Sudden Quotes

1085 Sudden quotes by 866 unique authors

When you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don't have any more luck. — Pat Riley
It's like The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, about the discovery of penicillin. Out of these strange accidents come huge discoveries. A certain purple bleeds… — Carly Simon
The Elf and the Dormouse UNDER a toadstool crept a wee Elf, Out of the rain to shelter himself. Under the toadstool, sound asleep, Sat… — Oliver Herford
Therefore, if you are attacked, retaliate instantly. Be sudden. Be quick. Speed is your salvation. — Jeff Cooper
It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world! — Mark Rydell
If you say you're fat, all of a sudden people like you — Valerie Bertinelli
The sudden and abrupt removal of my all-consuming goal ... well, it was like I was a donut, and somebody had sucked all the jelly… — Brandon Sanderson
I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential. — Oliver Sacks
I think the main reason a lot of child stars don't make it is that it's hard to see someone as cute and then all… — Christina Ricci
Smaug certainly looked asleep, almost dead and dark, with scarcely a snore more than a whiff of unseen steam, when Bilbo peeped once more from… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Mystery is what happens to us when we allow life to evolve rather than having to make it happen all the time. It is the… — Joan D. Chittister
Here life goes on, even and monotonous on the surface, full of lightning, of summits and of despair, in its depths. We have now arrived… — May Sarton
It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron… — Henry Ward Beecher
Such is the nature of an expatriate life. Stripped of romance, perhaps that's what being an expat is all about: a sense of not wholly… — Sarah Turnbull
Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. When someone intrudes into the poet's life (and any sudden personal contact, whether in the bed or in the… — Jack Spicer
In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in… — Jack Nance
Nobody could understand why a guy would love his guitar, then all of a sudden turn around and try to destroy it. Jimi was just… — Bobby Womack
Comics were going down for the second time and here, all of a sudden, came this thing and for the next fifteen years, romance comics… — Gil Kane
Yes I marked the spot in the garage..when I was back at the house on December 22. They had asked me with all of the… — John Wayne Gacy
Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow. — John Keats
Well, it was kind of accidental that Jim started playing with us, although it wasn't sudden... we hadn't really looked around to think who could… — Kim Gordon
Because its hard to realize now that that was the end of the great depression, you know. All of a sudden all of this is… — Robert McCloskey
The dream of a writer is to be surprised by his characters. All of a sudden, they are living their own lives; they are not… — Jean-Claude Carriere
[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a… — Max Nordau

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