Quotes About Pithy

I can be very dry and sarcastic.

I'm short and to the point.

undemonstrative in a burly fat-pig style

She's terse. I can be terse. Once, in flight school, I was laconic.

simply being laconic.

I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.

I'm a man of few words." "If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary.

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

Keeping it short goes a long way.

In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.

He was not the type to use three words when two would do.

He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.

I try to leave out the parts that people skip.

She's terse. I can be terse. Once, in flight school, I was laconic.

Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!

Pierpont was, by nature, a laconic man.

The language of Cat's generation was far harder than that of her own, and more pithily correct: in their terms, he was a hunk. But why, she wondered, should anybody actually want a hunk, when non-hunks were so much more interesting?

Thera started sputtering. "You fool. You idiot." She stopped because Blaethe's response was much pithier and far more creative. She nodded approvingly. "What he said.

As proverbs are meant to be portable, it is essential that they should be packed up in few words...

Clarke, define resplendent. I think it's shining, sir. Pithy, Clarke, but adequate. McCourt, give us a sentence with pithy. Clarke is pithy but adequate, sir. Adroit, McCourt. You have a mind for the priesthood, my boy, or politics. Think of that.

I don't have to tell you folks about scuba diving. So, that'll save some time.

But the shortest works are always the best.

Goethe is always pithy.

minimalist clumps.