#sudden

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go. ↗

— Max Eastman

#go #goal #him #joke #just

The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#course #ended #finished #having #just

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. ↗

— Matt Groening

#elf #gun #jig #little #love

Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#came #carter #crisis #did #down

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#entirely #fulfillment #hope #leaves #never

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather. ↗

— David Hare

#else #indicate #like #little #mercury

Having a child changes everything. All of a sudden you have so much to lose, so much to live for. ↗

— Mariska Hargitay

#child #everything #having #live #lose

Being on a comedy tour is like traveling with family, everyone is all having a great time... then all of a sudden it turns sour. One thing gets said out of turn, and everyone is on everyone's last nerve. After an hour of silence, we all start laughing about it. ↗

— Steve Harvey

#after #being #comedy #everyone #family

You know, when companies who have made a commitment and have legacy costs and all of a sudden want to walk away from that commitment and lay it on the federal government, that's a problem. It's a fiscal problem for us. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#commitment #companies #costs #federal #federal government

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family. ↗

— Keith Henson

#death #family #friends #friends and family #intense