to. He was announcing good news - something that was happening and has now happened, something that changes the world. And either he was right or he was wrong.

N. T. Wright

#86. I could've totally cut out your heart before you knew what was happening." "What stopped you?" "I thought Montgomery might've been pissed off at all the blood on the sheets." "Montgomery would never be something as uncouth as pissed off. Annoyed in an icily genteel manner, perhaps.

Nalini Singh

#87. We'd like to have immediate answers to all of our questions. I think medicine in particular. I found it frustrating as a physician sometimes to not be able to tell someone exactly why something was happening to them. There are still so many mysteries in medicine.

Laurel Clark

#88. What interests me about clocks is that everything is hand-made, and yet to the person looking at the clock, something magical is happening that cannot be explained unless you are the clockmaker.

Brian Selznick

#89. Scared people don't really mean what they say, they're just looking for ways to rationalize everything so they have someone or something to blame. They need to have a reason for what's happening because when they have that they can take comfort in knowing it's out of their control.

Chris Dietzel

#90. I'm a sorcerer because I start with nothing, and then, eventually, there is something. And I touch you, I move you, I make you laugh or cry, and you believe in what's happening on the screen, although I always show it's invented.

Michel Ocelot

#91. Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the very moment of what is happening in the living process - and then letting go.

Chogyam Trungpa

#92. New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Johnny Carson

#93. An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.

Mark Twain

#94. It wasn't like the World Trade Center, something vile and astonishing within our own borders, happening to people who'd saved coins of the same currency in their piggybanks when they were children. I knew intellectually that shouldn't make a difference, but it seemed to.

Michael Marshall

#95. A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.

Jean Houston

#96. Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it.

Henri Nouwen

#97. but it scared her, how you could return home in a different body, how something big could be happening inside you and no one even knew it. Her

Brit Bennett

#98. It's the rare happening when actors get together and you have chemistry, connection, just something that works, that's bigger than what's on the page.

Sandra Bullock

#99. Being nervous isn't bad. It just means something important is happening.

Michael Jordan

#100. No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.

Patrice Leconte