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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. -- John Steinbeck
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. -- Susan Sontag
I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife. -- E. O. Wilson
Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road. -- Richard Le Gallienne
My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa. They're my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically vanishing. -- Nick Brandt
My first film, 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' I really just kinda went in for it. Just gave it my all at the auditions. -- Jacob Latimore
I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action -- Philip Larkin
I was in a movie called 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' and that was my first leading role in a movie. It's an apocalyptic thriller, and it's really cool. It's the first movie I ever shot. -- Jacob Latimore
Sleep is not, death is not; Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man and young maid, Day's toil and it's guerdon, They are all vanishing, Fleeing to fables, Cannot be moored -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian. That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday. -- Will Rogers
Your eye level is your reference point for drawing the perspective lines. All lines above your eye level will go down to the horizon vanishing point and all lines below your eye level will go up to the horizon vanishing point. -- Robert A. Lovett
America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking open space, and of an over-all environment that is diminished daily by pollution and noise and blight. -- Stewart Udall
Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene. -- Ben Hecht
I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is behind and within the chaos of vanishing points of human knowledge-adds a wonderful stimulus to the man who attempts to penetrate into the regions of the unknown. -- Louis Agassiz
Every so often a disappearance is in order. A vanishing. A checking out. An indeterminate period of unavailability. Each person, each sane person, maintains a refuge, or series of refuges, for this purpose. A place, or places, where they can, figuratively if not literally, suspend their membership in the human race. -- John Murray
Quick souls have their intensest life in the first anticipatory sketch of what may or will be, and the pursuit of their wish is the pursuit of that paradisiacal vision which only impelled them, and is left farther and farther behind, vanishing forever even out of hope in the moment which is called success. -- George Eliot
With her foot on the threshold she waited a moment longer in a scene which was vanishing even as she looked, and then, as she moved and took Minta's arm and left the room, it changed, it shaped itself differently; it had become, she knew, giving one last look at it over her shoulder, already the past. -- Virginia Woolf
The past is a trail you leave behind, much like the wake of a speedboat. That is, it's a vanishing trail temporarily showing you where you were. The wake of a boat doesn't affect it's course-obviously it can't since it appears behind the boat. So consider this image when you exclaim that your past is the reason you aren't moving forward. -- Wayne Dyer
It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again. -- Alan Moore
After macrobiotics, Zen, and channeling, the "poor Vanishing Indian" is once more the subject of "deep and meaningful conversation" in the high rises. -- Mary Brave Bird
In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event. -- Jeff Goodell
It's not a question of McDonald's vanishing from the face of the earth. It's a question of these companies assuming some more responsibility for what they're selling. -- Eric Schlosser
Newspapers and magazines are vanishing. But science writers are not. In fact, they are becoming so adept and varied that I hardly have time to read 'Gawker' anymore. -- Michael Specter
There's no such thing as median income; there's a curve, and it really matters what side of the curve you're on. There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing. -- Marc Andreessen
We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces. -- Richard Le Gallienne
Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It's as simple as that. -- Werner Herzog
Al Gore, the former vice-president of the United States, lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average family's bungalow! David Suzuki rides on a bus that uses more fuel than a Smart car to get across Canada! Oh my God! And this is just the tip of the vanishing iceberg! -- Linwood Barclay
Tom Snyder was born to broadcast. He loved television and it loved him back. In that, he was a member of a vanishing breed, especially as narrowcasting displaces broadcasting, 'online' replaces 'on the air,' and any Tom, Dick or Mary can be monarch of a desktop domain, uplinking themselves to satellites in space. -- Tom Shales
If achieving the Hong Kong dream becomes a vanishing hope, then our society will suffer. What would the Hong Kong dream be? It's no different from the American dream, whereby an everyday man on the street who works hard would be able to make good savings and use those savings as equity for their future small business. -- Richard Li
I remembered being young in the late '70s and early '80s and growing up at the height of the Cold War. I remembered how scared I was of nuclear weapons, how often I though about them and about the possibility of everything and everyone I knew vanishing in a second in temperatures hotter than the centre of the sun. -- John Niven
I'm not vanishing into thin air. -- Kate Bush
Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing... -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Already the dandelions Are changed into vanishing ghosts. -- Celia Thaxter
Life itself is vanishing fast. Make haste for eternity. -- Robert E. Murray
There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing. -- Marc Andreessen
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter. -- Roger Scruton
The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder. -- Douglas Coupland
The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals. -- Robert E. Sherwood
Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion. -- Paul Theroux
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More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie. -- Corrie Ten Boom
The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace. -- Paul Theroux
But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules. -- James Dashner
Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes. -- E. M. Forster
In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point. -- Marshall McLuhan
Like vanishing dew, a passing apparition or the sudden flash of lightning -- already gone -- thus should one regard one's self. -- Ikkyu
Religion is the servant of the vanishing; science, of the existence! Disappearance belongs to the chaos and the Devil; existence, to the God! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Even though in the world you are the most learned scholar of the time, Behold the vanishing of this world and this time! -- Rumi
There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The more we wait, the more everything and everyone looks like a grain of sand escaping between our fingers before vanishing into the wind. -- FÃ¡bio Moon
One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink away. -- Alasdair Gray
I feel myself dissolving, vanishing into nothingness, for if there is no one in the world who cares for you, do you really exist at all? -- Cassandra Clare
We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked about with such profundity. -- Cornel West
The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is indeed a Eurydice, vanishing as soon as gazed upon. It can exist only in acceptance, and succumbs as soon as it is laid claim to. -- Denis de Rougemont
We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing. -- Jules Renard
The vast majority of species that are vanishing, we haven't even discovered yet. How can you possibly put them back in nature if the ecosystem is gone? -- E. O. Wilson
Love and hate, black and white, Right or wrong, who is right? Some smoke joints to anoint their brain To the vanishing point...so they won't go insane. -- Pharoahe Monch
Mindfulness, as defined by the Buddha, means awareness of incessant change, of arising and vanishing, inside of your own body, which is the ultimate reality of your own life. -- Paul Fleischman
I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon. -- Orson Welles
PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity. -- Ambrose Bierce
The older woman waiting for admittance looked at me, then over her shoulder at Patch, who was vanishing down the hall. â??Honey,â? she told me, â??he looks slippery as soap. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
A man seems never to know what anything means till he has lost it; and this I suppose is the reason why losses--vanishing away of things--are among the teachings of this world of shadows. -- Orville Dewey
Doormen are kind of invisible, people don't know their names. They just say, Thank you, or Good morning. I'd never thought about doormen before. They're a vanishing breed. More electronic doors are being introduced. -- Bob Newhart
...the amazing exhibition of oil which has characterized the last twenty years, and will probably characterize the next ten or twenty years, is nevertheless, not only geologically but historically, a temporary and vanishing phenomenon... -- Peter Lesley
Anarchism is that political philosophy which advocates the maximization of individual responsibility and the reduction of concentrated power regal, dictatorial, parliamentary: the institutions which go loosely by the name of "government" to a vanishing minimum. -- Alex Comfort

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