Fleeting Experience Quotes

was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music--do I wake or sleep?

A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment - and the thing has vanished, because it was pure effect; but it leaves a relish behind it, a longing that the accident may happen again.

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.

When we watch dance, the artists and the audience are part of a momentary collective experience that will never happen again.

With film, oftentimes you work in a vacuum and then you get on a high wire and then you try it and then the day's over and that piece of film exists somewhere in a vault for 1000,000 years and that's it.

When it's all over, it'll seem like a dream.

With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on Oprah, Fox News, the Early Show, and Good Morning America. Oprah was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short; you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.

Great sex is wonderful while it's happening, but who remembers great sex they had in 1983?

Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.

Theatre is alive and it is now, and then it's gone.

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.

I am for an art of things lost or thrown away. . . I am for an art that one smokes like a cigarette. . . I am for an art that flutters like a flag.

When I started working on 'Michael And Michael,' it was my life for three to four months, and then suddenly it's gone.

We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.

As for theatre, there's ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can always say the production was better than it was.

When you start having lunch and actually eating, it's already over.

...For grace may only be found briefly, and always in the midst of madness.

Once I've taken photographs, I look at them, and I get into them, and I'm there for the moment - and then that's it. I find little time for reflection.

You know what I mean? Real and unreal, beautiful and strange, like a dream. It got me high as a kite, but it didn’t last long enough. It ended too soon and left nothing behind.” That’s how it is with dreams,” said Priscilla. “They’re the perfect crime.

It was so quick for me on 'SNL.' It's not something I consider to be, like, one of the big spaces in my career.

Existence is a party. You join after its started and you leave before its finished.

Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic.

If by happiness you mean ecstasy ... Yes, I've known ecstasy, and it's a blessing to be able to say it because those who can say it are very few. But ecstasy doesn't last long and is seldom if ever repeated.

Testimony is not something you have today, and you are going to have always. A testimony is fragile. It is as hard to hold as a moonbeam. It is something you have to recapture every day of your life.