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Events Quotes

"The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false."

Enya, Irish Musician

"The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images."

Christopher Lasch, American Historian

Events, News, Propaganda

"To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events."

Teresa de Lauretis, Italian Author

Events, Thinking

"Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves."

Queen Victoria, British Royalty

Events, Nerves, Quiet, Trifles

"Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future."

Walter Lord, American Author

"I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have."

Ken Follett, Welsh Author

"Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters."

Elizabeth George, American Author

"The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation."

Phillip E. Johnson, American Educator

Events, Investigation, Reality

"Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity."

Russell Baker, American Journalist

Events, Humanity, Misfortune, Pleasure

"The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

Events, Fact, Results

"I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11."

Lanford Wilson, American Playwright

"At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword."

Richard Cobden, British Businessman

"Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity."

Elsa Maxwell, American Writer

Events, Giving, Humanity

"A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment."

Harry S. Truman, American President

"Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!"

Thomas B. Macaulay, English Historian

Events, May, Reform, Voice

"National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness."

Phyllis Schlafly, American Activist

"But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems."

Paul Berg, American Scientist

"And now the sequence of events in no particular order."

Dan Rather, American Journalist

Events, Now, Order

"By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate."

David Rockefeller, American Businessman

Events, Sensitivity

"That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future."

Anatole France, French Novelist

Events, Future, Man

"Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today."

Walther Bothe, German Physicist

Events, First, Today

"The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times."

John Lothrop Motley, American Historian

Events, Leading

"I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript."

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, American Writer

Events, Information

"It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence."

John Dryden, English Poet

Events, Fortune, Madness, Nothing

"Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last."

Mercy Otis Warren, American Playwright

"Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

Events, Fun, March

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