Sudden Quotes
1085 Sudden quotes by 866 unique authors
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You can no more keep a martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there. The proper union of gin and vermouth is…
— Bernard DeVoto
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There was a man that hated his footprints and his shadow, so one day he thought that if he ran fast enough, his footprints and…
— Benjamin Hoff
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The sudden hunch, the creative leap of mind that "sees" in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way, is something quite…
— Martin Gardner
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Natural capitalism is not about making sudden changes, uprooting institutions, or fomenting upheaval for a new social order. Natural capitalism is about making small, critical…
— Paul Hawken
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Lucky accidents seldom happen to writers who don't work. You will find that you may rewrite and rewrite a poem and it never seems quite…
— Richard Hugo
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She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of…
— Jane Austen
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Overnight success just doesn't happen. You've got to put your time in ... you're up and down, all of a sudden, it just clicks. And…
— Anthony Calvillo
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Yes, the more successful you are—or the stronger, the more opinionated—the less you will be generally liked. All of a sudden people will think you’re…
— Jessica Valenti
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All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch, the lost children,…
— Elizabeth McCracken
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I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of…
— Alan Bradley
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My dog, Ginger, is jumpy-like me-sensitive to sound and sudden movement. She wasn't that way at first, but not long after we got her, my…
— Mira Bartok
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A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature, which…
— Tim Cahill
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Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
— Johan Huizinga
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Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.
— Wayne Newton
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You know, when companies who have made a commitment and have legacy costs and all of a sudden want to walk away from that commitment…
— Dennis Hastert
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The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.
— Shana Alexander
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All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert…
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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She's been through growing up without a mother & makes my heart all of a sudden.
— Unknown Author
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It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.
— Neil Young
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To early man, trees were objects of awe and wonder. The mystery of their growth, the movement of their leaves and branches, the way they…
— Ruskin Bond
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In weightlifting, I don't think sudden, uncontrolled urination should automatically disqualify you.
— Jack Handey
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I think a good product would be "Baby Duck Hat". It's a fake baby duck, which you strap on top of your head. Then you…
— Jack Handey
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Was there any form of filth or crime without at least one Jew involved in it? If you cut into such a sore, you find,…
— Adolf Hitler
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For me, this nomination was as if all of a sudden the crucifix began to wear a yellow star.
— Unknown Author
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It having been a very cold night last night I had got some cold, and so in pain by wind, and a sure precursor of…
— Samuel Pepys
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