That's What Happens Quotes

#1. We were girls once. As hard as that is to believe. //Oh you can't see it now--our bodies have stretched and sagged, faces and necks drooping. That's what happens when you get old. Every part of you drops, as if the body is moving closer to where it's from and where it'll return.

Brit Bennett

#2. It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if your song goes really well.

Vance Joy

#3. I like collaboration, I like to incorporate other people's ideas [and] that's what happens when you do a big movie. Unless you're called Stanley Kubrick and you do an independent movie for like $200 million.

Michel Gondry

#4. That's what happens with Millennials. They're so used to getting participation ribbons and trophies for losing, they think everything is owed to them. They're ungrateful.

Jenny Trout

#5. It was quite instant that he wanted Harry's approval. Did you notice that? And the children sort of rescued him this time. It's a great turnabout. That's what happens as your children get older. They do things for you, and it's quite shocking when they do.

Robbie Coltrane

#6. That's what happens in plays, yes? The shit hits the fan.
Edward Albee

Edward Albee

#7. Sometimes that's what happens. No cigarette burns, no bone snaps. Just an irretrievable slipping.

Gillian Flynn

#8. It's better to not set your expectations high. And that's what happens when you have a long career - not every album is going to be record setting.

Scott Weiland

#9. In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.

Dan Shechtman

#10. The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That's what happens in all of them.

Matthew McConaughey

#11. That's what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It's practically what they're for.

Catherynne M Valente

#12. That's what happens when you fall. Everything that was bright about you becomes dark. As brilliant as you once were, that's how evil you become. It's a long way to fall

Cassandra Clare

#13. That's what happens with most comedies. If you watch 10 minutes and there's no joke, then you're disappointed because you're expecting jokes. The same goes for emotional movies. You have to feel something. If you don't feel anything for 10 minutes, you get bored.

Quentin Dupieux

#14. Hadn't hooked up with a random since college and now I could feel whoever it was moving. I guess that's what happens when your work sends you to a conference

Magan Vernon

#15. That's what happens when bodies start slapping.

Tone-Loc

#16. That's what happens when you free people from the restraints of time. They make their own rigid schedule.

Keigo Higashino

#17. Sometimes love is so intense that it turns into this gray area that borders on hate. That's what happens when the people you love have that type of power over you.

Julie Murphy

#18. I had a terrible motorcycle accident, in San Francisco as matter of fact. Doing a picture called ... oh, this is terrible. It's a very well-known film and I can't remember the name. That's what happens when you get older ... I fell off a bridge in San Francisco and was laid up for two years.

William Lucking

#19. that's what happens when you truly love someone and they can't stay with you, the rest of the world comes to a temporary halt, all else is drowned out by the dull thumping of your own broken heart.

Peach Berry

#20. I think that hip-hop is more of an individual effort. That means you're an artist from the streets, they expect you to rap about the streets, because that's what happens there.

Conor Oberst

#21. I want there to be nothing in me that isn't light and pure and good. But of course that's not real. That's what happens when you're a statue in a city square, stripped of any human adornment that can't be cast in bronze.

Elan Mastai

#22. Cancer is a disease of the genome. And that's what happens. You make mistakes in a cell somewhere in your body that causes it to start to grow when it should've stopped, and that's cancer. And those mistakes are mistakes of DNA.

Francis Collins

#23. I was making sure everyone knew Crabtree was a mediocre receiver. And when you try the best corner in the game with a mediocre receiver, that's what happens. I appreciate that he knows that now.

Richard Sherman

#24. That's what happens when you personify hopes and dreams in one person. He becomes nothing more than a literary device.

Marlon James

#25. I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.

Hari Kondabolu

#26. She laid her heart and soul right in your hands
And you stole her every dream and crushed her plans
She never even knew she had a choice
And that's what happens when the only voice she hears is telling her she can't
You stupid boy

Keith Urban

#27. I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you.

Sonya Hartnett

#28. The biggest problem is our lack of "response-ability." That's what happens when money rather than love is the bottom line. People act like idiots.

Marianne Williamson

#29. AI guess that's what happens when you have no Botox, make-up or fake tan. You have expressions instead.

Sophie Kinsella

#30. That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness to deceive them.

Glen Duncan

#31. That's what happens when stars stop fusing hydrogen into helium. They lose their helium, become too heavy, and then fall through the spacetime fabric, leaving the black hole behind them.

Diana Rose

#32. Am I being too critical? That's what happens when you feel shitty about yourself. You turn into a bitch.

Delia Ephron

#33. Well, it's an anomaly! He must have received the wrong dosage. That's what happens when you put these matters in the hands of morons.

Wodke Hawkinson

#34. That's what happens when it snows in Texas lady. It. Freaking. Melts.

Rick Riordan

#35. That's what happens with your first love. It carves a hole in the muscle and fiber, so that you have no choice but to wear it like a birthmark.

Rebecca Tsaros Dickson

#36. That's what happens. You just get on with it. There are no endings.

Kevin Brooks

#37. First you have one sort of life and then you have another. I'm sorry, that must sound odd." "No it doesn't. That's what happens to everybody. You

Anna Quindlen

#38. The laughter that happens when people are truth-telling and showing up and being real - I call that "knowing laughter." That's what happens between people when we recognize the absurdity of the belief that we're alone in anything.

Brene Brown

#39. That's what happens to melodies: they get lost in the air. Just like memories. And the body. Memories and melodies and the body dissolve after we die. A musical instrument is not like the body, not at all: like the soul, it carries on.

Carolina De Robertis

#40. I've been embraced by a new community. That's what happens when you're finally honest about who you are; you find others like you.

Chaz Bono

#41. That's what happens when people get too serious. Feelings get hurt. Hearts get broken. Some people never learn. Don't get serious. It's my number one rule.

Amy Plum

#42. I think that's what happens when you get scared, and you're rushing, and you don't have time. Rather than cut things out and take a chance, and build things up you think are working, you cut everything down a little bit, and everything sort of suffers.

Tom Noonan

#43. I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.

Campbell Scott

#44. But if that's what happens to normal, what hope is there for the rest of us? I ask him.

Gayle Forman

#45. That's what happens when you're angry at people. You make them part of your life. - Garrison Keillor In

Gavin De Becker

#46. That's what happens when you love someone ... you notice and notice and notice.

Cinda Williams Chima

#47. You'd see little shallow graves, lined up, one after the other - babies. That's what happens when measles goes through a nutritionally deficient community. It's a horrible disease, and it spreads incredibly efficiently.

Seth Berkley

#48. That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.

Jack White

#49. Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'

Elvis Presley

#50. Also, I think I'd like to see more out-of-state shows, man. As bad as I hate to say this, I'm looking forward to playing for nobody. That's what happens when you're a guy like me and you travel out to Sacramento, California.

Cody Johnson

#51. Darling, we're going to hurt each other. That's what happens when you're in a relationship." The smile faded from his lips. "It has already happened and yet, here we still are."
- Graham, 'Wheeler

Sara Butler Zalesky

#52. Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience ... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it ... can be a shared experience.

James Taylor

#53. That's what happens when you're responsible for lives other than your own, isn't it? You do what you have to do.

Sarah J. Maas

#54. You're not supposed to have iron bars around you - no one is supposed to have that. You're supposed to fall down hills and get lonely, and find your own food and get wet when it rains. That's what happens when you're alive.

Sonya Hartnett

#55. I have one rave 'New York Times' review framed next to a flop 'Los Angeles Times' review. And it's for the same show. These people watched the same show. That's what happens. They love it, they hate it.

Bruce Vilanch

#56. But that's what happens in life. People find new friends and new sisters. It's called natural selection.

Sophie Kinsella

#57. No matter how your world falls apart-and honey, that's what happens: we all build ourselves a world, and then it falls apart-but no matter how that happens, you still have the kind heart you've had since you were a child, and that's all that really counts.

Kate Bornstein

#58. That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.

Jodi Picoult

#59. That's what happens in the world. You get offered superior contracts.

Brian O'Driscoll

#60. You know I can't go out there. There's daylight outside. (Ravyn) Well, that's what happens when the big yellow ball comes up over the mountains. Amazing isn't it? (Susan)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#61. That's what happens when you force someone to choose. Maybe they pick option A, maybe they pick option B, but most will go for a third option that isn't asking them to pick favorites in the first place.

Lish McBride

#62. So, it didn't do well. But now when I talk to kids who are first seeing it, they're surprised to hear the movie failed at the box office. Sometimes that's what happens.

David Zucker

#63. It seems that England's royal family is running out of money. They are down to just $1.6 million. Well sure, that's what happens when nobody in your family has had a job for the last thousand years.

Jay Leno

#64. There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That's what happens to me every day. My thoughts get off my chest, down my sleeves and onto my pad.

Garson Kanin

#65. That's what happens when you crowd enough folks into the same sandbox: eventually they're gonna start throwing a fit over who gets what part to play with.

Jacob D. Lochner

#66. In real life, people are integrated into society. That's what happens in my books as well. Minor characters don't just walk in and spout lines, they interact and have an effect on the events. It's not an isolated universe.

Stieg Larsson

#67. That's what happens when you get a regular job, other people's shit becomes your problem. 'Course, by the time you got that figured, it's up around your ears and you're just trying to keep your [expletive]ing mouth shut.

Charlie Huston

#68. Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find.
[Quoted by Theodore Sorensen in 'Kennedy']

John F. Kennedy

#69. That's what happens to dreams," Charlotte said. "Life gets in the way.

Jodi Picoult

#70. When you grab all you can get, that's what happens: the more you get, the less you are.

Eugene H. Peterson

#71. he asks me, as if Ruth's become invisible. That's fucked up but that's what happens to women. We grow up into ghosts. No one wants to screw Ruth anymore so she's invisible.

Samantha Hunt

#72. I think anyone about to leave one job not surprisingly would use their knowledge, their experience, their skills drawn from their previous positions to try and earn a living in the future. That's what happens in all interviews.

Geoff Hoon

#73. Nakajima's past would always be there, so the foundation could crumble at any moment. That's what happens, I realized, when people destroy other people.

Banana Yoshimoto

#74. I guess that's what happens when you've lost everything that had any real meaning. You become numb to what's left.

Melyssa Winchester

#75. I don't hear anything."
"Exactly. That's what happens when you *stop talking*.

Marissa Meyer

#76. My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.

Lee Trevino

#77. I'm the last guy left. That's what happens when you live to 84.

Harold Russell

#78. That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.

Michael Lewis

#79. Maybe the memory does play tricks. Increasingly, I'm thinking, 'What was their name? I knew that name yesterday.' I think that's what happens. At some point, I'll forget that I ever worked with Peter Cook, I suppose, and Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller.

Dudley Moore

#80. I don't deny that I get excited, but that's what happens when you're passionate about what you do.

Zak Bagans

#81. Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that's what happens.

Thomas Lennon

#82. For a really long time [before writing the novel], I was watching a lot of serial killer movies and I started to wonder if this was a trend and if other people were doing the same thing. That's what happens when you suddenly have a critical perspective on your own behavior.

Lucy Corin

#83. It's possible to make an organization more efficient without making it better. That's what happens when you drive out slack.

Tom DeMarco

#84. Throughout history, every government that's printed money, the money has eventually gone to its ultimate value which is zero. Remember? The confederate dollar went to zero. The continental went to zero. That's what happens when you have a bank that's allowed to print as much money as it wants to.

Robert Kiyosaki

#85. That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.

Alex Haley

#86. But this is what we do: we dream on, and our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them. That's what happens, like it or not. And because that is what happens, this is what we need: we need a good, smart bear.

John Irving

#87. See, Berkeley has always drawn the nuts and flakes of the academic world. That's what happens when you have a university that offers degrees in both computer science and parapsychology.

Mira Grant

#88. The President said that Gold told him to invade Iraq. You see that's what happens when you mix New Testament and Old Milwaukee.

Bill Maher

#89. Ah youth, youth! That's what happens when you go steeping your soul into Shakespeare

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#90. I mean, comedy's hard. If you go back and look at the first season of 'Seinfeld,' it's a work in progress and that's what happens. It just takes time for people to figure each other out, and figure out timing, and to develop creatively with the writers.

Zachary Knighton

#91. I've seen the future all my life,' she says. 'It tends to work as a paradox, in my experience. You find out something is going to happen, and then you do it because you know that's what happens. It's a chicken-or-the-egg scenario.

Cynthia Hand

#92. It was the best 10 years of my career, in fact they are the only team I ever actually played for. That's what happens when you play for Everton, you forget the rest, the rest means nothing.

Duncan Ferguson

#93. That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.

Anthony Hopkins

#94. My father was a man of the theater. I grew up in a theater family. As a young man, as a boy, I gypsied around with my siblings and my parents to, like, eight different towns, went to eight different schools. All those things were extremely formative, and I think that's what happens.

John Lithgow

#95. Punish you for what?" said Jack.
"Everything! Nothing. I don't know. That's the problem," said Holly. "That's what happens when you grow up the way I did. You spend the rest of your life just waiting for God to smite the shit out of you.

Sarah Dunn

#96. That's what happens. Governments fuck you around. People fuck you around. By the time they're done, you don't know who you are. Especially if you weren't sure to begin with.

Sebastian Rotella

#97. See, lady, that's what happens to snow in Texas. It- freaking- melts.

Rick Riordan

#98. That's what happens when you're really concentrating. Time stands still. Time flies!

Kevin Crossley-Holland

#99. Howling, are you?" the Indian said. "There it is for you, then. That's what happens, that's what they say: There's not a wolf alive that can't tame a man.

Denis Johnson

#100. I didn't go to the special screening on a spaceship where everybody goes to have their special screeningsEverybody knows that's what happens in Hollywood.

John Krasinski