Sudden Quotes

1085 Sudden quotes by 866 unique authors

Nothing in life is more exciting and rewarding than the sudden flash of insight that leaves you a changed person . — Arthur Gordon Webster
The effect of the great and sudden change of altitude made itself felt at once; when I wanted to turn round in my bag, I… — Roald Amundsen
Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great black forests of… — Joaquin Miller
I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited after forty years.… — Karen Thompson Walker
I felt so free for a week. But then, all of a sudden, within days I went from 'Yay, I'm independent' to 'Holy f**k, I'm… — David
New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move. — David Letterman
I liked the taste of beer, its live, white lather, its brass-bright depths, the sudden world through the wet-brown walls of the glass, the tilted… — Dylan Thomas
I ne'er was struck before that hour with love so sudden and so sweet. Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower and stole my… — John Clare
There is no natural phenomenon that is comparable with the sudden and apparently accidentally timed development of science, except perhaps the condensation of a super-saturated… — Eugene Wigner
I played a lot of serious parts in a lot of TV movies and early miniseries but what happens is that you get sort of… — Barry Bostwick
Sometimes, at a certain point, the painting seems to have painted itself without my help - what I have called the 'eureka' moment when a… — Joseph Plaskett
It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea… — Francis Crick
I think there's going to be a very sudden shift in people's perception of the International Space Station, because suddenly it's going to look much,… — Marc Garneau
Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so. — Gene Robinson
Aside from certain rare cancers, it is not possible to detect any sudden changes in the death rates for any of the major cancers that… — John Cairns
Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a fancied… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment. — Marcus Aurelius
One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know what hope is,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman passes the bounds… — William Hazlitt
In cities men cannot be prevented from concerting together, and from awakening a mutual excitement which prompts sudden and passionate resolutions. Cities may be looked… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I used to put that I studied with Stella Adler on my resume. I never met Stella Adler. But if you told a casting director… — Billy Bob Thornton
I ran my first race the end of March, 1976. And less than four months later I was Olympic champion. But I had the background.… — Edwin Moses
I've grown up playing pop music for the experimental crowd and I always feel like I'm pushing something weird on people. I had this underdog… — Girl Talk
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree. — Sigmund Freud

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