Chris Crutcher Quotes

People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'

Ephemeral should be the default.

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

All things are only transitory.

Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.

Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and it can be forgotten fast.

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

No blessing lasts forever.

The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

Not in my lifetime.

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

This business is crazy-pants. We flit in and out of these fantasy worlds and these intense periods of work and camaraderie, and then it goes away, and you do it all over again.

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

Television is fickle, and it's fleeting.

I like when things happen very quickly, just flash in and flash out. It keeps things interesting.

This is a fickle industry. Here today, gone tomorrow. I don't want to spend all the time reflecting. I want to spend it doing.

The fame game's fun, but it's not forever.

- DON’T WORRY, IT WON’T BE FOREVER. - Good. - IT MAY SEEM LIKE FOREVER.

"No" is just a moment in time.

I'm not asking for forever, Tamani said. Yet. I'm just asking for a moment.

Nothing is so fickle and uncertain as popularity. It is here today and gone tomorrow. It is a sandy foundation, and sure to fail those who build upon it.

I don't want to say temporary, because temporary is such a trendy word.

I think the best thing about a bubble is that it pops and is gone. That is what makes it so precious.

It's just comical how short-term people's memories are.