Occur

Famous quotes containing the word occur:

    “I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn’t know it existed. It didn’t occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration.”
    —Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)

    “A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.”
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

    “It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that is just as wonderful that he should see with them; and that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)