logo

Quotes About Abrupt

We rush through this career and it ends abruptly for the most part.
~ Brad Marchand
I'm short and to the point.
~ Shaquille O'Neal
She was having an outburst with no advance warning.
~ Jonathan Franzen
All farewells should be sudden, when forever.
~ Lord Byron
I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
~ Wendy Cope
I truly don't know why it was ended, though. It was suddenly decided that that would be it. They never said particularly why, because they were cut off in their prime.
~ Derek Jacobi
Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences.
~ George Gaylord Simpson
Yaln?zl?k normal de birdenbire ortaya ç?kmas? öyle i?renç ki.
~ Wilhelm Genazino
When things happen, they tend to happen suddenly.
~ David Archer
It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end.
~ Douglas Adams
I didn't even apply. There was no warning.
~ Max Roach
simply being laconic.
~ Randall Silvis
Moon was from somewhere up east, the kind of place where consonants took on a life of their own. In addition to this, she spoke loudly and abruptly, two things that were considered very rude to southern ears.
~ Karin Slaughter
And I'm also talking about kindness, not just about being nice. You can be gruff or abrupt and still be kind. Kindness has much more to do with what you do than how you do it.
~ Will Schwalbe
Her world must be flat because she disappeared all at once rather than a bit at a time.
~ William H. Gass
It was very fast, that first time. They were on the couch, and then they were off the couch and it was all over. It was like jumping out the window and landing on the street. A quick ride, just like that.
~ David Goodis
At once, good night- Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.
~ William Shakespeare
IT HAPPENED SO QUICKLY, so unexpectedly, that Little Jon's cry was almost instantly cut short as the blackness closed over him.
~ Alexander Key
please?" "Ridiculous," he said curtly
~ Rex Stout
C. P. Snow, who was also present, remembers the performance as "one of the shortest accounts ever made about a major discovery." When tall and birdlike Chadwick finished speaking he looked over the assembly and announced abruptly, "Now I want to be chloroformed and put to bed for a fortnight.
~ Richard Rhodes
all of a sudden
~ Kate DiCamillo
Anyhow, Molly died, in the way that all really good things die, fast and brutal and for no apparent reason.
~ David Wong
The second exploded like a bomb, all by itself.
~ Elizabeth Enright
Change will arrive suddenly for me.
~ Alice Notley