Key Event Quotes

I learnt to read when I was five, and I think that is the most important thing that happened to me.

Birth may be a matter of a moment, but it is a unique one.

The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.

How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.

The essence of a religion can be discovered by asking its adherents one question: 'What, to your mind, was the seminal moment in the history of the world?'

The ideal 'New Yorker' profile is a person, an interesting person, at a critical point in his life.

Ask any successful person to look back over the events of his or her life, and chances are there'll be a turning point of one kind or another. It doesn't matter if that success has come on a ball field or in a boardroom, in a research laboratory or on a campaign trail - it can usually be traced to some pivotal moment.

One of the biggest things that happened for me was YouTube.

Moments. All gathering towards this one.

Usually, one day in a century rises above the others as an accepted turning point or historic milestone. It becomes the climactic day, or 'the day,' of that century.

To me, 'Warrior' was a real turning point - probably one of the greatest experiences I've ever had as an actor on set.