Quotes with sudden

  • The Rio de Contas, a wide, almost delta-like river, was startling, a sudden big sky and a feeling of openness, and very bright. It was noisy with birds. The rain forest houses most of the earth's plant and animal population. I hadn't anticipated it would be so loud.
  • All of a sudden, it became a bit daunting. I'll be out shopping, and all it takes is for one person to recognise me and it can get scary.
  • Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.
  • Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.
  • 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 to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.
  • There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals.
  • To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
  • The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.
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  • Mark Twain Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Andrew Motion Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Max Eastman A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
    Max Eastman
    American writer on literature, philosophy and society (1883 - 1969)
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  • Robert Collier A single idea - the sudden flash of a thought - may be worth a million dollars.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Francis Bacon A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • E. M. Cioran A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Irvin S. Cobb A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across.
    Irvin S. Cobb
    American author, humorist, editor and columnist (1876 - 1944)
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  • Lord George Byron All farewells should be sudden, when forever.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bonnie Wright All of a sudden, it became a bit daunting. I'll be out shopping, and all it takes is for one person to recognise me and it can get scary.
    How Bonnie charmed Harry, Charlotte Methven, Daily Mail, 12th December 2009
    Bonnie Wright
    English actress, model and activist (1991 - )
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  • Bridget Moynahan All of a sudden, you have this newborn you have no training for. It's frightening.
    Bridget Moynahan
    American actress and model (1971 - )
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  • Michel Foucault Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance. It's not a night twinkle with stars, an illuminated sleep, nor a drowsy vigil. It is the very edge of consciousness.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • Edwin H. Land Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
    Edwin H. Land
    American scientist and inventor (0 - 1991)
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  • Tacitus Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Berenice Bejo Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I've had a sudden surge of scripts and interest.
    Berenice Bejo
    French-Argentine actress (1976 - )
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  • Bobby Vinton Everybody goes through a stage where you have it. And, all of a sudden, you don't have it anymore. You get older and the audience gets younger.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Casey Wilson Everything related to 'SNL,' that was very sudden - from the time I found out I was joining the cast to the time I could read on a blog that someone watching the show thinks I'm fat, that was about 30 days. That blog part, that could've moved a little more slowly. But hey - it's all material, right?
    Casey Wilson
    American actress, comedian, and screenwriter (1980 - )
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Henry Fielding Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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