Tom Noddy Quotes

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'

Ephemeral should be the default.

All things are only transitory.

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

A trend is exactly that, and it's going to disappear.

There's certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater.

What I do and what I record only work for the moment.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

Today's news, which may be yesterday's anyway, will be eclipsed tomorrow.

Because in a split second, it's gone.

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

No blessing lasts forever.

Wind and fortune are not lasting.

The kindly light has a brief period of shining.

Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.

Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.

Bubbles are always new; you just can't find an old bubble.

I think everything is temporary.

This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.