Fading Quotes - Page 7

• If you are a star in Hollywood then you are always a star in your eyes, but not always in the eyes of new directors for whom your great performances are always fading into the past.

  Lee Grant

  Stars, Eye, Past

  4 Copy quote

• There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet?

  Charles Stross

  War, Believe, Writing

  4 Copy quote

• Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Memories, Butterfly, Mean

  Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.10, Granta Books

  35 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've lived the American Dream, but, sadly, for too many, the American Dream is fading.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Dream, American Dream

  7 Copy quote

• The individual who fears the criticism of others is no different from the one who seeks their praise. Both are shadow figures, fading into the landscape, lacking the will to act for themselves.

  Richard Bode

  Criticism, Shadow, Different

  6 Copy quote

• Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset?

  Daniele Vare

  Horse, Flower, Sunset

  Daniele Varè (1954). “Novels of Yen-Ching”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophical, Thinking, Doubt

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In view of the fading animals the proliferation of sewers and fears the sea clogging, the air nearing extinction we should be kind, we should take warning, we should forgive each other Instead we are opposite, we touch as though attacking, the gifts we bring even in good faith maybe warp in our hands to implements, to manoeuvres

  Margaret Atwood

  Animal, Air, Views

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “Selected Poems: 1965-1975”, p.161, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Country, Twilight, Mind

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• So in the heart, When, fading slowly down the past, Fond memories depart, And each that leaves it seems the last; Long after all the rest are flown, Returns a solitary tone,— The after-echo of departed years,— And touches all the soul to tears.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Memories, Heart, Past

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think of myself as a fairly decent human being and it gives me great pain to be considered for all the mean S.O.B.s that come along. I've played bird decapitators, puppy stranglers, woman beaters, wife poisoners, child molesters - every goddamn thing you can think of. It was quite scene there for a while. But I think the image is changing...I hope to God the old image is fading from people's minds.

  George C. Scott

  Children, Pain, Mean

  9 Copy quote

• Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads; and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Spring, Flower, Seeds

  Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.382

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled-to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world. I want to believe I am looking into the white fire of a great mystery. I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing-that the light is everything-that it is more than the sum of each flawed blossom rising and fading. And I do.

  Mary Oliver

  Believe, White, Fire

  Mary Oliver (2013). “New and Selected Poems, Volume One”, p.102, Beacon Press

  161 Copy quote

  Show source

• Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls.

  Alfred Noyes

  Flower, Towers, Tolls

  Alfred Noyes (2008). “The Flower of Old Japan”, p.60, Wildside Press LLC

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• [Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate it.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Powerful, Passion

  7 Copy quote

• Yes, God loves you this very day and always. He is not waiting to love you until you have overcome your weaknesses and bad habits. He loves you today with a full understanding of your struggles. He is aware that you reach up to Him in heartfelt and hopeful prayer. He knows of the times you have held onto the fading light and believed-even in the midst of growing darkness. He knows of your sufferings. He knows of your remorse for the times you have fallen short or failed. And still He loves you.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Prayer, Struggle, Love You

  51 Copy quote

• The world is sagging, snagging, scaling, spalling, pilling, pinging, pitting, warping, checking, fading, chipping, cracking, yellowing, leaking, stalling, shrinking, and in dynamic unbalance.

  Donald Barthelme

  Sagging, Shrinking, World

  1974 Guilty Pleasures,'Down the Line with the Annual'.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• On the Continent and elsewhere in the West, native populations are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic.

  Mark Steyn

  Population, West, Aging

  Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.33, Regnery Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Justice is a fading light.

  Sheryl Crow

  Light, Justice, Fading Light

  Song: Love Is A Good Thing, Album: Sheryl Crow, 1996

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I loved my time on All My Children. That show was a family to me. I am so sad that daytime is slowly fading away. I owe so much to daytime. I learned so much about my craft and I made so many wonderful friends there and I am so sad that it is all going away.

  Eva LaRue

  Children, Wonderful Friends, Going Away

  Interview with Shane Saunders, www.csifiles.com. April 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.

  Don DeLillo

  Past, Talking, Moments

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Falling Man”, p.81, Pan Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I came on board, it was halfway through his [Frank Sinatra] 72nd year, and when he did his last show he was gaining on 80. He knew it, the audience knew it, and there was never any attempt to conceal such a thing. His vision wasn't what it had once been. His hearing wasn't. His memory was fading. He knew these things. He was very much in need of help, and I was so happy to be able, in a small way, to render that help.

  Frank Sinatra, Jr.

  Memories, Years, Vision

  Source: www.dailypress.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Those cultural wars, Sexual Revolution issues are fading from the scene, and the coming generation has basically settled them.

  David Brooks

  War, Issues, Generations

  "Shields and Brooks on high stakes for debate moderators, a dead heat in the polls". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. September 9, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Shakespeare, of course, makes us ever aware of transience, not only in the sonnets, but also powerfully in his plays - spectacles for a brief period of time and then gone, as when Prospero describes the pageant fading, leaving "not a rack behind."

  Martha Ronk

  Play, Leaving, Gone

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The copies of The Catcher In The Rye or To Kill A Mockingbird that I own look like they were printed yesterday, and there's not a nick, not a blur, there's not any fading on the jacket at all, because they were taken and protected. A limited edition, by nature, is limited, and also probably more protected because of that. I'd rather have a first trade edition than a special one of 25 that was made years later, even if it's signed by the author. The trade edition is the Holy Grail.

  John Larroquette

  Taken, Years, Yesterday

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source