A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.
~By Will Ferrell ~
I just try not to subscribe to the ways of celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm a working actor. A lot of the events - the parties and the premieres that people go to to get noticed - I'm just not into. I'll hang out with my friends, go see punk shows, read at home. At the same time, I have a production company, which is a lot of work.
~By Milo Ventimiglia ~
Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
~By Wilson Mizner ~
You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.
~By Sri Chinmoy ~
Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.
~By Josh McDowell ~
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
~By Russell Baker ~
Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.
~By Peter Agre ~
The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, they're going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him.
~By Jon Stewart ~
Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took.
~By Stephen Harper ~
You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.
~By Harry Browne ~
I did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again.
~By David Blunkett ~
The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.
~By Christopher Darden ~
One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events.
~By David Brin ~
The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world.
~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~
An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.
~By Lion Feuchtwanger ~
Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
~By Alice Meynell ~
Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end.
~By Charlton Heston ~
Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
~By William James ~
I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.
~By Lanford Wilson ~
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
~By Amelia Barr ~
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
You kind of hope that the events themselves are interesting. I think that's what you have to hope for, that on a broad level it's an interesting story.
~By Chester Brown ~
If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact.
~By Jurgen Habermas ~
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
~By Claude Debussy ~
Most of our history in space has been communicated in terms of action - what people do, a chronological list of events which have transpired - as opposed to the human experience of having done those things.
~By Story Musgrave ~
The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly.
~By Harry Reasoner ~
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
~By Robert A. Heinlein ~
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
~By Bodhidharma ~
The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the absence of justice in executing the international legitimacy resolutions, regarding the Israeli Arab cause and the oppression on Palestinians by Israelis.
~By Ali A. Saleh ~
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
~By Andre Breton ~
Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them.
~By Lee H. Hamilton ~
The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.
~By Cat Stevens ~
I have always been honest about my recollection of events.
~By David Blunkett ~
A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.
~By Peter Cooper ~
I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.
~By Jasper Johns ~
It was a show where you were given a quote out of current events and you had to identify who said it. I was reading eight newspapers a day and had compiled a file of about 300 quotes. I really had to do my research. The White House press didn't have to bone up on any of it.
~By June Lockhart ~
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
Events like this mean we can give something back to the people that support us, and hopefully everyone will have a great day and we can put on a good show for them.
~By Nelson Piquet ~
Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day.
~By Daniel Boone ~
I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.
~By James A. Garfield ~
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
~By Tony Robbins ~
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
~By Andre Gide ~
The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.
~By Arthur Conan Doyle ~
Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.
~By Allen Klein ~
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
~By John Drinkwater ~
For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.
~By John Burns ~
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
~By Groucho Marx ~
By moving them vertically, a representative mean curve could be formed, and individual events were then characterized by individual logarithmic differences from the standard curve.
~By Charles Francis Richter ~
All things being equal, if we could simulate the same scenario, he has a lot more difficult task. He's elected to swim six individual events, as opposed to what I elected to do, which was four.
~By Mark Spitz ~
The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change.
~By Edward Levi ~
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
~By Charles de Montesquieu ~
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.
~By Thomas Lynch ~
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
~By Dan O'Brien ~
No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.
~By Karlheinz Stockhausen ~
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs.
~By Ed Pastor ~
Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.
~By Jerry B. Jenkins ~
One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.
~By Fritz Kreisler ~
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
~By Wilhelm von Humboldt ~
Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.
~By Edward Hoagland ~
I stopped playing in Jr. events when I was 12 and played women's.
~By Natalie Gulbis ~
Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.
~By Walter Lord ~
But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes.
~By John T. Flynn ~
Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don't want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and characters as realistically as you can.
~By James D'arcy ~
That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.
~By Bernhard Langer ~
There is a time when we must firmly choose the course which we will follow or the endless drift of events will make the decision for us.
~By Herbert Prochnow ~
None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.
~By Vaclav Havel ~
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
~By Euripides ~
It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us.
~By Theodor Herzl ~
What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve.
~By Tom Brokaw ~
Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.
~By Alanis Morissette ~
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future.
~By Maurice Ashley ~
I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.
~By Stephen Hopkins ~
News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.
~By Jessica Savitch ~
The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken.
~By Catherine McCormack ~
Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events.
~By Dario Fo ~
I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and what have you, but there was nothing as intimidating as speaking with Billy Graham.
~By Pat Summerall ~
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
~By Albert Einstein ~
You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
~By Og Mandino ~
I am both stunned and appalled that Pat Robertson would claim to know the mind of God concerning whether particular events... were the judgments of God.
~By Richard Land ~
The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.
~By Enya ~
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
~By Jefferson Davis ~
No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
Pictures can and do make a difference. Strong images of historical events do have an impact on society. They can help with change.
~By Charles Moore ~
A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.
~By John Lothrop Motley ~
Rock 'n' roll... but I also like sporting events a lot. I love Mike Piazza.
~By Angie Everhart ~
To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.
~By Teresa de Lauretis ~
There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.
~By Edward Zwick ~
Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
~By Samuel Butler ~
It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
~By Barbara Sher ~
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