Famous quotes containing the word event:
“Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that childs world and thus a world event.”
—Gaston Bachelard (18841962)
“When we awoke, we found a heavy dew on our blankets. I lay awake very early, and listened to the clear, shrill ah, te te, te te, te of the white-throated sparrow, repeated at short intervals, without the least variation, for half an hour, as if it could not enough express its happiness. Whether my companions heard it or not, I know not, but it was a kind of matins to me, and the event of the forenoon.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“An event is not over until everyone is tired of talking about it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
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