Quotes About Timeless

I think that every songwriter would give their right arm to come up with a standard that is going to be played long after they're dead.

Palms are like cockroaches. They were here long before us, and they'll be here long after us. They're the only things standing after a hurricane.

'Gremlins' is one of those eternal movies that stands the test of time and that everyone loves and knows.

I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.

'Mean Girls' stands the test of time as one of the greatest comedies ever produced. I've seen it way too many times, and I just think it's the most brilliant thing ever written. I love it so much.

You want to make a record that stands the test of time and that people enjoy.

Good songs are what a good band is all about. When you have a good song that stands up to the test of the time, that is the most important thing.

I think it's important for every artist to have that ballad that stands the test of time.

You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.

Very old are the woods; And the buds that break Out of the brier's boughs, When March winds wake, So old with their beauty are-- Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.

When a man's hand touches the hand of a woman, they both touch the heart of eternity.

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style

all men are the same age.

Man builds no structure which outlives a book.

Men may come and men may go but I go on forever.

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived.

In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago. Our spiritual needs are still very great.

Some years ago, I read an article about two people in the arts (alas, I can't remember who they were) who'd been married for many, many years. Asked for the secret of their long partnership, they said: "We fell straight into conversation when we met, and we haven't come to the end of that conversation yet." I can't think of a better model for marriage than that. Or of a narrative more romantic . . . .

Everything passes—Robust artAlone is eternal.The bustSurvives the city.