Quotes About Ephemeral

Programmes are like weeds - they spring up, grow quickly, and then should be allowed to die quickly.

We pop into existence and we know that we die and we know that we lose everyone that we love and we know we even lose our own bodies. And what a paradigm. What a mystery.

Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.

It's a difficult thing to be in fashion or popular - it's all so fickle.

It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.

Washington is deeply frustrating because so many of the positions that politicians hold are a product of ephemeral self-interest. They reverse themselves, for themselves, all the time.

A film writer is very much like a party girl. While you're good-looking and still unlined, the possibilities seem endless. But your appeal doesn't last long and you're quickly discarded.

I would love to give you a more in-depth coherent explanation of my view of the soul, and if I had one I would. The soul and my concept of it are as ephemeral as anybody's, and possibly more so.

We're just a bubble in a boiling pot.

Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.

A cookbook is a moment in time because, otherwise, you look back at the end of the day, and all the meals have been eaten, and the experience is gone.

Time is the scarcity, and it's the commodity we can't create any more of.

Everything is created to be annihilated.

Social systems have values - arguments baked into their design. For example, Twitter's core argument seems to be, 'Everything should be public, and messages should find the largest audience possible.' Snapchat's might be, 'Communication should be private and ephemeral.'

Athletic ability can be taken away like that. It can all end in a heartbeat.

I think sometimes when things are taken away, then you don't realize how much fun it is to come out here and play this game. You can't play it forever, so I'm going to enjoy it.

People don't become better when they're dead; you just talk about them as if they are.

A lot of comics will say that the thing about specials now is that they're not special anymore because there are so many of them, and they come and go, and they're not really talked about. They just kind of come and go.

One-hundred years from now, nobody's going to remember that I played for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays - nobody!

Light staggers through the trees. Every moment is filled with other moments.

stars that turn slowly off each dawn so that we begin to see how many things can go on living without us, — Richard Jackson, from "Triptych," Broken Horizons: Poems (Press 53, 2018)

When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.

like a sunrise or sunset, anything so ephemeral. Just like our life - we appear and we disappear and we are so important to some, but, we are just passing through.

If you can't stop time, make it vanish.