Events quotes

“There's a design at work in all art... events must play themselves out to an aesthetic, moral and logical conclusion. We aim at the point where everyone who is marked for death... dies.”
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - The Player

“This is a sign, like the burning bush, except this a carburetor and I'm not Moses.”

Nathan Lane - Snowbell

“People connected only by the slightest of events. Like whispers in the night, in that place that never forgets, even when those people do.”
Bruce Willis - Mr. Goodkat

“Gosh, I didn't realize it was going to be this formal. If I had known it was going to be this kind of party I would have worn underwear.”
Judy Landers - Noreen

“- Abe: Only creeps and crazy people go out on New Year's Eve.
- Ceil: Then you should definitely go out, Abe.”
Josh Mostel - Abe
Renée Lippin - Ceil

“For everything; there is a first time.”
Leonard Nimoy - Spock

“Today is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap.”

Jim Carrey - Joel Barish

“God didn't kill that little girl. Fate didn't butcher her and destiny didn't feed her to those dogs. If God saw what any of us did that night he didn't seem to mind. From then on, I knew God doesn't make the world this way. We do.”
Jackie Earle Haley - Rorschach

“- Professor Minerva McGonagall: Why is it, when something happens, it is always you three?
- Ron Weasley: Believe me, I've been asking myself the same question for six years.”

Maggie Smith - Professor Minerva McGonagall
Rupert Grint - Ron Weasley

“- Willy Beachum: Did Mr. Crawford seem confused, intoxicated, or impaired in any way?
- Lt. Robert Nunally: No, not at all. He knew exactly what was going on.”
Ryan Gosling - Willy Beachum
Billy Burke - Lt. Robert Nunally

“Something is always happening, but when it happens, people don't always see it, or understand it... or accept it.”
Denzel Washington - John Hobbes

“- Shanti: The traditional view of time is linear, like a river, flowing from the past towards the future.
- Doug Carlin: But you can change the course of a river, right?
- Shanti: Exactly. Introduce a significant enough event at any point in this river and you create a new branch, still flowing toward the future, but along a different route....” (continue)(continue reading)
Erika Alexander - Shanti
Denzel Washington - Doug Carlin

“- Mrs. Gloria Teasdale: The eyes of the world are upon you. Notables from every country are gathered here in your honor. This is a gala day for you.
- Rufus T. Firefly: A gal a day is enough for me.”
Margaret Dumont - Mrs. Gloria Teasdale
Groucho Marx - Rufus T. Firefly

“I was in Boston, I just ended up there. Seemed far enough away. They came to me then, it just happened, you know how that is, things happen and other things happen and it's your life.”
Sean Penn - Terry Noonan

“- Kate Beringer: Now I have another reason to hate Christmas.
- Billy Peltzer: What are you talking about?
- Kate Beringer: The worst thing that ever happened to me was on Christmas. Oh, God. It was so horrible. It was Christmas Eve. I was 9 years old. Me and Mom were decorating the tree, waiting for Dad to come home from work. A couple hours...” (continue)(continue reading)
Phoebe Cates - Kate Beringer
Zach Galligan - Billy Peltzer

“- John Connor: We stopped Judgment Day.
- Terminator: You only postponed it. Judgment Day is inevitable.”
Nick Stahl - John Connor
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Terminator

“Some plots are moved forward by external events and crises. Others are moved forward by the characters themselves. If I go through that door, the plot continues. The story of me through the door. If I stay here the plot can't move forward, the story ends.”
Dustin Hoffman - Professor Jules Hilbert

“Little did he know that this simple, seemingly innocuous act would result in his imminent death.”
Emma Thompson - Karen Eiffel

“- Cecilia Tallis: My brother and I found the two of them down by the lake.
- Police Inspector: You didn't see anyone else?
- Cecilia Tallis: I wouldn't necessarily believe everything Briony tells you. She's rather fanciful.”
Keira Knightley - Cecilia Tallis
Peter Wight - Police Inspector

“Every event is inevitable - if it wasn't, it wouldn't happen.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - O.W. Grant

“Change doesn't happen the way you say it's gonna happen, without dramatic events that accelerate thinking.”
M. Night Shyamalan - Vick Ran

“Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go, when things have gotten about as bad as they can reasonably get.”
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - The Player

“- Thomas Fowler: I have never thought of myself as a correspondent, just a reporter. I offer no point of view, I take no action, I don't get involved. I just report what I see.
- Alden Pyle: But you must have an opinion.
- Thomas Fowler: Even an opinion is a form of action.”
Sir Michael Caine - Thomas Fowler
Brendan Fraser - Alden Pyle

“- Foreman Marv Loach: United States Government? That must mean something big is happening here.
- Kent Mansley: No, Marv. Big things happen in big places, and the sooner I file my report, the sooner I can get back to them.”
James Gammon - Foreman Marv Loach
Christopher McDonald - Kent Mansley

“Sometimes things happen for a reason. Something bad to force something good.”

Kevin Kline - George Monroe