Sudden/style

Famous quotes containing the words sudden and/or style:

“It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“In comedy, the witty style wins out over every mishap of the plot.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)