If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.

Her smile and voice suggested the kind of excitement that comes when the first words in a long, silent relationship are spoken at last – a subtle excitement secretly incorporating into this one moment everything that has happened until now.

Over time, the ghosts of things that happened start to turn distant; once they’ve cut you a couple of million times, their edges blunt on your scar tissue, they wear thin. The ones that slice like razors forever are the ghosts of things that never got the chance to happen.

When I was in my teenage years, I went to sign up as a cadet entrant to the police force but was at the very last moment rejected, just as I was about to sign my name on the dotted line. I won’t get into why that happened, but it was a moment where it could’ve been predetermined then that I was off to become a policeman.

Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can’t stay down. We can’t allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn’t think we could be that strong.

And then computers got to a point where you could just record directly into them. So when that happened, funny enough, I thought, Right, I’m going to learn how to do this because then I can understand that part

I feel like everything has happened naturally.

How come I end up where I started? How come I end up where I went wrong? You used to be alright What happened?

He couldn’t fake being their kind. The masquerade would fail, and besides, masquerade was foreign to his nature. There was no room in him for sham or artifice. Whatever happened, he must be real. He.

I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I’ve since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.

I like films and I have been watching films from a young age. So, making films happened to be a natural progression

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become

But I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that’s life, isn’t it?

When you stop ruminating about what has already happened, when you stop worrying about what might never happen, then you will be in the present moment

Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.

What happened to the soul that you used to be?

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

It is commonly believed that innovations create changes – but few ever do. Successful innovations exploit changes that have already happened.

Long since, the desert wind wiped away our footprints in the sand. But at every second of my existence, I remember what happened, and you still walk in my dreams and in my reality. Thank you for having crossed my path.

I carry with me many scars, but I also carry with me moments that would not have happened if I had not dared to go beyond my limits.

There is another theory that states: This has already happened.

There is no point in using the word ‘impossible’ to describe something that has clearly happened.

Well, there’s no point in asking me. I can’t remember what happened last night!

It may be history, it may be only a legend, a tradition. It may have happened, it may not have happened: but it could have happened. It may be that the wise and the learned believed it in the old days; it maybe that only the unlearned and the simple loved it and credited it.

When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.

Getting older is the best thing that ever happened to me. I wake up every morning rejoicing that I’m still here with an opportunity to begin again and be better.

The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don’t know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.

In some ways, we are traveling in time now. We just happened to be prisoners of the present in the eternal transition from the past to the future.

Mars once was wet and fertile. It’s now bone dry. Something bad happened on Mars. I want to know what happened on Mars so that we may prevent it from happening here on Earth.

Life doesn’t offer you promises whatsoever so it’s very easy to become, ‘Whatever happened to…?’ It’s great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.