Virginia Postrel Quotes

The kindly light has a brief period of shining.

Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone.

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

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.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

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

It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.

All things are only transitory.

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

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.

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.

A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.

People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

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

No blessing lasts forever.

This isn't meant to last. This is for right now.

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

Not in my lifetime.

Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.

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

Good things only can last so long.