But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it’s just something that happened, you know.

This is what happened to me when I received the governorship. The corrupt previous governor didn’t do the handover. We received the Miranda governorship completely dismantled.

‘1984’ is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.

When I am preparing my ‘lookalike’ photographs, I think about the character of the real people, because, if the photographs are going to be plausible, you have to convince the viewer that they could have...

My accident happened in what should have been one of the safest places to be: in a police station, at the hands of trained police officers. So more guns are not the answer.

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

You know, many people have called me, friends from the nationalist camp, revisionists and so on, from around the world, have called me over the years – and now again because of what happened –...

Being married is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Sometimes an opponent stops breathing, and you realise something drastic has happened and they are trying not to let on. Or they go quiet, or they get fidgety. After a while you pick these things...

If something happened where I couldn’t write music anymore, it would kill me. It’s not just a job. It’s not just a hobby. It’s why I get up in the morning.

Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened.

I would like to know that when I read the paper in the morning, it’s telling me something that actually happened, and I think the vast majority of journalists want the same thing.

I can’t change what’s happened to me in my life, or make what’s not occurred take place. But I can’t say I like it, or accept it, or believe it’s for the best. I don’t...

One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.

I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally.

The scandal happened and I made the best of it. I kind of feel like in the end it was a blessing.

The first thing I went out for was ‘The Sopranos’ and I got it, so that’s how it happened. I hate to say it like that because I wait for calls now.

It just kind of happened spontaneously. If I had to do it over again, I might not have done it but you know!

My whole life has been decided by fate. I’ve never planned anything that’s happened to me.

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

Thank you… fat dude with giant headphones on the subway, for looking like what would’ve happened if Jabba the Hutt mated with Princess Leia.

I think ‘Dilbert’ will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. ‘Dilbert’ is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it...

You can only judge anything that happened in the times, in the times that that happened.

I don’t think there’s such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

I am always anxious to know what has happened while I’ve been asleep.

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn’t have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That’s the tragedy of this.

I think things happened the way they did for a reason.

I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.

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

If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it’s always white men who do that, and you don’t have the voices that are really interesting to me, of the...

It’s always good to take something that’s happened in your life and make something of it comedically.

I was for sure not prepared for fame when it happened.

If it is warming, it’s because it’s happened before, cyclitic, it will happen again, regardless of what you and I do.

It would be the first time in the history of mankind that a pandemic has been stamped out before it happened.