Sudden Quotes

1085 Sudden quotes by 866 unique authors

Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go; At noon our sudden summer burns, Ere sunset all is snow. — James Russell Lowell
Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires… — William Shakespeare
Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints at its savage ancestry. Animals… — Eric Hoffer
I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me. — Pablo Picasso
Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting… — Edwin Arnold
When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart.… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious. — Fernando Pessoa
We have all probably noted those sudden moments of quiet - those strange and almost miraculous moments in the life of a big city when… — Dorothy Day
A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment - and the… — Walter Pater
The creditors are proving impossible to deal with and short of a sudden appearance on the scene of wealthy art patrons, we are going to… — Claude Monet
Courses that you've had success on, all of a sudden your game turns around because you feel comfortable on your tee shots, you feel comfortable… — Tiger Woods
It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even… — Willem de Kooning
Martial music has sudden and strongly marked transitions from one note to another which that style of music requires; while in that which is intended… — Joshua Reynolds
YOU find some one parade all of a sudden some -ism- as new and revolutionary socialism, for example. — Sathya Sai Baba
Hush! With sudden gush As from a fountain sings in yonder bush The Hermit Thrush. — John B. Tabb
A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,-- Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on… — John Harington
When I had spent a few days without thinking, without doing anything, I would feel a sudden urge to paint. Then I would set up… — Maurice de Vlaminck
Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public… — William Davenant
Until House came along I don't think the English made very good dance records, you know, there were very few really good English Rap records,… — Fatboy Slim
It's like being a newborn, this sudden sensory overload of noise, color, smells and gravity after months of quietly floating, encased in relative calm and… — Chris Hadfield
a self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable. — Philip Seymour Hoffman
I mean, Jane Wyman did a lot of silly parts for years and then all of a sudden went serious and was tremendous. — Cleo Moore
Do not be afraid that too much labour over the composition is going to kill the spontaneity. Those who absorb and digest their experiences are,… — John F. Carlson
I see something - some conjunction of forms - which dominates all others. There is a sudden recognition that in what I have been looking… — Graham Sutherland
I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good to be holding… — Napoleon Bonaparte

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