#things happen

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#attention #back #come #had #happen

I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile. ↗

— Alton Brown

#down #educational #entertaining #food #got

Good things happen when you get your priorities straight. ↗

— Scott Caan

#good #good things #happen #priorities #straight

I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#churchill #cynical #day #decades #every

But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean? ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#agree #bad #been #enjoy #getting

Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't. ↗

— Anne Dudley

#feature #happen #idea #instrumentation #particular

There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen. ↗

— Bryan White

#know #many #never #people #reason

There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them. ↗

— Jack White

#allowed #being #catholic #catholic guilt #enjoy

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#analysis #bother #does #familiar #familiar things

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

#get #goes #happen #i #memory