Disappeared Quotes
336 Disappeared quotes by 281 unique authors
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In alarming proportions the following words have disappeared from architectural publications: beauty, inspiration, magic, sorcery, enchantment, and also serenity, mystery, silence, privacy, astonishment. All of…
— Luis Barragan
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If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.
— Mason Cooley
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I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England…
— Russell Crowe
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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
— Havelock Ellis
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The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.
— Arthur Erickson
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After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space…
— Arthur Erickson
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I always like to arrive at the airport early to enjoy breakfast and lounge about so that when I get on the plane all my…
— Julian Fellowes
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In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from me.
— Ben Kingsley
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Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991,…
— Charles Krauthammer
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You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all…
— Doris Lessing
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What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That…
— Doris Lessing
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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
— Walter Lippmann
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The Justice Department needs to investigate how Goldman Sachs was able to steer things in such a manner through their former employees in the Bush…
— Michael Moore
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If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop…
— Graham Nash
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I lost 90 pounds and my blood pressure went down to a normal level and the salt in my urine disappeared. And that was when…
— Ron Perlman
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I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that…
— Vladimir Putin
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'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat.…
— Gary Ross
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I suffer from peroxide phobia. Every time I've gotten near a blond woman, something of mine has disappeared. Jobs, boyfriends... one time an angora sweater…
— Rita Rudner
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of…
— Salman Rushdie
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It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago…
— John Steinbeck
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During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.
— Jerry Stiller
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The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.
— Paul Tillich
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I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had…
— Samuel Beckett
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Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic…
— Philip Roth
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I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films. They became very conservative in the way they created them. It's…
— Hayao Miyazaki
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