Quotes About Abrupt

The change in her when it came was sudden.

Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the middle of something, and it doesn't bother to wipe its boots.

All of the sudden

I wish in one sharp, abrupt swell, that I could stay. What a beautiful word that is. Stay with me. Stay home. Stay alive.

Departure should be sudden.

How can something so . . . huge happen so fast?

I was reading stories by Raymond Carver and some of his stuff sort of ended abruptly here and there, where in other short stories that I've read have a bit of an ending, a climax, a twist or something like that.

The comment is abrupt, uncalled for, yet clearly important for him to get across, a way of naming himself, turning out his pockets, the way others let on in a hurry that they know Christ, or where to get cocaine.

I wanted to end it now, like a bad TV show turned off in the middle.

Perhaps the greatest Maya mystery of all is the cause of the civilization's abrupt decline. The last dated stela erected at Tikal was put up in A.D. 869; the last anywhere in the Maya world, in 909.

In whatever kind of a "race" life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

Catherine Anderson

suddenly he lowered his trunk

I don't like when you necessarily know that this is the end of the movie. I like when a movie ends abruptly. You go through this, and some of the scenes are uncomfortable, and some are funny - and then suddenly it's over.

Social media makes it possible to go underneath a story, which sometimes abruptly ends.

This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit.

What the hell are you doing here? A typical Grant Campbell welcome.

Yet it is true that there was an absent mindedness about her which sometimes made her clumsy; she was apt to think of poetry when she should have been thinking of taffeta; her walk was a little too much of a stride for a woman, perhaps, and her gestures, being abrupt, might endanger a cup of tea on occasion.

La definición exacta de "emergencia" implica que es inesperada y, por lo tanto, que no ocurre del modo que uno espera».

A bolt from the blue.

The end will arrive very abruptly. Our experience will not be that of slowly running out of gas Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it will be more like driving off a cliff.

How she felt, now, was just the way she'd felt that day she'd come back to the trailer and found her mother all packed up and gone. No message there but a can of ravioli in a pot on the stove, with the can-opener propped up beside it. She hadn't eaten that ravioli and she hadn't eaten any since and she knew she never would.

the suggestion caught me mid egg rolls

At first I probably seem very abrupt, but I like efficiency. There's work and there's play, and I always think: 'Let's get the work over with so we can thoroughly enjoy the play.