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"Laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." »Thomas Hobbes
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"Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity." »Edwin H. Land
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"It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end." »Douglas Adams
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"If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself." »H. L. Mencken
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"That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along." »Madeleine L'Engle
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"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run." »Mark Twain
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"In weightlifting, I don't think sudden, uncontrolled urination should automatically disqualify you." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Where desire writhed there stands a stone; the change was sudden and complete." »Maggie Roche
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"Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses." »Robert Burton
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open." »Sir Francis Bacon
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"sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count." »Neil Simon
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"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." »Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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"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
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." »James Madison
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"The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." »Winston Churchill
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"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
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"I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always." »Katherine Anne Porter
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"The safest road to hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight." »Fritjof Capra, physicist
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"During these periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight." »Fritjof Capra
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"A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts as the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of the reason of which we so much boast." »Albert Cooper
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"The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth." »Dorothy Sayers
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"The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes." »Thomas Hardy
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"There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals...." »Ben Stein
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"Wit and wisdom differ. Wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is in bringing about ends." »John Selden
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"The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten." »Jules Feiffer
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"Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job." »Sir Winston Churchill, Radio speech, 1941
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"Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job." »Winston Churchill
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"In the life of every man there are sudden transitions of feeling, which seem almost miraculous. At once, as if some magician had touched the heavens and the earth, the dark clouds melt into the air, the wind falls, and serenity succeeds the storm. The causes which produce these changes may have been long at work within us, but the changes themselves are instantaneous, and apparently without sufficient cause." »Longfellow
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"You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind--not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement--but you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time." »William E. Holler
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