Disappear Quotes - Page 35

• When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Men

  Hilaire Belloc (2015). “Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)”, p.708, Delphi Classics

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• If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear.

  Jeb Bush

  Ice, Immigration, Enforcement

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• To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.

  Michael Caine

  Character, Self, Two

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hosting is work. It means you don't get to go up to your room and disappear and take a nap. Like everybody else does after lunch. I'm talking about hosting, not hosting a dinner party, but hosting people staying in your home.

  George Clooney

  Party, Home, Mean

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• To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that’s a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.

  Phil Collins

  Firsts, Labels, Records

  "Phil Collins goes "Back" to Motown favorites". Interview with Craig McLean, www.reuters.com. September 10, 2010.

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• As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.

  Daniel Craig

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Sexy

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• I'm naturally a mousy blonde, so I dye my hair, and my eyebrows would disappear if I didn't get through at least a pencil a month.

  Beth Ditto

  Hair, Eyebrows, Blonde

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2007.

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• Truth disappears with the telling of it.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Truth, Telling The Truth

  Lawrence Durrell (1960). “Clea”

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• It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

  Brian Eno

  Democracy, Easy

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• Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

  Brian Eno

  Space, Ephemeral, Painting

  "Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers talk Scape, iPad apps and generative music". Interview with Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2012.

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• Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear.

  Joshua Foer

  Exercise, Long, One Day

  Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.61, Penguin

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• We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?

  Thomas Frank

  Wall, Government, Opinion Leaders

  "Bipartisanship Is a Silly Beltway Obsession" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2009.

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• You'll know the green revolution has been won when the word 'green' disappears.

  Thomas Friedman

  Green, Revolution, Knows

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• You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Promise, Want, Knows

  "Haile Gebrselassie bows to will of his people for one last hurrah". Interview with Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2011.

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• I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.

  Jane Goodall

  Communication, Teaching, Writing

  "New mission for chimps' champion". Interview with Ros Coward, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2004.

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• The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years and now 40 percent is gone and the rest of it is going.

  Al Gore

  Eye, Years, Ice

  "What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mother, Dying, Earth

  "How a sense of sacred can help sustainable business" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2013.

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• I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

  Hugh Hefner

  Dream, Life And Death, Childhood

  "Hugh Hefner dead: The Playboy founder in his own words". www.abc.net.au. September 28, 2017.

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• I like to disappear in my roles because I don't have an assistant.

  Taraji P. Henson

  Roles, Assistants

  "Taraji Henson Defies Odds On And Off Screen". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 19, 2009.

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• My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Water, Boat

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• Thousands of people come to LA every year, and some of them just disappear. Somebody gets them. In the States around 100,000 people vanish each year. I don't know what that means. Maybe there's something that just pulls 'em out.

  Tobe Hooper

  Mean, Years, People

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• There's childhood and early onset bipolar, but it transitions in your early adulthood into something a little bit different, and extremely severe. It was at that time that my impulse control just went out the window. Impulse control when you're manic just disappears.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Impulse Control, Childhood, Bipolar

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• I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.

  Erica Jong

  Book, Writing, Hands

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• It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well.

  Diane Keaton

  Kind, Advantage, Middle

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ultimately there's a dirty secret about the Internet, which is nothing disappears. All these companies have all your information. They have your search history.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Dirty, Secret, Information

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