Happenings Quotes - Page 22

• The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Trends, Determined, Impossible

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• But the people of Arizona, the people of America, have been promised that our borders would be secured for years and years and years, with it not happening. And I don't believe the people of America, certainly not the people of Arizona, are ready to discuss anything other at this point in time other than securing our borders.

  Jan Brewer

  Believe, Years, America

  Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 27, 2010.

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• A tune has to resonate with whatever is happening around it.

  Jeff Buckley

  Tunes

  "New Again: Jeff Buckley". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 28, 2013.

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• When playing any song in front of an audience, you're watching them experience it, and it changes. In a lot of ways, it's almost like the music is just the background buzz to what's happening between you and the audience in the room.

  Wes Borland

  Song, Buzz, Way

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• When I came out of service, the first couple of releases didn't really hit so I just took a little hiatus and sat down to see what was happening. I just glued my ears to the radio and then I started writing - the first hit record that came out was "Everybody Loves a Winner.

  William Bell

  Couple, Writing, Records

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• I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see into the future. I don't want to know what's happening next.

  Yancy Butler

  Want, Next, Knows

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• I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening.

  Anne Carson

  Writing, Acceptance, Thinking

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• I don't use the big video screens that a lot of other artists use because personally, I think it's kind of a crutch. I think sometimes it's like watching television as opposed to really getting involved with what is happening onstage and the people in your section.

  Eric Church

  Thinking, Artist, People

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• I've always loved reporting from the field most of all. There's something about doing live TV and being there as it happens that's always appealed to me. I think there's great value to bearing witness to these events as they're actually happening.

  Anderson Cooper

  Thinking, Events, Fields

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

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• I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.

  Caroline Corr

  Band, Particular

  "Caroline Corr of The Corrs". Interview with Billy Amendola, www.moderndrummer.com. May, 2005.

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• There is no better source of real-time news than Twitter. With the constant sharing of news and information, if you're an active Twitter user, there's nothing happening, big or small, that you won't know right away.

  Raymond Arroyo

  Real, News, Information

  "Five Mistakes to Avoid When Networking with Twitter" by Raymond Arroyo, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2012.

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• I think the American people deserve somebody telling them what is really happening in Washington.

  Jack Abramoff

  Thinking, People, Deserve

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• When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.

  Graham Coxon

  London, Stuff, Places To Go

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• 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

  Data, People, Important

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• It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.

  Vijay Mallya

  Judging, India, Sitting

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• I'm really awkward when people recognize me. I'm not good at it, and for the most part it hadn't happened to me until 'True Blood,' and then, all of a sudden, it started happening all the time.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Blood, People, Awkward

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn't mind so much because I was going to have a baby and I was distracted with him anyway, I didn't even think about it that much, well, OK, this is what's happening.

  Rosanne Cash

  Baby, Thinking, Years

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• I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and we're also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing.

  Vince Cable

  Real, Thinking, Greek

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• I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that.

  Adam Driver

  Running, Writing, Branches

  "The GQA: Adam Driver". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. November 28, 2012.

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• I loved couriers. You had this transfer of physical information happening throughout the city and the world. Someone picking up the package, putting it in a bag, going somewhere, taking it out of the bag, giving it to someone else. I thought that was so cool. I wanted to map it, to see that flow on a big screen.

  Jack Dorsey

  Cities, Giving, Flow

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• Twitter was around communication and visualizing what was happening in the world in real-time. Square was allowing everyone to accept the form of payment people have in their pocket today, which is a credit card.

  Jack Dorsey

  Real, Communication, Squares

  Interview with Charlie Rose, charlierose.com. January 10, 2011.

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• I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether it's happening or not. Somebody asked me 'What is acting?' And I said, 'Acting is listening.' And if you ain't listening, nobody's listening.

  Charles Durning

  Play, Listening, Acting

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

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• People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places.

  Edwidge Danticat

  People

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. April 20, 2004.

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• I also hope that with the assistance and expertise of Dome Records, that I will be able to further pierce the UK and European market. I really like playing there and I want to do more! I've found that the audiences get quite involved and really listen to what's happening.

  George Duke

  Domes, Records, Want

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• When people feel that something really special is happening on the stage, things change.

  Gustavo Dudamel

  People, Special, Things Change

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