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
When I think of someone equating poems and machines, it makes me feel like that person would like poems to have a… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
So Positive Psychology takes seriously the bright hope that if you find yourself stuck in the parking lot of life, with few… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
When the universe is ephemeral, one can easily feel that human existence is meaningless. Why should I do anything at all? On… — Erlend Loe Copy Share Image
Before the discovery of these [underwater] vents, all life on Earth, the key to life on Earth, was believed to be the… — Mike deGruy Copy Share Image
Anyone who enjoys inner peace is no more broken by failure as he is inflated by success. He is able to fully… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
The movies have never been a big deal to me. The movies are the movies. They just make them. If they're good,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Genius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
As ephemeral as our footprints were in the sand along the river, so also were those moments of childhood caught in the… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I really believe we in the music industry can work together to find a way to bond technology with integrity and just… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I guess because theater's so ephemeral and it's gone. You make this nightly contract with the audience and you redraw that contract… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
My advice to whoever asks me how to make a home is to not have anything, just a few shelves for books,… — Gae Aulenti Copy Share Image
I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I've never cared that much for cementing my place in history. Sports is so transitory, so ephemeral. It just seems like so… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
“devouring their dark lips, dark with wine and fleeting love, an ancient memory love had promised but finally never gave, until there… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
Thoughts are ephemeral, they evaporate in the moment they occur, unless they are given action and material form. Wishes and intentions, the… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
Ask yourselves this question: How often is Jesus inside and knocking at the door to be let out, to come out? And… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
When a writer with a voice as good as Richard Christian Matheson's tells you something, you have no choice but to listen.… — Michael Marshall Smith Copy Share Image
I am more scared now that I was at any point since I began trading, because I recognize how ephemeral success can… — Paul Tudor Jones Copy Share Image
A writer's work has to take account of many rhythms: Vulcan's and Mercury's, a message of urgency obtained by dint of patient… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I'm very blessed, mainly because even though my family is mostly in show business, it's really centered around music. My parents were… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
He who will please the crowd and for the sake of the most ephemeral renown will either proclaim those things which nature… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
I really worry about these political people that have no personal life. If there's nothing that's lovely, and if there's nothing that's… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
If this [the Mysterium cosmographicum] is published, others will perhaps make discoveries I might have reserved for myself. But we are all… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
![“Before the discovery of these [underwater] vents, all life on Earth, the key to life on Earth, was believed to be the sun and photosynthesis. But down there, there is no sun, there is no photosynthesis; it's chemosynthetic environment down there driving it, and it's all so ephemeral.” quote by Mike deGruy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4b/mike-degruy-62137_chemistry_before-the-discovery-of-these-underwater_1280363.jpg)
![“If this [the Mysterium cosmographicum] is published, others will perhaps make discoveries I might have reserved for myself. But we are all ephemeral creatures (and none more so than I). I have, therefore, for the Glory of God, who wants to be recognized from the book of Nature, that these things…” quote by Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71b/johannes-kepler-4278_book_if-this-the-mysterium-cosmographicum-is_3106407.png)