Michael Mosley Quotes

My mind has always kind of operated with this band like it's gonna be over tomorrow.

I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'

Ephemeral should be the default.

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

No blessing lasts forever.

Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.

That's kind of just the nature of our business, is that you're really putting a lot of energy and time and care into something that isn't necessarily going to last forever.

What I do and what I record only work for the moment.

All things are only transitory.

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

A trend is exactly that, and it's going to disappear.

I feel like I wanna have a series of moments. It's scary when they say you're having a moment, because moments are momentary.

Trends don't mean very much to me. They come, they go, they turn around.

But acting is very much a profession that is you're hot one moment and not the next - and that is totally cool. I think that's what I find most fascinating and most exciting about it - is that it can be gone in a puff of smoke.

An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.

People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.

Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!

I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I've heard applied to a lot of people that I've since not heard of again.

Actors, they come and go, you know.

Robert, you are just a transient. I have seen them come and I have seen them go and I’ll be here long after you have gone.

Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.

Television is fickle, and it's fleeting.

I was offered a lot of reality shows in the past. I continue to be offered things like 'The Surreal Life.' I did one in 2002, right after the attacks on the World Train Center. It was called 'Celebrity Bootcamp.' It sounded exciting and cool when they presented it. When you get down to it, it was corny and cheesy.