Famous quotes containing the words events occur, events and/or occur:
“Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
“There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“Usually he has no thoughts—but as an exception to this rule sometimes nasty thoughts occur to him.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)