There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.

Operationally God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

I was a fairly good amateur musician and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

Blanche talks about aging and why should she be considered poor because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful and so telling and so true.

Often the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past regret for their fading beauty.

In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people but we're now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman J. K. Rowling Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals.