It was fantastic when I came into snooker, when tobacco was throwing lots of money at it, and even when they fell away we thought others would come in because of all the TV exposure. But it didn’t happen. – John Higgins
I happen to agree with many of President Obama’s policies, but in our system, it is often as important how you do something as what you do. – Jonathan Turley
I do have a lot of female friends who are stand-ups and also women who are actresses and also happen to have an act. – Kate Flannery
I never not wanted to be a singer. Since I was 3, I knew this was what I wanted to do. Well, I can’t say I wanted to do it, but I fantasized and thought about it all the time. I never thought it would actually happen. – Lisa Marie Presley
It’s not about doing something that’s as big as ‘Hamilton.’ That may never happen again, and that’s okay. – Leslie Odom, Jr.
Never use dogs to symbolize anything. That is ridiculous. Always ensure that any dogs are just dogs; i.e., characters in the story who happen to be dogs. – Lynn Coady
It will be difficult to let go but it is going to happen sooner rather than later in my case. – Kenny Cunningham
Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn’t happen, but other planets. – Margaret Atwood
I used to have nightmares about the Antichrist – what would happen, where it would come from, and who it would be. – Marilyn Manson
Fame didn’t happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with. – Laura Linney
As much as Parkinson’s is about movement, the end stage is being frozen. So the more I let that happen, the more I’m gonna be stuck within that and unable to reverse it. – Michael J. Fox
‘Warm Bodies’ was a more long-term thing; I had to write the script, who knew if it was every really going to happen, if I’d find the right actors, and so on, so I grabbed ’50/50′ because I just fell in love with it. – Jonathan Levine
I’m impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen. – John Cale
I’ve been in the ‘Idol’ bubble, and now it’s popped, and I don’t know what’s going to happen. – Jessica Sanchez
I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be. – Lucian Freud
What is most amusing and can happen only in India is that the most posh and big households that I’ve seen in Mumbai, the ‘big city’, will have their balconies and windows festooned with rows of baniyans and tauliyas hanging on them. – Kailash Kher
Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment, but it could easily happen that orchestras could slowly atrophy. – Jeffrey Tate
‘1984’ is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names. – Margaret Atwood