#disappear

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. ↗

— Doug Larson

#acts #after #beat #disappearing #eight

I just play to the people I can see. So it's almost like you are playing to the first few rows of the crowd. You can see the faces of the first hundred people, but then it becomes a blur as the crowds disappear over the hill. ↗

— Alvin Lee

#becomes #blur #crowd #crowds #disappear

Even in the realest American cinema that I see, there's still not that sense that this is reality. There's still that sense that you are watching a movie. And hopefully, if we did get our jobs right, that sense disappears when you watch this movie. ↗

— Joshua Leonard

#american cinema #cinema #did #disappears #even

The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look. ↗

— John Vinocur

#any #armies #bravery #disappears #emotions

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#disappeared #in the past #learning #literature #much

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

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#become #between #big #big business #business

The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#conductor #disappear #evidence #functions #himself

The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the core of their own interests. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#asking #change #changes #core #course

If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms. ↗

— Graham Nash

#develop #disappeared #earth #every #face