Sequential Events Quotes

Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

The Purpose of Time is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once

If I didn't do 'Batman,' 'Birdman' wouldn't have happened.

In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another.

Traditional fiction has a little bit of spatial exploration but is basically a question of time - the question is, what happens next?

The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.

Political history is not a sequence of incoherent and haphazard events but a chain of causes and effects.

If I'd never have picked up the first person, I'd never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta.

The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.

Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

Things always happen in series.

I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence.

I didn't play basketball because I'd learned how to ice skate.

The process of writing is like creating a game of dominoes: The first domino creates the second incident, and so forth until the end.

I think it's the sentence-to-sentence pleasures, the little surprises of a surprising style of an acute style, and also the way things happen one after the other, that makes a book interesting to read page to page

There is a sequence of events in our lives and so there's a temporal aspect to our experience that brings by itself, sense into the story. In other words, you were not walking before you were born and you were not doing X and Y before you did something else first. So there's a sequencing of events that imposes a certain structure to the story.

After was better. Before was only there so After could happen.

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.