Quotes About Brief

the most powerful and enduring human interactions are often very brief. You can spend hours with someone, but if you are not present and attentive, the hours are less powerful than these brief cereal moments.

Then he smiled, and his face looked for a moment

Today I met with a subliminal advertising executive for just a second.

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

I hate partying. If I'm forced to go to a party or a social gathering, I go in at 9:30 and leave at 10 P.M.

The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful. However much she thought of to tell, however the words flowed in her head as she performed her chores, despite the emotion that swelled and throbbed while the storylines formed, the telling was inevitably brief and blunt, a poor thing, stunted as a failed crop.

Nuestras miradas se encontraron brevemente. Al poco, mi padre se levantó y se refugió en su habitación, herido de silencio

I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.

The industry's memory is quite short, it's true.

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everyone is standing around reloading

The policy are to be commended.' Aschenbach replied, and after a brief exchange of meteorological observations the manager excused himself.

In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental health, though where's his basis for comparing?

It is when we are confronted with...poignant reminders of mortality that we become most aware of the strangeness and wonder of our brief life on Earth.

There's no secret behind press releases. They're nothing more than two or three paragraphs describing what's memorable about your story. It is that easy.

My temper's only like a summer storm. It's over in a minute.

From "Ships" The marketplaces of the Imagination have shops that are grand and opulent, but not of any great duration. Their transactions are brief, they dispose of their merchandise swiftly, and they are immediately liquidated.

Life's but a day at most.

memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously.

I've only been to New Zealand once, about 1989. It was incredibly beautiful, kind of like the ideal of where I live in New England - all that and then some - but I can't say I was there long enough to get any very clear idea.

We are living now. We shall not live long. No one should tell us we shall live again. This is our little while. This is our chance.

we are all on the road that leads to the edge of our mortality. Life is too brief to waste a minute of it chasing after things that don't matter.

Surely even a brief time is better than no time?

I'm not in the mood for a lecture," I warn the clump of weeds by my shoes. "I'll try to keep it brief." Peeta takes a seat beside me. "I thought you were Haymitch," I say. "No, he's still working on that muffin.

After a brief period in which I had let many a Southern Californian convince me that it was all 'in my mind,' I am once again officially allergic to dogs.