As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Ephemerals: That's what Hub called them; flowers that bloomed and died in a matter of weeks, before the trees leafed out and… — Pamela Todd Copy Share Image
Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. Failure to distinguish clearly between the two is ruinous. Success follows those adept at preserving the… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
“Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“...the bittersweet reminder of life's ephemeral pleasures, of opportunities that pass...These experiences would never be repeated and for that I was sad… — Kevin Revolinski Copy Share Image
It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths;… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It’s the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Feminism wasn’t supposed to make us miserable. It was supposed to make us free; to give women the power to shape their… — Debora Spar Copy Share Image
When one is that powerful and one think life will last like that forever, it is simply the most ephemeral thing. I… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
“Don't fret my dear. If art is translation of the ephemeral into observable form, then always remember that it is the translationn… — Jomny Sun Copy Share Image
As I get older it gets harder and harder to hold on to the ephemeral excitement. When a documentary, or a screenplay,… — Andrew Neel Copy Share Image
A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Celebrities were quick to understand that paparazzi could make icons of them. The more a star is followed and admired, the greater… — Ron Galella Copy Share Image
The ephemeral part of this work is that in music production, the sounds evolve so much faster than it used to, which… — Steve Aoki Copy Share Image
I think we defy entropy and impermanence with our films and our poems. We hold onto each other a little harder and… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I'm stuck struggling in the cold water, and all I can do is grieve, grieve, in the hoar necessitous horror of the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
It was Sophie ( Sophie Arp Tauber, woman artist and later Arp's wife) who, by the example of her work and her… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write.… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Perhaps summer's ephemeral nature is what inspires us to embrace the beach read. We tell ourselves that these twisted plots and wild… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Acting is ephemeral. It's not like making a painting that lasts forever. You're doing something, and the very action which comes and… — Giovanni Ribisi Copy Share Image
He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
that pathetic short-cut suggested by Nature the supreme joker as a remedy for our loneliness, that ephemeral communion which we persuade ourselves… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man's real… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Being more mature now, I've managed to make peace with my past, as it's making peace with me. Certainly there's a mutual… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
We are not grand because we are at the top of the food chain or because we can alter our environment -… — Aron Ralston Copy Share Image
One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory. It comes… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
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