Sudden Quotes
1085 Sudden quotes by 866 unique authors
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A sudden cloud formation of birds was swallowed up by the moon, and he was just as suddenly penned in by four walls-the demons' pen.
— Mo Yan
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The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.
— Sun Tzu
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He found that he had this sudden desperate longing for the fuming, smoky streets of Ankh-Morpork, which was always at its best in the spring,…
— Terry Pratchett
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My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was eerily calm, as if in…
— Kate Christensen
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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
— Anthony Calvillo
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I have often noticed how primate groups in their entirety enter a similar mood. All of a sudden, all of them are playful, hopping around.…
— Frans de Waal
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When you're a teenager, a year can be crippling to maneuver through. Some things happen when you're like 13. All of a sudden you go…
— Kristen Stewart
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I've always said "Writer's Block" is a myth. There is no such thing as writer's block, only writers trying to force something that isn't ready…
— Julie Ann Dawson
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Before music videos first came out, you’d listen to a song with headphones on, sitting in a beanbag chair with your eyes closed, and you’d…
— Eddie Vedder
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Nuclear weapons are so destructive and ballistic missiles are so swift, that any substantially increased possibility of their use or any sudden change in their…
— John F. Kennedy
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And then writing, it was like I just found it, you know? Like you just found your favorite flavor of ice cream, all of a…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Enough. Sudden enough. Sudden all far. No move and sudden all far. All least. Three pins. One pinhole. In dimmost dim. Vasts apart. At bounds…
— Samuel Beckett
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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts…
— Willem de Kooning
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Four months is a lot of living with that little life in you-thinking about it, eating right for it, nurturing it and all of a…
— Christie Brinkley
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I honestly don't like Photoshop. I think when people Photoshop things, all of a sudden you're like, 'That's not even me anymore.' It takes away…
— Lily Aldridge
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I knew all this Beatles music. I knew the songs phonetically. It was like my whole experience of that music was out of focus, and…
— Regina Spektor
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Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.
— Peter Zumthor
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Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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It's tough for parents to talk to children about heavy-weight topics such as peer pressure, drugs and morality if they don't already have a closeness.…
— David A. Bednar
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And since the possession of qualities presupposes that one takes a certain pleasure in their reality, all this gives us a glimpse of how it…
— Robert Musil
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Creativity permeates the cosmos. It is the driving force that sustains the particles, the stars and galaxiesit surges through the body with each beat of…
— F. David Peat
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
— Carson McCullers
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If it had been a heart attack, the newspapermight have used the word massive,as if a mountain range had openedinside her, but insteadit used the…
— Nick Flynn
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We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show.
— Davy Jones
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We’ve got to get past this idea that God is most glorified when we’re rich, healthy and wealthy and we go, “Isn’t God grand? Look…
— Matt Chandler
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