Top 400 Happening Quotes

It’s unfortunate that there’s such a disconnect between what’s happening on our legislatures and what the public knows about, the consequences what that means for ourselves, our mothers and our wives.
Sandra Fluke
Everything that’s rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching.
Bob Geldof
Where I come from, if you see your family and friends’ civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!
Cyndi Lauper
I don’t know when the Return of the Living Dead are happening. That’s been on the Internet for years.
Tobe Hooper
When I governed, the overwhelming mindset of the media was to dismiss out of hand any suggestion that anything happening to me was in any way related to gender.
Julia Gillard
There is no debate about whether or not climate change is happening. We will deal with it as a challenge. But we also take it as an opportunity to invest.
Justin Trudeau
It’s about being fair. It’s about Black Lives Matter. Yes, they matter. Everybody counts or nobody counts, and I think if more cops had the philosophy of Harry Bosch, we’d have less of these situations happening.
Michael Connelly
We don't grow as human beings from good things happenin

We don’t grow as human beings from good things happening. We grow from failures.
Carlos Mencia
I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It’s a different driver, this is exactly what’s happening to the cabinet.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
The word’s out: I’m a woman, and I’m going to have trouble backing off on that. I am what I am. I’ll go out and talk to people about what’s happening to their families, and when I do that, I’m a mother. I’m a grandmother.
Elizabeth Warren
I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.
Robert MacNeil
HGH testing is happening in Olympics. The science is there. It is a valid test.
Roger Goodell
I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it’s always happening.
Elizabeth Olsen
This notion that manmade climate change is happening is wrong.
Jeff Duncan
As kids do, they’re smart, and even if parents try to keep things away from them, conflict and issues and whatnot, kids pick up on what’s happening.
Anna Gunn
I sometimes work with a communications and media training firm called KNP Communications. It’s nice to bring the research to the practitioners; I learn a lot watching how they put it into practice, and I know they like to be on top of what’s happening on the research front.
Amy Cuddy
Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that’s the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.
Imre Kertesz
I’m one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn’t much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding the Cyclone at Coney Island, which I did when I was eight. When it was all over, I was glad I had done it, but most of the time when it was actually happening, I was just kind of hanging on for dear life.
Fred Melamed
I write about all the horrible things that can happen to kids as a way of keeping those things from happening to mine. Write the books, spit three times over your shoulder and you’re safe.
Jodi Picoult
I’ve loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.
David Lynch
My son died from cancer. My granddaughter died from cancer. I have a lot of reasons to think that reality is not a friendly neighborhood. And the stories that I tell distract me, and if I do the job right, they distract people from things that are happening to them that they wish had never happened.
David Morrell
Well I’m not much of a singer. But it’s been a really nice time to do film, television, theater and have it all happening at once. That wasn’t planned but it just happens.
Peter Krause
New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.
Johnny Carson
I think the American people deserve somebody telling them what is really happening in Washington.
Jack Abramoff
Television viewers, they’ve been around a long time. They’ve been watching this thing now for 50 years. I mean, they know exactly what’s happening when it comes to television programming. You can’t put anything over on them anymore.
Maury Povich
It’s not everybody that can handle firing Denzel Washington or coming to blows and saying, ‘This is what’s happening because I said so.’ Usually, it’s the reverse.
Amanda Warren
The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.
Abel Ferrara
I feel very meditative when I ride. A horse does not know whether my movie is a hit or a flop or what is happening in my relationship.
Randeep Hooda
Since 2001, people have been scared. There’s been some really scary stuff that’s been happening – 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system’s breaking down.
Max Brooks
There is something at work that’s bigger than us. It’s about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don’t worry or agonize about the outcome.
Sherilyn Fenn
A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
Kenneth Tynan
In my campaign I hardly ever talked about what’s happening in Washington D.C. I talked about how we’re going to fix the damn roads, how we clean up drinking water, and ensure people get access to the skills they need to get good paying jobs.
Gretchen Whitmer
From what I hear is happening, young Indian boxers have started to do well on the world stage and started to gain the attention of the general audience.
Evander Holyfield
Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.
Nipsey Hussle
We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn’t have to be white, and the other one doesn’t have to be the ethnic sidekick. We’re way over that. And I think it’s happening in society, too.
Roger Ebert
You know what’s funny? I don’t ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises – I don’t see that happening to me.
Harry Connick, Jr.
That’s what I love about music. It’s immediate. There’s a connection whether you are playing at Hyde Park or Chicago, and it’s been happening since the beginning of time and the troubadours.
Joe Perry
I have many reasons why I think reading is really important. It provided for me a refuge, especially during difficult times. It provided me with the notion that I could find an ending that was different from what was happening to me at the time.
Amy Tan
Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation

Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What’s happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It’s going to make the situation worse.
Vivienne Westwood
Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond – had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level.
Paul Muldoon
I’m not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and I’m still in the thinking stage.
Patsy Cline
Since I work in home solar, I can’t resist focusing on the amazing developments happening here. What many homeowners don’t know is that they can have solar installed on their roofs without owning the panels or paying the high upfront costs.
Lynn Jurich
These things were happening in my life where I was like, ‘Man, I wish my pops was here to see this.’ I never had those thoughts before fame, when my life was just a regular life. I wasn’t saying, ‘I wish my dad could be around and see me working at Applebee’s.’
Kid Cudi
For movies, I usually do an entire book that has all kinds of things about what is happening at the time the movie is going on and try to get into what my character’s going to be like, to try to get some consistency, because they shoot movies out of order.
Loretta Devine
I feel very, very grateful. I’m a lucky guy, you need a lot of luck, and then when the cameras roll, you have to have this group of writers, directors, and actors that just gel, and it seems to literally be happening more and more.
Brad Garrett
Imagine you are walking in China, and all the billboards are in English. And at the restaurants, as the people are talking to you, there are live subtitles. You don’t even realize you are in a computer; it’s just happening.
Rony Abovitz
If you watch old Cars videos, they don’t make any sense. They’re just fun to watch. There doesn’t need to be storyline, and you don’t need to know why anything is happening.
Chad Gilbert
I don’t like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don’t mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I’m open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.
Sophie Okonedo
Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.
Taylor Swift
I’m not really interested in politics, because I think it’s just too removed from my own life. If there’s a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what’s happening.
Zhang Ziyi