#vanish

I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished. ↗

— Black Elk

#again #back #came #changed #dancing

At the end of the Middle Ages, nobody would ever have expected the monasteries to vanish from the scene within a generation - yet they did. Change does happen. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#change #did #does #end #ever

I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#badly #critical #environment #especially #had

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#sight #society #them #vanish #which

The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode. ↗

— Spalding Gray

#continues #crime #explode #face #fact

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined. ↗

— Philip Guston

#am #arbitrary #arrives #destined #falls

I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#ever #films #hang #hitchcock #i

What career? A man's got a body of film of about four movies in about 10 years or something. I do it because I think I can do a good job of something and I'll enjoy it, do it, and sort of vanish. I don't want to be an actor for hire. ↗

— Paul Hogan

#actor #because #body #career #enjoy

Thousands of people come to LA every year, and some of them just disappear. Somebody gets them. In the States around 100,000 people vanish each year. I don't know what that means. Maybe there's something that just pulls 'em out. ↗

— Tobe Hooper

#come #disappear #each #every #gets

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#civilization #european #exists #name #now