Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.
I want a nonfiction that explores our shifting, unstable, multiform, evanescent experience in and of the world.
If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.
We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.
The soul of man is one of those subtle and evanescent substances that, as long as they remain still, the organ of sight does not remark; it must become agitated to become visible.
I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly.
As a girl, I used to zip myself into a snowsuit, fall into the deepest snowdrift I could find and sweep my arms and legs into the powder, making snow angels that would crumble within minutes of their genesis. Despite their rapid disappearance, something about these frozen, evanescent angels has stayed with me ever since.