Happened Quotes - Page 18

• Thank you... fat dude with giant headphones on the subway, for looking like what would've happened if Jabba the Hutt mated with Princess Leia.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Princess, Giants, Subway

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• Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.

  Brett Favre

  Names, People, Tragedy

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview With Suzy Kolber, www.espn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• Fatherhood is the most amazing thing that could ever have happened in my life.

  Corey Feldman

  Fatherhood, Most Amazing, Amazing Things

  "Corey Feldman Exclusive Interview - LOST BOYS: THE TRIBE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 8, 2008.

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• Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. When it's a question of typography, why not? Poets have done beautiful things with typography - Apollinaire's 'Calligrammes,' that sort of thing.

  James Fenton

  Beautiful, Lyric Poetry, Musical

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• For my first show at 'SNL', I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn't getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, 'Okay, that happened, and I did not die.' You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.

  Tina Fey

  Inspirational, Laughing, Bills

  "Funny girl". www.seventeen.com. January 24, 2008.

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• All the big revolutions, whether it's the Industrial Revolution, the Arab Spring, those changes happened by economic and social shifts brought about by the people's voices, and those things weren't voted for. Most of our changes today are brought about through technology, not by voting.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Spring, Technology, Voice

  "Lupe Fiasco on Freedom". Interview with Lisa Bonner, www.ebony.com. June 28, 2012.

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• Da Pak was a group out of Chicago. It was a put-together group. We actually met for the first time at this showcase. They were like 'Yo, you should do a song together.' So we did. It just so happened that the name of the song was 'Wolf Pak.' They said, 'Y'all should be a group called Da Pak, and here's a record deal.'

  Lupe Fiasco

  Song, Names, Together

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 31, 2006.

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• I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Funny, Thinking, Patterns

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• Castle isn't really affected emotionally by murder. He's thrilled about, 'Oh, my God, I wonder how this happened?'

  Nathan Fillion

  Castles, Wonder, Murder

  "Nathan Fillion Interview CASTLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 19, 2010.

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• I had an Indiana Jones fedora that I loved. I don't know what happened to it. I don't know where it went. Wish I had it back. Whoever's got it, you suck.

  Nathan Fillion

  Wish, Indiana, Fedoras

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• I told myself a while back, 'Love what you do, but don't fall in love with what you do.' That way you won't be brokenhearted if ever it gets canceled five episodes in - which has happened to me.

  Nathan Fillion

  Falling In Love, Back Love, Way

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• There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Use, Antibiotics, Health Professionals

  "Eating animals is making us sick" by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.cnn.com. October 28, 2009.

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• Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first summer after I learned to drive. Z happened the weekend after I landed my first job. We remember events by positioning them in time relative to other events.

  Joshua Foer

  Summer, Jobs, Memories

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• 'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.

  Jodie Foster

  Chickens, Taxi, Weirdo

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• I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors.

  Michael Franti

  Basketball, School, College

  "POP MUSIC : A 'News Junkie' and His Rap : 10 QUESTIONS : MICHAEL FRANTI : Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy". Interview with Dennis Hunt, articles.latimes.com. August 23, 1992.

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• Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.

  Morgan Freeman

  Struggle, Years, Promise

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• Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.

  Jacque Fresco

  Real, Thinking, Should Have

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• What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Rights, Iraq, Records

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• I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

  Clark Gable

  Ohio, Lucky, Right Time

  "The Hollywood Book of Scandals: The Shocking, Often Disgraceful Deeds". Book by James Robert Parish, p. 67, 2004.

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• We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  War, Condolences, America

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• Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

  Neil Gaiman

  Adventure, Dust, Shadow

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• I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Class, People, Rooms

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• For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Germany, Able, Realizing

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• I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really poor! If you look at the whole history of science fiction, what people have said is going to happen, what writers have said is going to happen, and what actually happened - it's terrible.

  William Gibson

  Thinking, People, Important

  "William Gibson on Why Sci-Fi Writers Are (Thankfully) Almost Always Wrong". Interview with Geeta Dayal, www.wired.com. September 13, 2012.

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• We set up one rule in our house, which is, 'Guests of guests cannot bring guests.' That rule was required because that happened one weekend, and we finally said, 'Okay, you know what? That's a little too much.'

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Weekend, House, Guests

  "Elizabeth Gilbert Serves Up a New Classic". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. May 24, 2012.

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