Famous quotes containing the words sudden and/or unexpected:
“A sudden blow; the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl,”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“True variety is in that plenitude of real and unexpected elements, in the branch charged with blue flowers thrusting itself, against all expectations, from the springtime hedge which seems already too full, while the purely formal imitation of variety ... is but void and uniformity, that is, that which is most opposed to variety....”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)