Top Fleeting Quotes
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.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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.
Fred Allen
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
W. H. Auden
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust
Henri Cartier-Bresson 
Andre Breton 
Geddy Lee 
Fred Allen 
Thomas Moore 
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Randy Harrison All Fleeting Quotes
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.
Henri Cartier-Bresson 
70% of people like this quote
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.
Fred Allen
61% of people like this quote
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
W. H. Auden
59% of people like this quote
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust
57% of people like this quote
People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.
Chuck Norris
54% of people like this quote
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
Ann Landers
54% of people like this quote
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