Quotes About Permanence

You'll swoop from incredible highs when you're just glad to be alive, to those lows when you wish you were dead. And just when you start thinking that you've accepted who you are, that changes, too. Because who you are is not permanent

Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver, and the idea of leaving behind an everlasting legacy can spur even the most cautious person to proceed recklessly.

Warwick Castle, built of the very centuries, cannot be expected to alter with time's 'brief hours and weeks' - at least, with so few of them as fall to one poor mortal's lot. From visit to visit, I find it as unchanged as the multiplication table.

A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.

A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.

What is once well done is done forever.

There are so many challenges and different parts to the job of singing. When you're in the studio, you have to be really, really, precise. You've got to keep everything clean and nice because that's going to be something that's down forever. And then you go onstage, and it's much more in the moment.

You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.

Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.

But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever.

With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.

Email will probably be around for many decades to come. It's hard to say what will happen 20 years from now, but email has been around for decades, and it will likely be around for decades more.

We've never been anti-permanence. We just belief deletion should be the default.

Architecture, by definition, is always standing still.

I wanted to talk about how stupid music is. I wanted to talk about how awesome music is, and how depressing it is, and why we all make music if it doesn't last forever.

Building a house is a lot like moviemaking. The attention to detail, the sense that you're doing something that has longevity.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

I used to think I could save tap. But tap was here way before I was, and it's going to be here after I'm gone.

I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.

I love my tattoo and I think it looks great. It's like an old pair of jeans, it's beat up. I remember when I first got it outlined. I'm like 'why don't more guys do this?' Then I realized the pain.

Getting a tattoo is arguably one of the most insane decisions a sensible human can make.

People have actually had my face tattooed on to their bodies, which is so odd.

Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.

Two friends and I decided to get tattoos of different animals. My one friend got a bulldog. My other friend got a bull, I think, and then I got a shark. Two years later, there was a cartoon called 'Street Sharks,' and by happenstance, it looked eerily reminiscent of my tattoo. Actually, it was identical.