Ephemera quotes:

Send

A little while, their hunger unfulfilled,The mothlike worlds flit 'round the guttering sun.("Ephemera") -- George Sterling
My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there. -- Maira Kalman
I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS. -- Rachel Maddow
I know the difference now between dedication and infatuation. That doesn't mean I don't still get an enormous kick out of infatuation;: the exciting ephemera, the punch in the stomach, the adrenaline to the heart. -- Anna Quindlen
Since 1970, I've been using text and ephemera as well as photographs in order to tell stories of one kind or another. There's a thread that runs through all the work that is to do with bearing witness. The photographs are about asking questions, though, not answering them. -- Jim Goldberg
Consider the stars. Among them are no passions, no wars. They know neither love nor hatred. Did man but emulate the stars, would not his soul become clear and radiant as they are? But man's spirit draws him like a moth to the ephemera of this world, and in their heat he is consumed entire. -- Sarah Monette
I take it that a monograph of this sort belongs to the ephemera literature of science. The studied care which is warranted in the treatment of the more slowly moving branches of science would be out of place here. Rather with the pen of a journalist we must attempt to record a momentary phase of current thought, which may at any instant change with kaleidoscopic abruptness. -- Gilbert N. Lewis
I think that the collectible ephemera craze/awareness is probably driven by a reverse market, rebounding off the sense of everything being mass-produced. It's the last step you take in trying to find something unique. -- William Gibson

Send