Happen Quotes

It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times.

Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.

I know little stories that happen to people around me, and I can repeat that in a way that has some color.

My motto has always been that you can't say, 'Oh, it won't happen to me.' You have to say, 'That can happen to me.' So always be aware that things can happen.

I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

I've never been monogamous. It might happen, but it never has yet. I don't understand women, I'm off that kick.

There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.

I think if I could be any superhero, it'd probably be my mom... but I don't think I'd look too good in high heels, so it's not gonna happen.

Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.

I'm just working and having a good time and seeing what develops, which is so awesome, because you don't know what's going to happen, and I'm letting myself do that a lot more than I ever have.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.

It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.

I haven't really met anyone else who has influenced me, but you never know, it could happen next year or next month. I just like to go with the spur of the moment.

I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it.

And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed.

There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen!

Good things happen when you meet strangers.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

In dream consciousness... we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.

Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.

If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.

A gay man can be friends with a straight man. That can happen.

Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.

I'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen.

Because too much of my life was spent waiting to be seen. Hoping to be seen, hoping to be picked. Once you realize that you aren't looked at that way any more, other things start to happen and you have to depend on other things to get by.