Permanent Status

Famous quotes containing the words permanent and/or status:

“When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. This is always exhilarating and sublime.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.”
—Clive James (b. 1939)