Quotes About Brevity

On the geologic time scale, a human lifetime is reduced to a brevity that is too inhibiting to think about. The mind blocks the information.

In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.

The story can be told without many words.

by their brevity when Dorothea had to

But I hasten to finish my story. Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand.

Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand.

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

Writing is harder than acting. I enjoy acting for just the brevity with which you can be in the experience of doing it. Writing is kind of more satisfying in that you're creating a world and doing something that feels bigger, but it's very time consuming and has a higher threshold for failure.

Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.

Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.

Wisdom is made up of ten parts—nine of which are silence, and the tenth is brevity of language. A

In real life sweet moments are short and dulled by time.

Singolare e straordinaria è la brevità del tempo impiegato dal fascismo per conquistare il potere. Il partito bolscevico aveva 14 anni quando conquistò il potere con un colpo di Stato nel 1917.

Space has failed us, and we must be unmeaningly brief.

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.

But the shortest works are always the best.

I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.

I apologize for such a long letter - I didn't have time to write a short one.

Eschew surplusage.

I don't have time to write you a short letter, so I'm writing you a long one instead.

deve-se evitar toda prolixidade e todo entrelaçamento de observações que não valem o esforço da leitura. (...) É sempre melhor deixar de lado algo bom do que incluir algo insignificante. (...) Sobretudo, não dizer tudo!

Poetry can be tedious. Too many words to say a simple thing.

Know this: we are a long time dead. Life may be short, but it is sweet."53