Quotes About Soap Bubbles

#1. Because, sir, in case you don't know it, words move, they change from one day to the next, they are as unstable as shadows, are themselves shadows, which both are and have ceased to be, soap bubbles, shells in which one can barely hear a whisper, mere tree stumps.

Jose Saramago

#2. The most special times in a person's life are not meant to last forever. They're like bubbles rising from a plastic ring dipped into a soapy solution. The soap bubbles rise, with the sun flashing brilliant colors, then bursts into a showery memory mist.

Julius Thompson

#3. The mind is constantly involved in thinking, in judging, in evaluating. Its whole function seems to be to keep you involved in thoughts, which are nothing but soap bubbles - or perhaps soap bubbles have more substance to them than your thoughts.

Rajneesh

#4. Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.

John H. Aughey

#5. The May sunshine makes both the trolls and the elves disappear, he thought. They burst like soap bubbles. Only human beings remain, for a little while. We are a brief song beneath the sky, laughter in the wind that ends in a sigh. Then we too are gone.

Johan Theorin

#6. To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.

John Mason Brown

#7. It can only be our familiarity with soap bubbles from our earliest recollections, causing us to accept their existence as a matter of course, that prevents most of us from being seriously puzzled as to why they can be blown at all.

Charles Vernon Boys

#8. Don't ever over-analyze your results. Don't ever try to find your own secret or the one which you admire. One does not try to catch soap bubbles. One enjoys them in flight and is grateful for their fluid existence.

Ernst Haas

#9. I thought about my beautiful dreams and wondered if they would drift away just like those lovely soap bubbles.

Ji-li Jiang

#10. And to me also, who appreciate life, the butterflies, and soap-bubbles, and whatever is like them amongst us, seem most to enjoy happiness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. Surfactants allow us to protect a water surface and to generate these beautiful soap bubbles, which are the delight of our children.

Pierre-Gilles De Gennes

#12. Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like soap bubbles.

Jodi Picoult

#13. I love you ... even if you are insane."
Kellan was chuckling as he opened the shower door. "Good, because I think I'm going to be burping soap bubbles for a week.

S.C. Stephens

#14. Little, impalpable worlds, were those soap-bubbles, with the big world depicted, in hues bright as imagination, on the nothing of their surface.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#15. He saw time turn back upon itself, a river flowing upward to the spring. He held the contemporaneity of two moments in his left and right hands; as he moved them apart he smiled to see the moments separate like dividing soap bubbles.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#16. I learned to swallow words back, hold secrets on my tongue until they dissolved like soap bubbles.

Lauren Oliver

#17. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as single and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet, on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#18. in 1944 the Germans executed brutal, slaughtering attacks on the people of mountain Crete.

Adam Nicolson

#19. I want to taste that sweet little mouth of yours," he says, but he's not done. He's just using a dramatic pause to build the tension for the next bit. And it's good that he does, because the next part is this: "Before I make you come so hard you forget who you are.

Charlotte Stein

#20. There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell.

Michael Stipe

#21. You are always a comedian by default. You are this way because you've been forced to be this way, but it is better to be the hero. So if you can be a persona, the great one of my lifetime of course was and is Marlon Brando.

Woody Allen

#22. Man is a creature who gets used to everything, and that, I think, is the best definition of him.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#23. The shimmering bubbles of happiness that had been floating all around me popped one by one, the whole breathlessness of our summer becoming nothing more than old soap on a stained industrial carpet.

Heather Demetrios

#24. Happiness is as fragile and fleeting as a bubble soap. Water down the last dregs of happiness and turn them into bubbles to fill the void. It may nothing more than an illusion, but it was still better than the emptiness.

Kanae Minato

#25. I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world.

Mark Twain

#26. Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.

Marquis De Sade

#27. If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.

Dan Harmon

#28. There are moments of sincerity. Those moments float away like bubbles but he takes the trouble to dip the wand in the soap and blow them through.

Carole Radziwill

#29. Go where you add value. Don't look for places where you're just like everybody else.

Paul Wachter

#30. Few dignitaries made speeches that Myra said were so full of soap that if we looked closely, we'd see bubbles coming out of their mouths.

V.C. Andrews