Top 400 Happening Quotes

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn’t find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
In voiceover, all you have to worry about is your voice and practicing with your voice and then being able to understand what the situation and whatnot is happening. And you have endless amounts of film to perfect the character.
Atticus Shaffer
I just feel like, with rappers, there’s so much complacency. It’s like, ‘Oh, I’m a rapper. I’m successful. I make money. That’s all that matters.’ But there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you’re aware of it, it’s happening.
J. Cole
I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of coun

I don’t care what’s happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven’t in a long time.
Steve Earle
Every minute counts. Being on time or not can mean the difference of a win or a loss and even of something positive or negative happening in life.
Stan Wawrinka
It’s such a pleasure to work in these movies, it’s almost like it’s not really happening.
Fred Willard
Pretty soon we’ll have robots in our society, you’re going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people – this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.
Jose Padilha
The danger of what’s happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going to be defeated. And that is to bring consensus to big issues in this country so that we have a reasoned and thoughtful approach and that the American public buys into it.
Tom Coburn
One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed.
Henry Rollins
You have to understand who your customer is and her motivations and marry it to what’s happening in the outside world.
Mindy Grossman
The next day I was in my school’s production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn’t recognized before.
Kevin Spacey
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Don’t store unnecessary data, keep an eye on what’s happening, and don’t take unnecessary risks.
Chris Bell
As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what’s happening.
Felicity Kendal
Let’s be honest. The powers that be all of a sudden realize that there’s a lot of money to be made from the Latino market. It all comes down to economics. That’s what’s happening. So what! We’re in style. I mean, that’s silly, but I’m taking full advantage of that.
Paula Garces
But I think what Liam said just kind of hit it spot on, that the people in the capital are brainwashed and such a disconnect with what’s actually happening. They don’t realize what if it was their kids that were being put into the games? They just don’t have the mindset to have that kind of compassion for people.
Josh Hutcherson
I’m an actor, so sometimes there are moments where I think about everything that’s happening and I want to cry. I’m doing what I love and I will be doing it for a very, very long time – and it’s amazing. A lot of people don’t get to do that.
Ashley Greene
You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.
Sammy Sosa
The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
Aaron Allston
The reality is that de-carbonisation is not happening fast enough.
Jamais Cascio
The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean.
John M. Ford
I’m a big fan of gallows humor. When my aunt passed away, she was in a coma for a day before my cousins pulled the plug. And the amount of joking and base humor that went on that day around her bed was so insane. It’s crazy how people talk when something horrible is happening.
Amanda Peet
When I cut the feet out of my pantyhose that one time, I saw it as my sign. I had been visualizing being self employed prior to this happening. It was my mental preparation meeting the opportunity in that moment.
Sara Blakely
My maw died when I was 20. You tune into the radio or the telly and life goes on. Things keep on happening. The world doesnae stop.
Limmy
If you’re hit with a lawsuit that’s untrue and the reasons you’re hit with it aren’t clear to you, there’s a very big inclination on people’s part to want to take responsibility for it – that this must be happening because I’m a terrible person, I did something, and I’m getting repaid for it.
Sean Young
The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
Jonathan Safran Foer
I think every interaction I have, there’s something I walk away going, Oh my God, I sound like a jerk. It’s constantly happening.
Tim Robinson
Ah yes, the paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it’s killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence.
Emma Donoghue
What is happening with automation and globalization, that’s not going away.
Campbell Brown
At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn’t know it was happening until it was over.
Noah Baumbach
By the time I was in high school, Roe v. Wade had passed, so that was also happening; girls were getting pregnant and getting abortions – and that happened in my school too.
Annette Bening
Not only the style, but the way in which you don’t exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred – then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash.
Nicholas Mosley
If I’m going east and west, nothing’s happening.
Jamal Lewis
The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don’t give the students an idea of what’s happening.
Brian De Palma
Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition

Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion.
Tony Campolo
So for you people who are filled with fear that I might someday be released: breathe easy, I don’t see it happening.
Charles Manson
Literature is reflecting what is happening in life. More and more women are having relationships with younger men. It’s partly that women are not losing their figures now.
Helen McCrory
I have been described as the grandfather of climate change. In fact, I am just a grandfather and I do not want my grandchildren to say that grandpa understood what was happening but didn’t make it clear.
James Hansen
I’m a little bit allergic to the whole brand thing to be honest but maybe it’s just happening around me and I’m not really aware of it.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
In the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics. That isn’t happening anymore.
Rush Limbaugh
Certainly there’s got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening.
Josh Schwartz
I do try to keep my show very improvisational. I don’t work off a set list; I like to keep it more in the moment. I like to have information about where I’m going, what might be happening in that particular region as well. I like for people to feel like the show is for them.
Dane Cook
You couldn’t define the ’80s when the ’80s were happening. We kept changing. We had shoulder pads, then we didn’t. It was revealing, and then it was decoration. It was a lot of things at once. It was defined when it was over.
Donatella Versace
Brooklyn’s good. Brooklyn’s funky. Brooklyn’s happening.
Waris Dirie
There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.
David Attenborough
If I realize that actually there’s quantum mechanics happening around us all the time in some macroscopic, interconnected way, then that doesn’t change my perception of it, that doesn’t change my interaction with it; it just changes how I view my interaction.
Aaron D. O’Connell
I enjoy life when things are happening. I don’t care if it’s good things or bad things. That means you’re alive.
Joan Rivers
Sleeping at night is not a specialty of entrepreneurs. The entrepreneur who is sleeping soundly, something bad is happening to that person; they just don’t know it’s happening yet.
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening.
Gavin MacLeod
And that’s really what’s happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We’re supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.
Sharron Angle
I’m always doing something that ain’t happening, and I’m always happening when there ain’t nothing going on.
J. J. Cale
If we become aware of what’s happening before we act, behaviour becomes a function of choice rather than a result of an impulse or trigger. You begin to control your world more as opposed to the outside world controlling you.
Marshall Goldsmith
The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what’s happening up there.
K. D. Lang
It’s no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, ‘What’s the point?’
M. Ward
We have enough to worry about with what’s happening in our nation to worry about what’s happening in California. Keep your feet grounded in your own backyard and together we’re going to build communities that work.
Sher Valenzuela