Quotes About Things Happening

#1. 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

#2. What's called art now probably has some legitimate things happening in it, but I've become more and more distrustful of a lot of it because it seems like an extension of the fashion trade and the stock market.

Art Spiegelman

#3. I'm pretty good at seeing like a lot of different things happening at once and putting them in a pattern and figuring out how you can rearrange it so it might have a better outcome.

William J. Clinton

#4. I'm able to really enjoy the wonderful things happening to me and that's a great blessing.

Jeremy Renner

#5. Writing is the only thing that keeps my mind away from the sad things happening around me.

Muna Imady

#6. I knew the things happening in my life would eventually define my future, and I guess I hoped no matter what occurred those things wouldn't ultimately define me.

S.R. Grey

#7. I have just accepted certain things and it makes it easier. I accept I will get injured. I accept I cannot win every race. I work hard to decrease the chances of those things happening but I accept they will happen. A lot of people don't accept it. They get injured, they go crazy.

Usain Bolt

#8. I like to give dimension to shots inside action scenes. It's demanding because you have to rehearse a lot of things happening at the same time and frame all those things in a shot. But I feel like when you accomplish that then you've got a cool action scene.

Jose Padilha

#9. I have a lot of wonderful things happening in my life.

Aras Baskauskas

#10. Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?

M.C. Beaton

#11. I believe in the moment of things and fate and things happening for a reason, so I write things down and I trust it.

Ellie Goulding

#12. I like to joke that you usually write more books before death than after death, so that's why I'm doing it. But really, I remain engaged with ideas. There are so many things happening that turn me on and I just want to examine them.

T.C. Boyle

#13. Life's still stupid but we got free of story out here under the beeches and the Big Dipper. We had enough of it, of things happening one after another and no end in sight. Of reversals and falling in love and tragic flaws, and by God if I see another motif in my business I will shoot it dead.

Catherynne M Valente

#14. In film, life-and-death struggles make you sit up, lean forward a little bit. They amplify things happening, in smaller ways, in all of us. These things show up in relationships. They show up in struggles and bring them to a critical point.

David Lynch

#15. Sometimes life offers you up that kind of dichotomy, that soul-shearing rift of two very different things happening at once.

Lish McBride

#16. Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body

B.K.S. Iyengar

#17. I'm a believer in things happening for a reason.

Fleur East

#18. The bad, icky and stinky things that happen sometimes should never be allowed to have an adverse effect over the good, lovely and beautiful things happening everyday.

Azhar Ali

#19. I don't really get excited about good things happening to me.

Joe Bradley

#20. Never stop reading, Luke. The words from the pages make me feel like I'm right there, like I can smell the sea and hear the wind. It's my one regret that I didn't read much over the years. How can you learn about all the things happening in the world if you don't read?

Lea Davey

#21. News is unusual things happening - And usual things happening [ ... ] But news is mainly what someone somewhere doesn't want you to put in the paper - Except that sometimes it isn't [ ... ] News, [ ... ] all depends. But you'll know it when you see it.

Terry Pratchett

#22. We're repeating the same things all the time; there aren't many new things happening in this life.

Rokia Traore

#23. The long-distance run of an early morning makes me think that every run like this is a life- a little life, I know- but a life as full of misery and happiness and things happening as you can ever get really around yourself

Alan Sillitoe

#24. One lone bubble floated toward her. In its curves, she saw the reflection of every color around her, a circular prism. She was that bubble. Tossed by the win in every direction. Reflecting all the people around her, all the things happening to her. All but herself.

Jessica Shook

#25. Things just happen, one after another. They don't care who knows. But history ... ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise it's not history. It's just ... well, things happening one after another.

Terry Pratchett

#26. There's beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be able to open your eyes and witness it. Some days, that's harder than others.

Sarah McLachlan

#27. I wanted to do a war movie, a western and an alien movie. In reality, there are a lot of ugly things happening in the world.

Aaron Eckhart

#28. There will be a lot of fun things happening. Looking forward to singing on the ship!

Scotty McCreery

#29. Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening.

John Kricfalusi

#30. I sometimes wish we could have, over the next five or ten years, a lot of horrid things happening-you know, like tornadoes in the Midwest and so forth-that would get people very concerned about climate change.

Thomas Schelling

#31. The Old West, mysterious, serious, with great beauty at every vista and terrible things happening whenever any people appeared.)

Amy Bloom

#32. In America you had the forced removal of the native onto reservations coupled with slavery followed by segregation. Imagine all three of those things happening to the same group of people at the same time. That was apartheid.

Trevor Noah

#33. I don't want to be thought of as somebody who's spiritually ambiguous, but the reality is there's unknown things happening. I'm not ready to point at what they are or what the reason is, but I know they exist.

Shane Carruth

#34. At my shows you have time to relax, time to just enjoy something really dumb, time to laugh at something that's weird or unexpected and time to think. There's all sorts of things happening and it's great being able to go any way I choose at any given moment.

Reggie Watts

#35. So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.

Sonia Sotomayor

#36. Exploring the different avenues and being open to synchronicity and crazy coincidences and little things happening is part of going on your journey to investigate - and the little jewels you might find along the way, my job is to bring those back home and put them on my album.

Bat For Lashes

#37. I'd been living on dreams so long it was hard to know if any one of the fifteen things happening inside my head was real.

Brenna Yovanoff

#38. Yeah, listen, listen, gotta dash, things happening--
well, four things--
well, four things and a lizard.

David Tennant

#39. I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life.

Jennifer Weiner

#40. For Magic to happen in our lives, we need to be open minded about magical things happening

Steven Aitchison

#41. The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean.

John M. Ford

#42. I don't have a problem with the media focusing on bad things happening. That's our job, after all. But I think it's incomplete, and I would even say it's inaccurate, to only portray a place through its tragedies.

Annia Ciezadlo

#43. No matter how far we go into the future, there will always be new things happening, new information coming in, new worlds to explore, a constantly expanding domain of life, consciousness, and memory.

Freeman Dyson

#44. I'm a workaholic because I don't want to not work. When you come from basically nothing and you have so much good things happening for you sometimes you have to sacrifice.

Nelly

#45. I will not be browbeaten, however nicely you do it. I am done with things happening to me. From here on out, I am going to happen to things.

Courtney Milan

#46. I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.

Harmony Korine

#47. I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!

Karin Slaughter

#48. The fact is there are a lot of things happening at the federal level that are absolutely beyond the jurisdiction of the Constitution. This is power that should be shifted back to the states, whether it's the EPA - there is no role at the federal level for the Department of Education.

Mike Huckabee

#49. There are always scary things happening in the world. There are always wonderful things happening. And it's up to you to decide how you're going to approach the world ... how you're going to live in it, and what you're going to do.
- Jo Ellen Chapman

Deborah Wiles

#50. I visualized a lot of things happening to me, because I was a lonely kid because I didn't understand anything about school.

Anthony Hopkins

#51. There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible.

Auberon Waugh

#52. The oceans are pretty unexplored places and the final frontier on our planet; also because they're the source of life. There are dramatic things happening to them at the moment, and they're worth exploring.

Peter Sarsgaard

#53. Twitter is the first information that I ingest in the morning. When there are important things happening, friends of mine who follow news feeds will report on it, so I find out about most major news on Twitter.

Alison Brie

#54. Vimes took the view that life was so full of things happening erraticaly in all directions, that the chance of any of them making some kind of relevant sense were remote in the extreme.

Terry Pratchett

#55. If we are only willing to open our hearts and minds to the spirit of Christmas, we will recognize wonderful things happening around us.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#56. But we had a pretty diversified portfolio of businesses around the world and things tended to offset each other. But one or two years ago, we had a lot of things happening at the same time.

Jim Cantalupo

#57. You've got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happening and stuff like that lets it down. I feel sad for them.

Robbie Williams

#58. I find that I have painted my life - things happening in my life - without knowing.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#59. Here I am, a product of something really vicious, product of the Atlantic slave trade. And yet, I give nary a thought to some of the awful things happening right now in the world.

Jamaica Kincaid

#60. Sometimes good fortune is just having fewer messed-up things happening to you.

Colson Whitehead

#61. I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.

Tadao Ando

#62. You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way - and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way.

Christopher Walken

#63. I feel I need a lot of contrast, so I have all these things happening, but they're all necessary to make me feel satisfied. It's got to be this big pot happening, with everything boiling at once.

Dave Cooper

#64. One of the biggest things happening in the art world is this idea of expansion. No one embodies this aspect of what art is becoming better than James Franco.

Jeffrey Deitch

#65. There's a lot of political things happening out there that I'd really have to get away from.

Jimi Hendrix

#66. It was the fear of good things happening, because they, sooner or later, would lead to something bad.

Samantha Jacobey

#67. Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#68. My father instilled in me that if you don't see things happening the way you want them to, you get out there and make them happen.

Susan Powter

#69. I believe in magical things happening and spiritual goings on. Sometimes the most mundane things can surprise you and be magical.

Rae Morris

#70. People who meditate deeply find wonderful things happening in their life all the time.

Frederick Lenz

#71. If you manage a situation, not just things happening there, people should feel elevated just being in that space. Above all, you must feel wonderful being there.

Jaggi Vasudev

#72. Growing up, I was not used to good things happening to me.

Quinton Aaron

#73. There are a lot of things happening that show us that this, right now, is a time to love.

Stevie Wonder

#74. I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.

Theodore Roosevelt

#75. This earth is exciting. There are so many things happening.

Shailene Woodley

#76. I've never been a method actress; I've never been that person that wants to imagine horrible things happening in your own life in order to exploit them for your emotional being in the movie. I'm just not good at doing that.

Isla Fisher

#77. If I could go back and talk to the me who was just starting to do comedy, I would have told myself to relax and not worry about things happening right away. That's a mistake a lot of people make - they think a year is a long time and it's really not.

Christian Finnegan

#78. I believe in the reality of God the way scientists believe in the reality of electrons. I see things happening that would not happen unless there is a God.

Harold S. Kushner

#79. What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.

David Eagleman

#80. I honestly believe there are good things happening in this world, and I'll spend most of my time trying to find them and bring them to light.

Jesse L. Martin

#81. I still have night terrors about things happening to my son. The worst things cross your mind when you care so much. I keep them at bay as best I can, and it's a struggle for me not to just do everything for him.

Corey Taylor

#82. When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast. There were really weird things happening with my nervous system and my heart and stuff, and it didn't look like I was gonna make it, so I was writing really fast, and then I couldn't write anymore.

John Lurie

#83. We can sit and worry about what's going to happen to us two weeks from now. I'd rather focus on the amazing things happening right in front of us.

Ellen DeGeneres

#84. I have the feeling that there are things happening that are really very interesting things, if we can somehow find the key that makes them visible.

Robert Heinecken

#85. And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them ...

Edith Wharton

#86. There are really exciting things happening in genetic and neurobiology right now, and really looking at the ways in which different not just illnesses, but social conditions and social pressures can actually lead to actual brain changes.

Jonathan Michel Metzl

#87. There are so many people with all kinds of lucky things happening to them, and they don't know how to use it.

Hiroaki Aoki

#88. Now, I've never flown in space; but the folks who have say that on landing day, you know, you've just spent maybe a week and a half, sometimes two weeks in orbit and you're used to the things happening slowly in space.

Duane G. Carey

#89. Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#90. Also one of my heroes is Syd Mead, who designed the vehicles for the first Tron, So, there are so many beautiful things happening here. And working with Joe was great. He's an architect, so I worked with other directors in between who were just about the action

Daniel Simon

#91. Ever since I was a kid, I've always thought it very important to be happy inside. There's a lot of bad things happening in the world, but it's important to try to stay happy and appreciate what you've got, and don't look externally for the happiness.

Ana Ivanovic

#92. I have this belief about things happening organically. I believe life has this organic flow in a way.

Naoko Mori

#93. I spent most of the eighties, most of my life, riding around in somebody else's car, in possession of, or ingested of, something illegal, on my way from something illegal to something illegal with many illegal things happening all around me

Iggy Pop

#94. If it ever seems to us that the world is a place where bad things only happen to good people, it is because we still believe that bad things happening to bad people is a good thing.

Philip K. Jason

#95. Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.

Fareed Zakaria

#96. In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.

Lynda Barry

#97. Rise baby rise. Don't let the bad things happening in your life...keep you down. Bring the warrior out of your soul and keep moving forward in life. Don't look back at the pain. Look forward to the joy and pleasure ahead. Great things are awaiting for you down the road...if you believe!

Timothy Pina

#98. Half of a broadcast show, in my experience, is things happening, and the other half is people talking about how they feel about the things that happened. And so there's this sense of everyone saying their subtext out loud.

Noah Hawley

#99. The reason I write romance is that I like happy endings. The idea, you know, 'It's not literature unless is ends badly,' and I really don't like that. There's enough misery and bad things happening in the world.

Ruth Glick

#100. I am just a ballplayer on vacation. Why are these things happening to me ?

Hal Graff