Suddenly Quotes
2531 Suddenly quotes by 1697 unique authors
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I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of…
— Alan Bradley
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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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In the city of flesh I travel without maps, a worried tourist: and Ottilie was a very Venice. I stumbled lost in the blue shade…
— John Banville
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She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting,…
— Ernest Hemingway
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I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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O trees of life, O when are you wintering?We are not unified. We have no instinctslike those of migratory birds. Useless, and late,we force ourselves,…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I had seen how in an instant, those you called friends could suddenly become tormentors, sniffing out a weakness or a difference, turning their own…
— Meera Syal
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One of the hardest parts of practice is the criticism a player takes from his coaches. Some players think a coach has it in for…
— Willie Mays
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I have a shoebox: for ideas, fragments, snatches of conversation I hear. I scrawl it down, throw the scraps in the box. Every time I…
— Shane Black
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The confidence that we Indians are suddenly infused with while doing something wrong is absolutely commendable.
— Kailash Kher
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When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.
— Sally Phillips
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I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they…
— Malcolm Turnbull
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Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your…
— Neil Peart
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The attitude I take is that everyday life is more interesting than forms of celebration, when we become aware of it. That when is when…
— John Cage
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We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man we can never anticipate…
— H.G. Wells
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I waited a long time, an hour or two, to make that picture perfect. But I wasn't totally satisfied. Then, when I'd finished the shoot,…
— Mario Testino
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All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors, first a…
— Jimmy Breslin
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The immensity of the universe didn’t suddenly change, but our ability to see and understand this truth changed dramatically. And with that greater light, mankind…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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That great Kabbilistical association known in Europe under the name of Masonry appeared suddenly in the world when the revolt against the Church had just…
— Eliphas Levi
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Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling…
— Robin Hobb
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I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression,…
— David Thewlis
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Today, people can say anything they want. Suddenly it gets in the rumor mill and then it evolves and then somehow it becomes fact and…
— Tom Cruise
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I shall never forget my first encounter with gorillas. Sound preceded sight. Odor preceded sound in the form of an overwhelming, musky-barnyard, humanlike scent. The…
— Dian Fossey
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You know that feeling you get when your leg falls asleep? Well, I suddenly had that feeling in my spine. Like termites were chewing through…
— Neal Shusterman
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