#occur

Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this petulant wish for ugly flowers and mourners, my mother's old familiar grief. Somebody I love to tend my future grave. Probably this is the wrong thing to be wishing for. ↗

— Karen Russell

#karen-russell #occurrence- #home

It's unclear whether Brauser was trying to hit Franz Josef or Rangi. I hope it was the former. There's one difference between a bully and a hero, I guess: good aim. ↗

— Karen Russell

#karen-russell #occurrence- #home

Even at this altitude, the substitute pilot's bathed in sweat, sweat running down his chin and neck. Fear must be the fountain of youth, because the substitute pilot now looks younger than any of us, doughy and flushed with horror. ↗

— Karen Russell

#karen-russell #occurrence- #home

Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones. ↗

— Robert T. Bakker

#age #big #faring #ice #ice age

I was a child when the March on Washington led by Martin Luther King occurred, and I wanted to hear what was going on. I wanted to be a part of it. I wanted to contribute in the best way I possibly could. ↗

— Andre Braugher

#best way #child #contribute #could #going

A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily. ↗

— Alexander Chase

#daily #occurrence #occurs #shocking

A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#bull market #crash #downturn #heralds #long

Music is always occurring. It is just a matter of marketing, attention, and many other factors, that determines whether people will hear these songs or not. ↗

— Judy Collins

#attention #determines #factors #hear #just

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#everyday #intimate #medical #medical research #occurrence

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#conflict #decision #ever #first #lifetime