The perception of the horizon is an earthbound event; all horizons disappear in space, and we are left shorn of the sweet roots that have held us to the earth, challenged to imagine what is truly present just before us, a unified and seemingly limitless universe.
When I’m writing a first draft of a script, I can disappear into that for two, three months exclusively.
Many actors come and disappear into oblivion. But not Salman Khan.
I can’t disappear. I come from a family of beautiful women, strong women – and ‘strong’ defined by being themselves.
I would hate to see the idea of freedom disappear, and I wonder if maybe it will.
Hardcovers will never completely disappear. They are delightful to hold; they feel weighty and substantial. But my anecdotal evidence suggests that the world is changing.
Everyone has golden years sparsely throughout their life, but good things happen and then good things disappear. But you’ll always have those good times, and when you’re on your deathbed you’ll be able to look back on those times when you were with the girl of your dreams.
Flaubert called himself a human pen; I would say that I am a human ear. When I walk down the street and catch words, phrases, and exclamations, I always think – how many novels disappear without a trace! Disappear into darkness.
We’ve been together since we’ve been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it’s like nothing ever has changed.
Poisonous frogs feast on insects that don’t even have names. Tropical lizards disappear into the cracks of trees whose branches spread out as wide as their trunks climb high. This is the real Florida, as it was before people, and probably will be after us, too.
Your brand is your public identity, what you’re trusted for. And for your brand to endure, it has to be tested, redefined, managed, and expanded as markets evolve. Brands either learn or disappear.
I want to disappear in a role.
A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.
I want to be an artist that grows slowly. If you appear overnight, there’s a chance that you will also just disappear overnight.
It’s estimated that one million girls in India ‘disappear’ every year.
You know, many people who become famous and enjoy great success when they’re young disappear after that. Maybe I’ve lucked out because I came back and went to work.
Print books have an amazing superpower because they don’t disappear when you’re done with them. Books on the shelf remind you that they exist.
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
I really believe action will always be there and will never disappear.
Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.
I don’t feel we need to be independent for me to feel confident in my Scottish identity. I think Scotland is pretty comfortable in its identity. We won’t need independence to preserve it… if we don’t become independent, it won’t disappear; it isn’t under existential threat.
Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That’s just not in my nature.
We’re not living in a society that science actually dominates the conversation. We’re living in a situation where some science is allowed and a lot of it’s about policy. And when your science runs into a policy roadblock, all of a sudden the science starts to disappear.
It’s just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd.
As a child I’m sure I was no different from any other human being struggling to navigate the difficulties and complexities of their childhood and adolescent years. I feel it’s a time when all of us need an escape, a place where we can leave the world behind and just disappear. For me, it was film.
Remember the referendum on the Charlottetown constitutional accord? The more Canada’s political and business elites threatened Canadians that the country would disappear into a black hole if the accord weren’t passed, the more Canadians opposed it.
When DVDs finally disappear, I’m going to be sad. I’ll miss the commentaries.
I have this desire to just while away weeks, months and years. It took me two years to make this record but that was with me trying to condense my process and not disappear down the rabbit hole with all the cool things I’ve collected. I could take 10 years and not explore everything I want to with these instruments.
I want a man who isn’t questioning who he is. I want a man to be able to stand next to me and not disappear and not be emasculated by my success.
There are plenty of people on Earth. It’s not like the human race is going to disappear if a few people don’t come back. Exploration is dangerous.
Twitter could save a lot of money by writing its executives’ names on their doors with pencil instead of fancy placards. Like an episode of ‘Suits,’ Twitter execs come, go, change jobs and disappear under black clouds every few minutes. Office administration costs must be astronomical!
The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.
I gotta make money – it all tends to disappear in this field.
The history of colonisation cannot disappear.
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
One mistake and all this attention may just disappear one fine day. So I prefer to remain grounded.
When digital technology started becoming the norm, you’ve got 50, 60, 70 years of recordings on tapes that are just deteriorating. Like, a two-inch reel of recording tape won’t last forever. It dissolves. It will disappear.
Dance, theatre, etc. as art, will disappear along with the dominating ‘expression’ of tragedy and harmony: the movement of life itself will become harmonious.
I have a longing for fiction – to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.
Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear.
When a dictatorship imprisons someone or makes them disappear, it’s actually a very strategic move. We forget that. It’s not as senseless as it seems. It’s a way to silence someone, but also it’s a way to silence their family as well, out of fear, and society by extension.
We authors certainly don’t know what is going to happen to our books. Are they going to disappear into the ether, following music downloads, or are ebooks going to open up a whole new world of readers? And how much are we being paid per copy? We haven’t a clue.
In a sense, habits never really disappear. Once formed, they always remain in our neurology.
The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It’s a perilous thing.
It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.
That’s pretty much how I feel on stage, like I can let go of all kinds of baggage, or even disappear and change outfits. I want to remind people that they can grant themselves the license to do the same.
‘The Room’ came out in 2003, really to crickets. Nobody showed up to see it. It made $1800 at the box office. Everyone assumed it was going to disappear.
I think that if a United States of Europe were to be formed, it would be in our interests to fight for it, as all our old traditions would remain in such a united Europe, whereas if we were to start now as part of the Russian Empire, everything that had ever been in Germany would disappear.
If you put too much pressure on the Palestinian Authority, it will collapse – it will disappear – and Israel will have to formally re-occupy the West Bank and assume responsibility for the Palestinians there. The United States doesn’t want that. Israel doesn’t really want that.
Geographic boundaries really begin to disappear with the Internet.
I want to really study and learn about fashion, and kind of discipline for a few years, really start to study, and then probably start my photography career. I feel like that’d be really good for me – to disappear for a few years.
I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I’d try to disappear and become formless. I lived in a very imaginary world. I loved poetry and wrote my first novel when I was 9. It was about a little girl and the people she met in the woods.
The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited – we are approaching a tipping point beyond which the opportunity to reverse the damage of CO2 emissions will disappear.
We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us into oblivion.
