Tim Brooke-Taylor: "The Times: Nothing Happened Yesterday

We've always grew up to hear the stories of the Nakba, we've never imagined that we would grow up to live it. It happened in 1948 because it wasn't televised, the world didn't know what's going on in Palestine. But now it's quite disgraceful that it's televised carnage and the world is literally watching.

Last year nothing happened / The year before nothing happened / And the year before that nothing happened.

What happened to you, man? Did you get a head transplant?

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

Something traumatic happened to me when I was younger. I was with this old black woman, and she was very wise, very Alice Walker, The Color Purple...she looked at me and she says, "Baby...you know I used to be able to fly but I can't fly no more, baby. But baby, you...? You too fat to fly.

Show me what happened to my country after separating from Pakistan. This is the Parliament building that many people say Pakistan did nothing to us, this (Parliament building) is theirs.

Yes, the past happened. But it's over, isn't it?

[She] gave us an explanation what happened when you gave in to vacillation — you become its victim. If you have to become a victim, at least do so after conquering your own hesitation

What happened to you, man? Did you get a head transplant?

Well, I'm not crazy about the part where I start screaming at the mechanic. That never happened.

Something Happened by Joseph Heller

I actually have an ear infection, which is pretty grim. I've never had an ear infection before," she said. "It is the most painful thing that has ever, ever happened to me in my life — it was worse than childbirth.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

We live in a society where there is no law in making money in the promulgation of ignorance or, in some cases, stupidity. There are a lot of things you can say never happened. You can go as relatively quasi-harmless as saying no one went to the moon. But you also can say that the Holocaust never happened.