Famous quotes containing the word occur:
“I am a colored woman or a Negro woman. Either one is OK. People dislike those words now. Today these use this term African American. It wouldnt occur to me to use that. I prefer to think of myself as an American, thats all!”
—Annie Elizabeth Delany (b. 1891)
“Some departure from the norm
Will occur as time grows more open about it.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Usually he has no thoughtsbut as an exception to this rule sometimes nasty thoughts occur to him.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)