Only in America can a Barack Obama happen. Only in America can a Don King happen.
Dream big, but don't be upset if it doesn't happen.
Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
I'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen.
When I went back home to Seattle after filming 'Dune' in Mexico, I thought, 'Did this really happen?'
I'm a writer; as soon as I imagine what would happen if I found the fountain of youth, it turns into a dystopia in my head.
What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.
I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration.
Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them.
I happen to represent Enron here in Houston. We have many good corporate citizens here in Houston. Enron happened to have been one.
The method in which 'Vadachennai' is narrated gives a feeling as if you are travelling with the characters to the different eras where the various situations happen.
In 1936, John Maynard Keynes predicted the 'euthanasia of the rentier' before the end of the 20th century. It did not happen.
What is clear is that stalking can happen to anyone. Doctors are targeted by patients, people in the public eye are watched by obsessed fans, and ex-wives are followed by former husbands.
I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.
What would happen in the U.S. to terrorists who are not citizens? In less than 24 hours, they would be rounded up, taken to the airport and expelled.
The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.
I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordinary.
We had no idea that things like Facebook and Twitter, and all these other concepts, would ever happen.
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
