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“You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.”

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“The house, the pond, the tree-it was all both overwhelmingly familiar and different from what she remembered-smaller and shabbier, somehow. It was like waking up to find that your reflection in the mirror had aged overnight, or had sprouted a new mole: You were forced to admit that things changed, whether you gave them permission to or not.”

Different House Tree Changed Reflection Wake Up Mirrors Familiar Remembered Waking Permission Things Change Ponds Moles

Book:Liesl & Po

Source: Liesl & Po

“We had no irony when it came to girls, though. There was just no time to develop it. One moment they weren't there, not in any form that interested us, anyway, and the next you couldn't miss them; they were everywhere, all over the place. One moment you wanted to clonk them on the head for being your sister, or someone else's sister, and the next you wanted to....actually, we didn't know what we wanted next, but it was something. Almost overnight, all these sisters (there was no other kind of girl, not yet)had become interesting, disturbing, even.”

Knows Kind Moments Wanted Form Girl Next Interesting Missing Irony Disturbing Kind Of Girl

Book:High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

“In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.”

Want Our Society

Author:Oleg Cassini

“And some days, he went on, were days of hearing every trump and trill of the universe. Some days were good for tasting and some for touching. And some days were good for all the senses at once. This day now, he nodded, smelled as if a great and nameless orchard had grown up overnight beyond the hills to fill the entire visible land with its warm freshness. The air felt like rain, but there were no clouds.”

Ifs Universe Felt Air Land Trump Rain Clouds Hearing Warm Senses Hills Visible This Day Touching Freshness Tasting Nameless Orchard Trill

Book:Dandelion Wine

Source: Dandelion Wine

“People are impatient. They want things to happen overnight, and have no idea of the circumstances and situations that can surround an individual at times.”

People Want Ideas Happens Individual Situation Circumstances No Idea Surround Impatient

Author:Rohit Sharma

“Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.”

Wells Known Well Known Animator

Author:Terry Gilliam

“I'm on so late I'm definitely the last seconds of anyone's attention. So I just want to give them something dumb to laugh at, so they go, 'That's funny,' then fall asleep.”

Want Giving Lasts Fall Attention Laughing Late Dumb Seconds

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“I wanted fame, but I thought it would be incremental, and I became afraid of the overnight-sensation thing.”

Would Be Wanted Fame Sensations

Author:Wes Bentley

“Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.”

Childhood Our Children Transition Unnoticed

Book:The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years.”

Ifs Years Two America Growth China Britain Two Years Carbon Emissions Carbon Emissions

Author:Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

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