#happened

It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working. ↗

— Rosa Parks

#day #demand #driver #feel #full

The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space. ↗

— Maxfield Parrish

#color #experience #give #happened #hard

I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#bad #both #by the time #deep #develop

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth. ↗

— V. S. Pritchett

#before #born #concerned #family #far

My first in, my first break, was I met a director and got to talking with her, and she happened to be casting this movie that she had written. That was ten years ago. That got me to Hollywood. I got paid $700 bucks. ↗

— Chris Pratt

#break #bucks #casting #director #first

A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#before #comes #compare #happened #nothing

Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened. ↗

— Patricia Richardson

#centered #children #control #cruise #getting

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life. ↗

— Wilma Rudolph

#happened #life #really #sometimes #takes

I regret what happened. I saw no other possibility to achieve my goal. It was not hooliganism. ↗

— Mathias Rust

#goal #happened #i #other #possibility

I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life. ↗

— R. A. Salvatore

#connect #even #excite #getting #handed