Receding Quotes

43 Receding quotes by 38 unique authors

Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. — Edwin Powell Hubble
Actors worry about bad breath, weight, receding hairlines and why their leading lady looks like their daughter. — Matthew Ashford
I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if in any instance… — Mercy Otis Warren
The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only… — Naomi Wolf
To me the gold price takes the form of a very uncomplicated formula, and all you have to do is divide one by 'n.' And… — James Grant
All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within a closed landscape… — Ivan Chtcheglov
The future is in the hands of those who explore... and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
I'm the girl who is lost in space, the girl who is disappearing always, forever fading away and receding farther and farther into the background.… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either… — Quentin Crisp
In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the radiance of imagination. This process… — Patti Smith
The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a… — Isaac Asimov
The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon. — Sara Paretsky
When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got… — Bruce Feiler
My day-old son is plenty scrawny, his mouth is wide with screams, or yawny; His ears seem larger than he's needing, His nose is flat,… — Richard Armour
A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace… — William Gibson
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance. — Will Durant
Just looking at them I grow greedy, as if they were freshly baked loaves waiting on their shelves to be broken open--that one and that--and… — Linda Pastan
The beach has a language of its own, with its undulating ribbons of silt, the imponderable hieroglyphs of bird tracks. The receding waves catch on… — Franny Billingsley
After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back at… — Steve Toltz
She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need for imperishable bliss." Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come… — Wallace Stevens
Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever. — David Foster Wallace
All looked distant and peaceful and strange. The shore seemed refined, far away, unreal. Already the little distance they had sailed had put them far… — Virginia Woolf
Once released from life, having lost it in such violence, I couldn’t calculate my steps. I didn’t have time for contemplation. In violence it is… — Alice Sebold

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