Sudden Quotes - page 21

The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area. (Sylvia Earle)
I'll bet if I compare notes with Junie Allyson and Debbie Reynolds and anyone else who's had more than one marriage, the fact is that you fall in love and it's so wonderful to think about something other than yourself and whether the script's right for you and who's going to be your leading man, that you don't really ask yourself questions about the fellow. He's just wonderful looking and he dances well and you have a wonderful time and it's fun to go out, and all of a sudden you're in a lifelong marriage. View quote
Esther Williams
It was my sophomore year at Yale, going through the food line for dinner, and I wanted a chicken breast, but the way they put it on my plate – all of a sudden it reminded me of my mom's dog – and at that moment I was instantly on the outside of the food chain. I just couldn't be a part of it. It was very personal to me in an instant, all because of a big breast of chicken that was oddly plated and slightly pink and I couldn't do it. At first all I could think to eat was peanut butter and bread, so I put on a bunch of weight, but over the years it's gotten a lot easier because people are much hipper to the fact that a plant based lifestyle is healthier for us. So it's gotten so easy and so delicious to be vegan. View quote
Bellamy Young
It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of it, it's almost like you have to remember how to act again! View quote
A. J. Cook
It's a relief to hear the rain. It's the sound of billions of drops, all equal, all equally committed to falling, like a sudden outbreak of democracy. Water, when it hits the ground, instantly becomes a puddle or rivulet or flood. View quote
Alice Oswald
All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices. View quote
Aaron Levie
I guess if you're a normal person and all of a sudden you're getting $10 million a year, it can go to your head. View quote
Andrew Bogut
In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family - my brother at 30, my daughter at 5. View quote
Ann Hood
I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real. View quote
Austin Peck
All of a sudden I'm in the major leagues and we're traveling from town to town. I see the other players dressing different every day. I've got only one suit and I keep wearing it over and over. I'm really embarrassed. View quote
Al Kaline
I like the sudden shock of non-sequitur color. Color, in fact, is my weakness. (Babe Paley)
I was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned ten or so. Puberty hit like a hurricane and brought a new set of rules. All of a sudden it was my fault I was chubby. View quote
Beth Ditto
I sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn't until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patrick O'Brian's 'Master and Commander' novels, that I had the sudden epiphany that I had to go sail on a square-rig ship. View quote
Billy Campbell
'10' was amazing! I had no career before '10' and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business. View quote
Bo Derek
You hear all the time about European players playing the game. These players that come over at 17, 18 and 19, they just don't all of a sudden become skilled. From the time they were little fellas, they learned the fundamentals of the game. Let them create. View quote
Bobby Orr
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. View quote
Bobby Vinton
Nobody could understand why a guy would love his guitar, then all of a sudden turn around and try to destroy it. Jimi was just different. View quote
Bobby Womack
When you've done something for more than a third of your life, your whole adult life, and then all of a sudden you're going to have to switch off and say, 'No more,' you want to grasp as much of it and enjoy the last few years of it as much as you can. Because you can't get those years back. View quote
Brian O'Driscoll
I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs. View quote
Barry Mann
Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I've had a sudden surge of scripts and interest. View quote
Berenice Bejo
The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived. (Bernard DeVoto)
I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors. View quote
Charles Kimbrough
I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money. View quote
Callie Khouri
Often I think changes within my work have been seen as sudden changes or sharp changes, but for me they're not that sudden. They have been there in the studio, but not so much in public. View quote
Chris Ofili
I was just going at this career - boom, boom, boom! Then all of a sudden, at 38, Oh, my God - I forgot to get married! View quote
Connie Chung