No, but I've never been one for wise ideas," he says. "I believe in irrational, fleeting decisions that keep life interesting. And life needs to be interesting because we've got only one of them to live.
There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one of us. I lived.
The elusive nature of love. . . it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.
The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred
One of the surest ways to enrich life is to make experiences less fleeting.
The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.
A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect?
There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
My adult life has been a patchwork of projects, most of which were fleeting fancies of overreaching vision. I tend to seize on things, only to abandon them due to a lack of time, talent or inclination.
Fame doesn't matter. Money doesn't matter. Those things are forever fleeting. I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so that when I'm long gone my great-great-grandchildren can walk up to it and say, "That's my ancestor. " That will be my legacy.
It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.
Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons. But when all is said and done, they have one thing in common: They are shooting stars-a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity. And in a flash, they're gone.
We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.
How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.
One of the funny things of being a producer, you have these fleeting, intense relationships with people, and they go off to global megastardom, and you don't see them.
Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.
Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.
You see a fleeting perfection of form merging with a significant substance, and you make a clicking noise only a hair's breadth away. You have judged something, reported something, ostensibly truthfully. . . And when you made a clicking noise you said something eloquently if you are skilled.
Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
To Grace, these were the things that mattered: my hands on her cheeks, my lips on her mouth. The fleeting touches that meant I loved her.