Vanishing Quotations

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.

The older woman waiting for admittance looked at me, then over her shoulder at Patch, who was vanishing down the hall. “Honey,” she told me, “he looks slippery as soap.

The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.

We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked about with such profundity.

More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie.

I feel myself dissolving, vanishing into nothingness, for if there is no one in the world who cares for you, do you really exist at all?

Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing...

We cannot develop and print a memory.

I was in a movie called 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' and that was my first leading role in a movie. It's an apocalyptic thriller, and it's really cool. It's the first movie I ever shot.

My first film, 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' I really just kinda went in for it. Just gave it my all at the auditions.

I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action

The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.

We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.

What if it turns out that a life isn’t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you’ve lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?

There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.

The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace.

Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.

Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.

The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity.

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful.

I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon.

Even though in the world you are the most learned scholar of the time, Behold the vanishing of this world and this time!

The past is a trail you leave behind, much like the wake of a speedboat. That is, it's a vanishing trail temporarily showing you where you were. The wake of a boat doesn't affect it's course-obviously it can't since it appears behind the boat. So consider this image when you exclaim that your past is the reason you aren't moving forward.