I've been really aware of how important it is to me to just stay in the moment and enjoy it while it lasts. Because that's all you've got. If it ends, I'll move on to doing something else. If it lasts, great.
I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.
If 'Bobby McGee' lasts, if 'Star Is Born' lasts, if 'Help Me Make It through the Night' lasts, if all of 'em last, man... who cares?
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.
There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast.
It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.
Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
Every weekday morning, I picture my first paragraph while I hike with my dog Milo near Mulholland Drive, looking out over the San Fernando Valley. I edit the paragraph, then memorize it, so that when I get back home and sit down at my computer, the blank screen's tyranny lasts only a second or two. A brief reign!
You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that's great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we'll see.
A first love is something that lasts forever in your heart. It's something that marks you.
People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
Every spring, this happens: People discover hockey when daylight lasts longer and men grow beards and tie games do not end in shootouts but rather continue until a goal is scored. The seventh game only heightens the mood for players and fans alike.
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.
This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.
For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles.
Nothing is possible without men, but nothing lasts without institutions.
Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.
I can't say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction only lasts five minutes.
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.