Sudden Quotes

1085 Sudden quotes by 866 unique authors

I wander though China. Without ever having boarded a plane. My travels take place here in the Tokoyo subways, in the backseat of a taxi...… — Haruki Murakami
The sudden hand of Death close up mine eye! — William Shakespeare
Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock… — Mark Twain
I've been through hell. It's hard to think you have this life, and then all of a sudden - was it a lie? You're struggling… — Elin Nordegren
It was like a death in the family: You go through the mourning stage, then the rebellion, and then all of a sudden you have… — Jessica Simpson
You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you… — Randy Bachman
The launch of Nautilus, the world's first atomic submarine marked a transition in naval warfare-a transition as sudden as that associated with the Monitor. — Waldemar Kaempffert
Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work. — Henri Poincare
I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience. — Robin Williams
Victory in combat is like sex with a prostitute. For a moment you forget everything in the sudden physical rush, but then you have to… — Karl Marlantes
What the Londoner sees in his mind’s eye is that cluster of towers and pinnacles seen from Pentonville Hill and outlined against a foggy sunset,… — John Betjeman
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. — Marilyn Ferguson
Curiosity’s primal. Our senses scan our surroundings, alerting us most urgently about sudden change. Useful, that. Change can mean opportunity. It can mean danger. Finding… — Julie Czerneda
Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I've had a sudden surge of scripts and interest — Berenice Bejo
After becoming established as a surfboard manufacturer and surf film producer whose films were shown on TV, all of a sudden all the teachers and… — Greg Noll
As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it… — Anne Carson
A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding you will awaken… — Huangbo Xiyun
The loss of one's dignified bearing is often sudden. — Jerry Van Amerongen
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals... — Ben Stein
That’s the thing about change. It can be gradual. Slow and almost unnoticeable. Or it can be sudden, and you don’t even know how you… — Penelope Douglas
The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes, or… — Arthur Koestler
Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement. — Charles Darwin
I thought I had too much money to be happy and normal. Thousand of pounds is just too much for a working person to handle… — Peter Green
I was minding my own business, really, and then all of a sudden, Hollywood approached me. — Kelly Brook
Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden outburst. — Sylvia Porter

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