Quotes About Brevity

I do try and keep my scripts quite economical.

What finger-shaped Florida lacks in breadth it makes up for in length; Tallahassee is 480 miles from Miami (farther than New York City is from Cleveland).

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

In a film we have limited time and space to say what we have to, hence the visual language and brevity needs to be paramount. In a novel, however, we can dissect each thought and emotion and build on it.

People barely have anything to say in 140 characters. The last thing we need is a bunch of discursive rambling on Twitter.

The other project was, a scheme for entirely abolishing all words whatsoever; and this was urged as a great advantage in point of health, as well as brevity.

Life comes from God and life is precious precisely because it is brief. God's gift is time. However much or however little one has of it, it comes from him.

There is nothing worse than a long, rambling text from a collaborator who uses a whole page to say what can be written in a few lines."

Good things come in small packages. #Economicpackage

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

Life is a blink. It really is, it zips right past you.

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

Storytelling is shaped by two contrary, yet complementary, impulses—one toward brevity, compactness, artful omission; the other toward expansion, amplification, enrichment.

Life is short but it is wide.

It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.

Life is short, but wide.

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

Never say more than is necessary.

Men who have much to say use the fewest words.

Life is sweet, life is also very short.

It's not my accent, but my brevity makes me stylish.

From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.

Vigorous writing is concise.