Response to a student asking if he ever met a conservative who became a liberal. <br class="br"> Goldberg Predicts Collapse of Liberal Media http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/4/11/132345.shtml Newsmax.com. Phil Brennan (April 11, 2003)
“I expect everything I'm in to be massive, but it just doesn't happen that way.”
Jason Biggs (1978) American actor
On success of the show Orange Is the New Black, interviewed in: — December 4, 2014, Jason Biggs: I always win, The Belfast Telegraph, Heat magazine, June 15, 2014 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/jason-biggs-i-always-win-30355396.html,
Hans Christian von Baeyer (1938) American physicist
von Baeyer did not originate the quip about time, which dates back at least as far as the 1929 book "The Man Who Mastered Time" by Ray Cummings, where it appears on p. 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=YdZEAAAAYAAJ&q=%22everything+from+happening+at+once%22#search_anchor. <br class="br">Source: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 14, Noise, Nuisance and necessity, p. 127-128
“That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.”
Tony Blair (1953) former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
[Stryker Mcguire, I Did It My Way, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17202843/site/newsweek/, Newsweek International, 2007-02-26, 2007-02-20]
Interview with Newsweek.
2000s
“Leadership: whatever happens, you're responsible. If it doesn't happen, you're responsible.”
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
Tweet (8 November 2013) https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/398887965302091776 <br class="br">2013
“Something doesn't start
at its usual time.
Something doesn't happen
as it should.”
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer
"Cat in an Empty Apartment"
Poems New and Collected (1998), The End and the Beginning (1993)
Context: Something doesn't start
at its usual time.
Something doesn't happen
as it should.
Someone was always, always here,
then suddenly disappeared
and stubbornly stays disappeared.
“It doesn't matter how anything happens.”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
Variant: It doesn't matter what you do because it's going to happen anyway.
Source: The Favorite Game
“Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.”
Sue Grafton (1940–2017) American writer
Source: C is for Corpse
“Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.”
Malcolm Gladwell book Blink
Source: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
“Life doesn't happen in chapters — at least, not regular ones.”
Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
On the lack of chapters in Discworld books, in an interview by Gavin J. Grant at Booksource.com (2008) http://www.booksense.com/people/archive/pratchettterry.jsp <br class="br">General sources <br class="br">Context: Life doesn't happen in chapters — at least, not regular ones. Nor do movies. Homer didn't write in chapters. I can see what their purpose is in children's books ("I'll read to the end of the chapter, and then you must go to sleep") but I'm blessed if I know what function they serve in books for adults.
