#suddenly

Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#against #became #black #broken #came

When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#burst #came #flower #france #government

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#always #aware #composer #conscious #his

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#diminish #ease #fool #i #i can

That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#any #getting #getting older #models #more

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. ↗

— A. C. Benson

#background #becomes #clear #itself #making

When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#better #close #discover #each #eager

I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#away #before #believed #berlin #berlin wall

My version of "Georgia" became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching. ↗

— Ray Charles

#big #big thing #declaring #georgia #here

I think it helps a lot when they tell people that Teri Hatcher likes you. If you're Teri Hatcher's boyfriend, suddenly you're hunky I guess. I've spent 40 years being average and now I'm Teri hatcher's boyfriend and here we are. I've been really fortunate. ↗

— James Denton

#been #being #boyfriend #fortunate #guess