Quotes About Brief

He watched her go, wondering if life ever offered happiness in more than very small, very brief doses. T

Nothing is longer than a little while.

Tom Donilon walked in to brief me on a developing situation involving an issue I'd never been asked about during the campaign. "Pirates?" "Pirates, Mr. President," Jones said. "Off the coast of Somalia. They boarded a cargo ship captained by an American and appear to be holding the crew hostage.

A territory is only possessed for a moment in time.

She takes my hand like a woman in a dream. She is in a dream, and so am I. Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief . . . but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?

They all deserve to die. Even you, Mrs. Lovett Even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us death would be relief.

Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.

Like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker.

Mine was the shortest.

I no sooner put a stem down, when it's gone.

When you file an amicus brief, and you represent a state, the court reads your brief. It is a powerful position to make the legal assault from.

Life is so fragile, so brief. And we seemingly work so hard at trying to ignore that.

I enjoyed my time in Houston but it was short-lived and it really didn't make a huge impression on my life.

I am quite hot-headed; I am quite impulsive. Fortunately, it doesn't last very long.

Life is short and so is money.

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.

A sign read: YOUR STAY HERE IS TOUCH AND GO—TOUCH AND YOU GO.

My college life was brief because I started working for my debut film when I was in eleventh standard. But I have no regrets, as I stayed in touch with my friends who keep briefing me about the drama in the college. The opportunity to get into showbiz was so exciting that I couldn't let it pass by.

Love talks and talks. Lust is brief and to the point.

There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again.

With screenplays, it's all about being as concise as possible. If you have a scene that's set in a bar, you just have to write, 'Interior: Bar.'

How brief the life allotted us by Fate!

I remember that rape case you defended, but I missed the point. You love justice, all right. Abstract justice written down item by item on a brief—nothing to do with that black boy, you just like a neat brief. His cause interfered with your orderly mind, and you had to work order out of disorder. It's a compulsion with you, and now it's coming home to you—