Happened Quotes - Page 15

I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.

Roseanne Barr

Husband, Real, Writing

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The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment Roseanne dropped out of the top ten, in the seventh of our nine seasons. It was mysteriously instantaneous!

Roseanne Barr

Addiction, Nine, Moments

"And I Should Know ShareThis". nymag.com. May 15, 2011.

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I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.

Lynda Barry

Cartoon, Would Be, Behind My Back

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The older you get, the few slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What happened to them?

Drew Barrymore

Hate, Party, Slumber

"Why Drew Kicks Butt". Interview with Jennifer Kasle Furmaniak, www.cosmopolitan.com. July 16, 2003.

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I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff too,' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels.' Starting my production company was a big turning point for me.

Drew Barrymore

Angel, Men, One Day

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I'm still me even after all that's happened.

Victoria Beckham

Stills

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I didn't go looking to marry an American, it just kinda happened like that.

Kate Beckinsale

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.

Tony Benn

Jesus, Russia, Spain

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I carried my Oscar to bed with me. My first and only three-way happened that night.

Halle Berry

Night, Bed, Three

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When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'

Joe Biden

Greed, Looks, Television

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I loved playing football. In this particular match the ball happened to hit my right eye, the only one which I could see light and colour with.

Andrea Bocelli

Football, Eye, Light

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To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.

Bobby Bowden

Happy, New Year, Years

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In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars.

Lakhdar Brahimi

Giving, Community, Troops

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As a comic and as a nurse, it's important to look calm on the surface when you're absolutely crapping yourself inside. So, if someone is waving a machete at you, which has happened to me when I was a nurse, it's important to make that person feel that you're in control.

Jo Brand

Nurse, Important, Looks

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But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.

Edie Brickell

Looks, Care, Realizing

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The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.

Alton Brown

Kitchen, Chemistry, Physics

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My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.

Alton Brown

Feelings, Committees, Good Eats

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If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.

Les Brown

Strong, Powerful, Past

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I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for a long time, and my wife is English and my kids all have English accents, and every voice I hear is English. I've never intentionally changed my accent at all.

Bill Bryson

Kids, Voice, Long

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We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?

Ken Burns

Hard Times, Understanding, Jazz

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People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.

George W. Bush

Government, People, Would Be

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In the early days of the video game business, everybody played. The question is, what happened? My theory - and I think it's pretty well borne out - is that in the '80s, games got gory, and that lost the women. And then they got complex, and that lost the casual gamer.

Nolan Bushnell

Thinking, Games, Video

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I started this charity, Fashion for Relief, in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina happened. New Orleans was actually the first place I visited in the United States. It was one of my first big jobs, a shoot for British Elle. It was April 14, 1986.

Naomi Campbell

Fashion, Jobs, New Orleans

Interview with Tony Shafrazi, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2010.

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Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.

Tony Campolo

Church, Speak, Certain

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I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.

George Carey

Thinking, September 11, Spurs

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