#happens

As it happens, I have personally been something of an enthusiast for the London Olympic games, mainly on the grounds a) that a bit of wasteland will be made nice and b) that it tends to make everybody happy that their country should be the centre of world attention for a couple of weeks in their life. ↗

— Evan Davis

#been #bit #centre #country #couple

I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#aspirations #began #book #child #done

Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these North Koreans and the Iranians go forward with their nuclear weapons program. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#day #decade #forward #go #going

War is what happens when language fails. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#happens #language #war

When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

#anything #everything #feeling #first #first love

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#game #go #happens #hometown #matter

The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast. ↗

— Daniel J. Bernstein

#damn #fast #give #happens #long

People get DUIs, people get in fights with their boyfriends, it happens, life happens, but it's about being accountable for your actions. I don't know. I'm just not that girl, I don't go to clubs. I'm a pretty normal girl. ↗

— Leslie Bibb

#accountable #actions #being #clubs #fights

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#happens #know #middle #over #people

Sometimes I have these fantasies of just moving to a foreign country and coming back with a full head of hair. Or not even come back! Make a new life there with hair... Change my name, just see what happens. ↗

— Larry David

#change #come #coming #country #even