Vanishing Quotes

89 quotes by 78 authors

... I was reminded of a remark of Willa Cather's, that you can't paint sunlight, you can only paint what it does with shadows on… — Wallace Stegner
Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion. — Paul Theroux
Happiness is indeed a Eurydice, vanishing as soon as gazed upon. It can exist only in acceptance, and succumbs as soon as it is laid… — Denis de Rougemont
Al Gore, the former vice-president of the United States, lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average family's bungalow! David Suzuki rides… — Linwood Barclay
In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event. — Jeff Goodell
Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the… — Victor Hugo
Perspective is a law of optics... The Chinese did not have a system like it. Indeed, it is said they rejected the idea of the… — David Hockney
The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the west's greatest mistakes… — David Hockney
The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals. — Robert E. Sherwood
The great purpose is to set aside a reasonable part of the vanishing wilderness, to make certain that generations of Americans yet unborn will know… — Frank Church
I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian. That I am still able to be here, I owe to… — Will Rogers
I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he… — Orson Welles
PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B… — Ambrose Bierce
Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand,… — Richard Le Gallienne
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty… — Susan Sontag
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. — John Steinbeck
I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land… — E. O. Wilson
...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and home… — Rebecca Solnit
With her foot on the threshold she waited a moment longer in a scene which was vanishing even as she looked, and then, as she… — Virginia Woolf
An eye is meant to see things. The soul is here for its own joy. A head has one use: For loving a true love.… — Unknown Author

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