Quotes About Brief

I can't stay long; I'm in between meals.

I don't know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.

I felt I had a good chance of playing for England for exactly 67 days - the length of time Sam Allardyce was manager of the Three Lions in 2016.

Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.

The only way you can handle big kinds of questions is to simply state briefly what the truth was. What am I going to tell you about the Holocaust? Would you like three pages about it? I don't think you would... I don't think anything different than you think - it was horrible.

I'm a flash in the pan: a novelty.

Everything in life is just for a while.

Living toys are something novel, But it soon wears off somehow.

I've never really lived with somebody. Only for very brief periods. I learned I'm not a good roommate. I'm better off when we visit each other. I like the mystery.

The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting.

I'm short and to the point.

You can tell a lot in shorthand.

I wanted so much to have a life. Even just once, even for a second.

His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.

Aquí también esa desconocida Y ansiosa y breve cosa que es la vida. (Here too the never understood, Anxious, and brief affair that is life.)

The happier the moment the shorter.

It was just a very short period of time that I had a brief marriage.

I like to have the actors do their thing. And then brief them what to do differently in take two.

I remember 'Resurrection Boulevard.' It was on for such a brief moment, but they were trying to do a good, Latino, Mexican-American family with a patriarch.

Everything gains only momentary explanation.

they're here for a moment and then gone. At best they have liftoff power, or, to use a different analogy, they are like periodic flashes of lightning on a dark road, with no guiding power.

The rocket stood in the cold winter morning, making summer with every breath of its mighty exhausts. The rocket made climates, and summer lay for a brief moment upon the land.

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

Well, ultimately nothing lasts. Everything is temporal, but some things last longer than others.