Quotes About Brief

When speaking, be sincere, be brief, and be seated.

Be brief and polite," the man added in a confidential tone. He winked and exited, closing the door.

La inmensa mayoría son hombres de sociedad. Viven en la superficie, les interesa lo transitorio y lo breve. Son como madera de deriva en al riada. Sólo piden las novedades: la espuma y la cochambre del mar eterno.

The combination of Ponzi's huge personality and the enormous if brief success of his scheme, combined with the tremendous publicity which surrounded it, is ultimately what attached his name to it.

A brief life burns brightly.

A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.

They should be more like what would have been sent by telegraph in days of old (when each word cost money) than prose.

the sentence in an appellate brief that read, "In the index to this brief, the Court will find an extensive copulation of authorities on the subject.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

Yapacak bir ÅŸey yok: Ä°nsanoÄŸlu fani ve isabetle söylendiÄŸi üzere aniden fani.

I love that moment when I feel a connection to another person, however brief or insignificant.

I thought I was going to cry but it passed

Cheesethief's latest promotion was swift but brief. He never knew what it was that snuffed his life out!

If the Earth were as old as a person, a typical organism would be born, live and die in a sliver of a second. We are fleeting, transitional creatures, snowflakes fallen on the hearth fire.

He raised his sunglasses and saw a young woman in an impossibly brief dress with an improbably welcoming smile

There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You lie there entirely empty of thought, except for a growing suspicion that heading towards you, like a sockful of damp sand in a nocturnal alleyway, are all the recollections you'd really rather do without, and which amount to the fact that the only mitigating factor in your horrible future is the certainty that it will be quite short.

People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.

I'm more keen on roles that have a lasting impact even if I get only a minute on screen.

You don't even live once.

wouldn't stay long. She told

How short a time a person had to be alive, he thought. How long to be dead.

The best you can wish for anyone is a video game death. Which is to say, spectacular and brief.

The best you can wish for anyone, Sam decided, is a video game death. Which is to say, spectacular and brief.

The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (...) beautiful.