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The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow. -- Harrison Ford
The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. -- John Updike
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. -- Samuel Butler
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. -- Camille Paglia
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. -- Jacques Lacan
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. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
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. -- Danielle Trussoni
Newness hath an evanescent beauty. -- Heinrich Heine
Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent." -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow. -- Harrison Ford
Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation. -- Ruth Ozeki
Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summers. -- Henry David Thoreau
Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature. -- Walter J. Phillips
Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy. -- John Constable
Carried by light, images remain while sensation is so evanescent as to be always beyond belief. -- Rae Armantrout
The forms are evanescent; but the spirit, being in the Lord and of the Lord, is immortal and omnipresent. -- Swami Vivekananda
Seen on a night in November How frail Above the bulk Of crashing water hangs, Autumn, evanescent, wan, The moon. -- Adelaide Crapsey
Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet. -- Julia Child
Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets. -- Constantin Stanislavski
While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Our knowledge of physics only takes us back so far. Before this instant of cosmic time, all the laws of physics or chemistry are as evanescent as rings of smoke. -- Joseph Silk
Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ocean can be yours; why should you stop Beguiled by dreams of evanescent dew? The secrets of the sun are yours, but you Content yourself with motes trapped in beams. -- Farid Al-Din Attar
Scientific achievements seem evanescent, because the very progress of science causes their supersedure; yet some of them are of so fundamental a nature that they are immortal in a deeper way. -- George Sarton
the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion; and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent. -- Ellen Glasgow
Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be. -- William Clark
The true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from the bottom of the sea, rescued from confusion, from indistinction, from immersion in the common, the nondescript, the trivial, the sordid, the evanescent. -- Thomas Merton

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