Fade Quotations

If memories were indeed like what a camera records, they could be forgotten, or they could fade so that they are no longer clear and vivid. But it would be difficult to explain how people could have memories that are both clear and vivid while also being wrong. Yet that happens, and it is not infrequent.

I think it's better to burn out than to fade away... it's better to live out your days being very, very active - even if it destroys you - than to quietly... disappear.

My career is a burden, but I can't just fade out like a pathetic sore loser. More often than not, I'm just making a fool of myself for the hundredth time, and that wasn't part of the plan, initially. I'd be happier not having any kind of public presence whatsoever and just hiding behind the sleeves of the CD.

Being a father can 'unreason' your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights. It's sad that children's open-eyed wonder and sense of play begin to fade as they approach adolescence. One grand function of fathering is to keep the fading to a minimum.

I think it's sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare.

Your grandparents came of age in the Great Depression, when everyday life was about deprivation and sacrifice, when the economic conditions of the time were so grave and so unrelenting it would have been easy enough for the American dream to fade away.

I always loved hitting a low fade to a back-right pin with the wind howling from the right. Not many guys could get it close in that situation, because they kept it low by just putting the ball back in their stance. You see, playing the ball back turns you into a one-trick pony - you can only hit hooks.

I sometimes look at my bookshelves today and wonder which volumes my sons will treasure in twenty or thirty years. Which should I be saving for them? Which will fade with time?

Now personally, I think the president should golf every day and never have a press conference. I want the leader of the free world to be as stress-free as possible. And if golf helps fade the psychic heat from the job, by all means tee it up often, Mr. President.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

We started to fade a bit, started to lose focus the last couple of weeks. We talked about tightening up, taking care of the little details and just sort of refocus and regroup.

We're going to see refineries further ramp up gasoline production as they come back on line. Concerns about gasoline will fade as this results in increased stocks.

Major social movements. . . eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

She's right. He will be missed, but the images are so powerful that they will not fade away.

O Nanak, that Primal Color which the Lord has applied, shall never fade away.

Some companies do in fact retain their gains while others fail and fade like a fading rocket.

May your joys be as bright as the morning, and your sorrows merely be shadows that fade in the sunlight of love. May you have enough happiness to keep you sweet, enough trials to keep you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to keep y

Now rather thank I God there is no riskOf gravers scoring it with florid screed.Let my inscription be this soldier's disc.Wear it, sweet friend. Inscribe no date nor deed.But may thy heart-beat kiss it, night and day,Until the name grow blurred and fade away.

One thing he can do better than most is jump. That (the fade pass) is always a good route for him.

I have come to realize that love doesn't change, it doesn't become untrue, it doesn't fade or disappear. We change. We change how we see love. We change our expectations, hopes fears, or doubts. So, don't let the feelings you have at one moment in time dictate your love for someone or something. The truest test of anything is time.

I didn't want to look distinguished; I wanted to look fun, and also to fade into the street, into the King's Road. If I don't fade into a room at White's, that's fine. My father was chairman of Brooks' and the Beefsteak, and I was brought up in that life, and it bores me rigid.

I'd like to make teams pay for not taking me. Maybe that will fade eventually, but for now, it still stings.

I am still in a little bit of shock. I was beaten up for two days on the stand years ago (by an aggressive defense lawyer). The DNA did not fade away. DNA does not lie.

Bury bad thoughts under good ones. Then the bad ones will just fade away and be forgotten.

I can't emphasize enough that their top players bought into the system, they're working hard, playing well and that sets the precedent for the young kids. No, absolutely not. I think there's nights we do. For the most part, the effort has been there for us. But when we get in trouble, we fade away.

I don't think so, ... He remembers those other 12 games. They didn't fade from his memory.

With Michigan State, it was seven minutes to go in the game and we fade away. The other night (against Minnesota) with 2 1/2 minutes to go we were winning, then we faded away. So, the time that we are fading away is getting (smaller). We're making progress.

We threw a quick pass, a fade route, and they called holding on our center. Our center didn't even have a chance to hold (because the play was so quick). It's a different ballgame (without the penalty).

We threw a fade route to No. 5. He made a great play.

What we had seen primarily in the past was we'd have a bright flash of high-energy radiation and then it would just fade away gradually,

Here's to this fine couple. May their joys be as bright as the morning, and their sorrows but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love.

Kate has had a lot of amazing Ironman success so I knew she was going to be tough at the end when I was starting to fade a little bit. I saw at the turnaround that I had a mile on her, and I though that unless I really messed up I should keep the lead. I'm still kind of new at this and I'm always trying to judge my pace.

I think the faculty will discuss it in their classes. It's a teaching moment, a learning moment. People will refer to this for a period of years, but time always makes things fade after it goes out of context, I think people will choose something else.

I thought we made him earn every one of them. And he earned that (last) one. It wasn't like he got a wide-open look. He had to extend his body up over the top of a defender right on him and fade backwards.

I think it was 'Tales of Topographic Oceans' on 8-track that was the funniest thing because it would fade out in the middle of a song and fade back in again, and when the tracks change, it was quite amusing.

I think everyone looks at the playoffs as a new start and we are doing no different. We started to fade some the last two or three weeks of the season and after spring break I just told the guys it's time to start over.

Paperbacks blink in and out of print like fireflies. They also, as older collectors have ruefully discovered, fade and fall apart even more rapidly than their owners.

Some of the families stay in touch, ... And some fade away and you never hear from them again.

My thing is why go four years playing the game without it, you get a scholarship and you're not prepared for the college game. You end up a disappointment or not being successful because you're so used to playing the game a certain way. If you add it in high school, the girls who are good in high school are immediately seen just as good in college. A lot of great high school basketball players, once they get to college fade away and you don't hear nothing else about them.

Napster has always been a questionable business. They've never been a business making money. So what this really puts doubt on is whether they're ever going to be a service that makes any money or at some point they're just going to quietly fade away into Internet oblivion.

Mark's designed his team to get the ball in the right hands of the right people at the right places. He runs a lot of things for A.J. Jackson on the left block. They run a lot of fade screens. I have their plays written down.

I think same-sex marriage is an issue that won't be settled soon, nor will the need to change public perception fade away next year.

The American consumer feels good, he has the money, he's not worried about losing his job and yes, the stock market has fallen, but that's way down on his list of concerns. I think that growth is going to slow a bit but it's not going to fade into the sunset.

Winter pastures are almost nonexistent. If I had to fade my placement estimate, the USDA might even report a number higher than mine.

We happened to start writing pop songs in a time when the old music business was beginning to fade and a new kind of music was emerging.

We were about six inches from being up 14-7 on a fade route. We were one camera angle away from having the ball on the half-yard line. We could have easily scored 28-21 points in that game.

We only hope, in the next few weeks, Debbie will fade to a footnote.

There are a combination of forces which could be positive, on net. The market's been held hostage by the election and Iraq, and those may at least temporarily fade as preoccupations if better economic news takes hold.

What's clear is that these incumbents see the writing on the wall for election 2006, that even while Tom Reynolds begs his members to stay put, this is a good year for Republicans to quietly fade off into the sunset and disappear from politics, not try to fight to stay in it.

You hear about these sexual predators really heavy, then they just kind of fade off and you don't hear about it any more,

We just reached down deep inside and decided that we weren't going to fade into the night. We fought back, and we scrapped. That's what we've been trying to get them to do all season.

What shall I say? Everything that I could say would fade into insignificance compared with what my heart feels, and your hearts feel, at this moment.

Every state every year will have some number of cases -- maybe it will just be a handful of cases, but it will never really just fade away completely like St. Louis encephalitis does, ... Even in the inter-epidemic period, there will always be some West Nile activity somewhere in the country.

There's still a little bit of pain, it's still kind of there. But it's good enough to practice and play. Hopefully it will just fade away now over the next couple of weeks.

I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.

I use fast curves, pitched overhand and sidearm, fastballs, high and inside, and an underhand fade away pitch with the hand almost down to the level of the knees.

The temptation to defeat the government will be overwhelming. They know that when this issue fades, their fortunes fade with it, so sooner is better than later.

Teenagers are some of the most passionate, dynamic and creative people I know. Yet, too often, this creative spark is left to flicker precariously and sometimes fade entirely.

Orion may seem very peaceful on a cold winter night, but in reality it holds very massive, luminous stars that are destroying the dusty gas cloud from which they formed. Eventually, the cloud of material will disperse and the Orion Nebula will fade from our sky.

Declare today a holiday -- imagine every day is a holiday. Do one little thing that stimulates this holiday mood each day, then watch your worries fade away.

As a rule, memories fade with the passage of time, instead of remembering with specificity but providing no dates or times as backup. It was the first time, to our knowledge, these things have ever been said.

You need to get there early...I suggest you wait a week or so, the interest will fade and you should be able to attend. I appreciate your interest in our nation's justice system.

They put us in a whole lot more man-to-man situations. I would have liked to come out on top on that fade that they threw.

Americans have seen plants closed down, jobs shipped overseas, and our hopes fade away as our economic condition collapses, and George Bush does not get it,

The yen may be well supported until Fukui's press conference. Expectations of his hawkish comments on a policy shift are not likely to fade away.

There's a lot of experimenting and showing off going on. Eventually the better stuff will survive, and people doing it for a thrill will fade away.

This is where new stars are made, old stars fade away.

They're a huge attraction but they don't necessarily, after the first year or two, pay their way, so to speak. To some degree, as the newness wears off, even your corporate sponsors start to kind of fade away.

It's kind of all right that these people fade from the scene, because you have to understand that they didn't do what they did for the movement to stay in that mode -- of marching in the streets for social change -- for 50 years. They wanted it to find its way into the necessary institutions of American society.

It's about time. It's been too long, and memories can fade after a lot of shots to the head, too. I'm sure it'll feel even better once it starts to sink in after a couple days.

It looks as if the NHS will gradually fade away, and we shall go back to a great deal of private medicine.

Eighteen months tops, everybody's gone. The accomplishments you've already achieved will fade away like butter in the sun. In the university world, if you pause for a while, and two or three years later, you say we can start again, you're farther back than you were when the whole enterprise began.

That is our challenge this year, trying to get him to play consistent night in and night out and not drift and fade away.

Its completely ridiculous and totally out of our control, ... Its like, OK, well if it doesnt work then ultimately you have to claw your way back or not. Youll just kind of fade until another works or doesnt. I mean. Its really an insecure bizarre profession.

It's hard for me to draw the ball nowadays, ... So it's more of a pull. I try to pull it off the tee. I can pull it left. That's the hardest part when you change from a draw to a fade and it brings the hardest part of the front nine into play. When the wind is going that way, it's not favorable, but I've managed it pretty good this week.

It's better to burn out, then to fade away.

I wanted to make a point to Paul that he has to take the ball to the basket instead of shooting those fade shots. I guess I haven't done a very good job of that this year, and so I reverted back to a way I know best.

I wanted to make a point to Paul that he has to take the ball to the basket and he's got to quit taking those fade shots. I guess I haven't done a very good job of that this year, so I reverted back to a way I know best.

They did not fade in that Crusaders game in a very intimidating environment and could quite easily have won it.

They aren't all looking for a piece of the rock. It's also about investment. When their 30 percent rate of return goes to zero, from a portfolio prospective, real estate starts to fade a little bit.

Things come up from time to time and people get frustrated. They say things which probably they don't really mean and are not as important as they are made out to be. I think if we keep looking at success a lot of these issues would fade away.

Anytime you're in a pressure situation you find out who's going to step up and do it and who's going to fade into the background.

The consumer numbers look fairly strong, although at least some of that strength is likely to fade in coming months if housing continues to weaken. The mortgage applications data suggest home prices are already weakening.

I'm going to kick back and watch some baseball. I'm not ready to commit. Even being at home and pitching in Houston was a tough grind. ... Right now, I'm not interested in getting in there and locking in on this. If it works out and I can just fade away, that's what's going to happen.

I'm getting to the point where I'm going to just sort of fade away,

I just was playing him off the press. He ran that kind of fade route, and I was just playing his hands, you know? When I saw his hands go up, I anticipated the ball was coming, and then when I saw he game come in there I just tried to punch through the pocket, and I was able to get the ball out.

If moisture gets in under the glass (covering), it can completely ruin the painting. They also do fade like a watercolor on paper.

I need no inspiration other then Nature's. She has never failed me yet. She mystifies me, bewilders me, sends me into ecstasies. Besides God's handiwork, does not man's fade into insignificance?

If you use regular powder or strong soap (to wash it), it will fade even faster. If you hand-wash, it will last a lot longer.

In the end it was our horrible start that did us in, which is the opposite of what we usually do (come out strong and fade as the game goes on). Our big thing is that we don't play consistent basketball but tonight I thought we did except for the first quarter and the last two minutes of the third.

He's such a low-key, classy individual. And what he's been able to achieve hasn't been given just due. He's such an ambassador of the game. Football's been good to him, and I hope he reciprocates it by staying close to the game. I hope he doesn't completely walk away; I hope he doesn't fade away.

Housing-related activity has definitely slowed and its contributions to economic growth, both direct and indirect, will fade over the next couple of quarters.

Before the details of the collision start to fade in any human beings' mind with time, we want to see if we can capture their memories while they are still fresh, and get their understanding in their own perceptions and their own words, the details surrounding the accident, timeline leading up to it, everything.

He busted his heart out there. He was driving between those big guys and making things happen for us. He wouldn't let us fade away. We just didn't have enough left at the end.

These inflation effects should fade even if energy prices remain elevated, so long as monetary policy keeps inflation expectations well-anchored.

And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Filled with mingled cream and amber I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chambers of my brain -- Quaintest thoughts -- queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

Space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind union of the two will preserve an independent reality.