#disappeared

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#british #british empire #could #disappeared #empire

'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude. ↗

— Gary Ross

#could #created #debt #depths #disappeared

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century. ↗

— Balthus

#century #craft #disappeared #evidence #hardly

I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#almost #anyway #child #disappeared #force

The Jews must realize that their influence in Germany has disappeared for all time. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#germany #influence #jews #must #realize

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#disappeared #earth #ever #face #quarrelsome

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one. ↗

— Jerry Stiller

#become #decided #depression #disappeared #during

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#banned #because #been #bees #disappeared

It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#beings #completely #day #disappeared #early

And when you started looking into Roger East, it was almost like he had disappeared from history. ↗

— Anthony LaPaglia

#disappeared #east #had #history #into