Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

There is no coming toward it or going away from it; it is, and you are it.

Bryan Adams

I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers.

Edward Gorey

Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.

Edward Gorey

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.... You can describe all the externals of a performance - everything, in fact, but what really constitutes its core. Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is what's left over after you've explained everything else.

Charlie Munger

The SEC does way more good than harm - the last thing I would do is get rid of the SEC...if accounting were thoroughly fixed, a lot of other sins would go away. We're paying a huge price for deterioration of accounting.

Bob Saget

When you're famous, you're always famous. It doesn't go away.

Bill Vaughan

Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away... a bigger fool than when he came to it.

Bruce Campbell

It'll die down like every other genre, but horror has always been one of the four or five main genres that will never go away.

Eddie Vedder

If it's a band I like, I just hope they will survive it all. And I'll admit that if it's crap music, I hope they won't and it'll go away. Simply because there are too many great bands who should be heard in their place.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone.

Dee Hock

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.

Charles Baudelaire

Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.

Dan Savage

I really enjoy doing theater, but doing theater in Seattle is like dropping a brick in a bottomless well. It's gratifying, but it's almost like doing radio. It's ephemeral.

David Byrne

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.

Sid Fleischman

Adult novels are as ephemeral as newspapers. Children's books stay in print for decades.

Frida Kahlo

What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?

Emilio Estevez

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

John Malkovich

Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.

Benjamin Franklin

Increase in me that wisdom Which discovers my truest interest, Strengthen my resolution To perform that which wisdom dictates.

Ashleigh Brilliant

If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.

Tom Zbikowski

The only resolution I have is winning this game. I don't really have anything else.

Chuck Palahniuk

If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.

Anna Julia Cooper

Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.

Mark Gurwell

We're the first to have the combination of resolution and sensitivity to be able to do this experiment.

William Shakespeare

Who is so firm that can't be seduced?

E. Hicks

While we would like to have had some resolution today, we are willing to wait,

Benjamin Franklin

No Resolution of Repenting hereafter, can be sincere.