#ceases

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time. ↗

— Brian Eno

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When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public. ↗

— Elena Kagan

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When it ceases to be fun, I'll stop and just stay in my restaurants. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#fun #i #just #restaurants #stay

Now, I don't actually know the exact cut-off age where beautiful ceases and 'must have-once-been-beautiful' begins. It's true it's not forty-five. I can still get attention when I try really hard, even if it's greatly reduced. ↗

— Paulina Porizkova

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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#ceases #exist #expression #freedom of expression #offend

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also. ↗

— Edward Coke

#cause #ceases #ceasing #effect

When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing. ↗

— Leonard Woolley

#bad thing #becomes #business #ceases #digging

The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive. ↗

— Loretta Young

#care #ceases #only #only time #second

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#controversy #interest #subject #thing