#suddenly

Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#doubles #get #improve #played #player

Other times, you're doing some piece of work and suddenly you get feedback that tells you that you have touched something that is very alive in the cosmos. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#cosmos #doing #feedback #get #other

I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational. ↗

— Larry Niven

#good #got #i #millions #never

Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK. ↗

— Barack Obama

#barack #because #cannot #elected #everything

It's interesting to feel the pressure of having to be outgoing, because I think in general, as a human being, I'm pessimistic and introverted. But, it's cool, because it's a whole different side of me, and I impress myself. Even at times when I think that there's no possible way that I can be engaging, I'll suddenly pull it out and impress myself. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#being #cool #different #engaging #even

About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just couldn't find anything good. My wife noticed I was having trouble reading menus. I bought some cheap reading glasses in a drug store. I got home and suddenly all these books that weren't good were good. ↗

— Richard Russo

#ago #anything #books #bought #cheap

It was the height of the Depression, and suddenly I am earning pots of money. ↗

— Ann Rutherford

#depression #earning #height #i #i am

Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down. ↗

— Ayrton Senna

#back #different #down #i #immediate

After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied. ↗

— Ernest Shackleton

#after #appetites #envied #fit #found

Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks. ↗

— Gary Sinise

#career #demand #great #hits #sometimes