Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.

If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.

You happened to me. You were as deep down as I’ve ever been. You were inside me like my pulse.

Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end.

I like fictional stories - like, things that never happened but the seed of it starts as real.

It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened.

It's always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!

No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.

I have no regrets about being 'Doctor Who'. It was the greatest thing that ever happened to me.

She shrieked. "Nora! What happened to the banister!" Good thing she hadn't seen her bedroom yet.

If I can write everything out plainly, perhaps I will myself understand better what has happened.

Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.

I didn't join a band. I didn't start a band. I got asked to do it. It kinda happened by accident.

Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.

It finally happened - a lawsuit for wrongful doing unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

The future doesn't exist. It hasn't happened yet. The past doesn't exist. It has already happened.

Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before.

I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.

I don't know what should have happened in my life, but I do know that I'm dancing as fast as I can.

Nothing has happened to me out of the closet that was anywhere near as dangerous as being closeted.

Whether it happened so or not I do not know; but if you think about it you can see that it is true.

The worst thing that's ever happened to you is not the worst thing that's ever happened to anybody.

…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.

A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.

History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened.

What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

... the things that happened in your body were never as bad as the things that happened in your mind.

Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.

Though I was careful never to mention it, I began to see a new dimension in everything that happened.

What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other

It has all happened so quickly, but it's exciting, I just wanna get back to playing football you know.

Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.

It is always the teacher who must learn the most... or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.

If you want it to happen, you must make it happen. If you let it happen, you won't like what happened.

Probably the best thing that happened to me was going nuts. Nobody knew who I was until that happened.

It all happened so fast. Someone slammed the brakes and there was no way to go, just straight into it.

Last year nothing happened The year before nothing happened And the year before that nothing happened.

It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried

You can’t undo something that’s happened; you can’t take back a word that’s already been said out loud.

I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.

Funniest thing happened though, you wouldn't believe it, ha, the mannequins came to life. I went insane.

It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t.

I've been thinking a lot about folks denying what has happened in history, or just not acknowledging it.

It is good to say it aloud: 'Nothing has happened.' Once again: 'Nothing has happened.' Does that help?"

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