Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Baudelaire

Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.

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.

Sid Fleischman

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

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.

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.

Rafael Vinoly

In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.

Emilio Estevez

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

Frida Kahlo

What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?

Charles Stanley

Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.

Diane Wakoski

We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.

Dave Barry

This is true; virtually all edible substances, and many automotive products, are now marketed as being low-fat or fat-free. Americans are obsessed with fat content.

Chow Yun-Fat

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me

Edith Wharton

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

Barry Commoner

In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.

Alfred North Whitehead

Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.

Karl Marx

Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.

Nhat Hanh

The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do?

Ayad Allawi

Whenever the results of the investigation come to the surface, then the time will be suitable to talk about forming the new government.

Matt Mullenweg

Whenever there's a new form of media, we always think it's going to replace the old thing, and it never does. We still have radio, however long after TV was introduced.

Trevor Hohns

We have rejigged the one-day side to what we hope will provide a range of options to take on a formidable World XI side, as well as forming the nucleus of the 2007 squad for the World Cup.

Kim Clijsters

There are a lot of good players here this week, but Amelie is in form and playing well so she will be tough to beat.

Tori Amos

I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

David Knopfler

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

Chad Harbach

The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

Mutula Kilonzo

We are going to ignore it because it has no value. It is pure nonsense and the former president will go on with ordinary life.

Gary Wolf

Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.