For years, I've been wondering what could happen to nuclear submarines when they dive and disappear from the surface of the earth for months, without a trace. No one really knows where they are.
Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.
Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear.
It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.
I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.
Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.
You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.
I understand why people achieve a level of fame and disappear, I never understood it before, but it's an attractive prospect to walk away from it all.
... A nightmare is something you awaken from, Peter," she had said. "But thoughts and ideas that remain after its terrors have disappeared are something considerably worse.
Samantha Powell: Your constant second-guessing of others, that crystal-ball bullshit? That hyperverbal vocabulary-vomit thing that you do. I disappeared around you, Hnak.
Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion.
This is not the first time that Mexican authorities have handed over an Arab from a country with known Al Qaeda connections to a local sheriff across the border. FBI picks them up and disappears.
Every time a bit of information is erased, we know it doesn't disappear. It goes out into the environment. It may be horribly scrambled and confused, but it never really gets lost. It's just converted into a different form.
Dr. Baugh: Sometimes I wish I had a pill to make people disappear.
Jean-Dominique Bauby: Like a sailor seeing the shore disappear, I watch my past recede, reduced to the ashes of memory.
[Terence Mann is about to call his concerned father about his "disappearance"] Terence Mann: [chuckling to himself in disbelief] What do I tell him?
Clown: [of Jack's disappearance] This has never happened before! Big Witch, W.W.D.: It's suspicious. Small Witch: It's peculiar. Vampire: It's scary!
Captain Needa: They can't have disappeared. No ship that small has a cloaking device.
The Baroness: You're far away. Where are you? Captain von Trapp: In a world that's disappearing, I'm afraid.
[Truman has disappeared and everyone is searching for him] Ron: [into his radio] I don't give a damn, just find the son of a bitch!
House-Painting Victim: He painted my house a disgusting color. He said he was a painter. I couldn't believe the results. Then he disappeared.
