Happening Quotes

The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.
Abel Ferrara

Happen, Secret, Film

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
Aaron Allston

Else, Between, Comedy

It's shameful what's happening in this country in terms of what we deny our children.
Kevin Eubanks

Children, Country, Deny

There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.
Irvine Welsh

Society, Sad, Stuff

When you play a character you have to ask yourself, 'Can I make sense of what's happening here? Is this authentic?'
Stephen Moyer

Yourself, Character, Play

There are hundreds of fine journalists who regularly inform us of what is happening in the world around us; and innumerable commentators who provide intelligent and objective insight on public policy matters.
Bob Barr

Around, Public, Matters

In issues of recent ethnic wars and genocides - particularly if you look at Darfur - one of the most remarkable things is our inability to act, still, despite the years of analyzing and re-analyzing what it does to subsequent generations. We still find a massive inability to step in and step up to the plate, when genocide is happening as we speak.
Stephen Daldry

Find, Speak, Act

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

Life, Single, Different

My web site is so fresh. The paint is still wet, but stay tuned, because I have lots of personal things, specifically about what is happening day-to-day, that I will keep updating daily.
David Hasselhoff

Daily, Keep, Personal

It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here.
Ruben Blades

America, Here, Almost

If I can introduce someone to something new, as is constantly happening to me, then I am elated.
Trevor Dunn

Someone, Constantly, Elated

In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.
Yahoo Serious

Culture, Bit, Careful

There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside.
Warwick Davis

Movies, Nothing, Everything

From what I hear is happening, young Indian boxers have started to do well on the world stage and started to gain the attention of the general audience.
Evander Holyfield

Young, Attention, Started

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

Smart, Big, Universe

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

Funny, Cannot, Hell

I always wanted to get out of Tokyo and in 1977, New York seemed like the most interesting place to visit. I didn't intend to live here- I just wanted to get out and see what was happening. I just happened to stay here then.
Ikue Mori

Live, Place, Here

When I was little, I would always try and look into the television screen along the sides. I kept thinking if you looked in there, you could see what was happening off camera.
Andrea Riseborough

Thinking, Try, Off

Well, I think in trying to make life seem real enough that one is moved to do something about the more atrocious things. By going really far afield into a completely fake world, maybe there's a chance to make things resonant somehow - or in this case, truly terrifying. To make it as bad as the real stuff that's happening.
Jenny Holzer

Life, Bad, Fake

Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street.
Steven Soderbergh

Move, Top, Street

As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.
Laurel Clark

Knowledge, Help, Important

I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is.
Laurel Clark

Health, Problems, Once

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

Someone, Why, Sometimes

The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before.
Kevin Spacey

School, Before, Between

I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.
Eduard Shevardnadze

History, Future, Today

That still has to be there. And so, it's kind of an interesting question you brought up. Because, on the one hand, yeah, it'd be lovely. I certainly don't see that happening. In fact, I see the opposite happening.
Danny Elfman

Lovely, Fact, Question

My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.
Barry Manilow

Music, Goal, Actually

I love the idea of something beautiful happening, and then it being abrasively cut into. Because in a way it's similar to switching channels or surfing the web; I like people getting lulled into something and then taking them somewhere else.
Reggie Watts

Love, Beautiful, Else

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

Time, Great, Laugh

There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.
Dan Harmon

Women, Job, Writing

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