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Quotes About Brief

We are always waiting for the perfect brief from the perfect client. It almost never happens [...] Whatever is on your desk right now, that's the one. Make it the best you possibly can.
~ Paul Arden
The second reminder is impermanence. Life is very brief. Even if we live to be a hundred, it's very brief.
~ Pema Chodron
It's only forever, not long at all
~ David Bowie
Is this a prologue or a posy of a ring? Ophelia: Tis brief, my lord Hamlet: As woman's love.
~ William Shakespeare
Ten years is a long time in this fugitive world.
~ Winston S. Churchill
the formal Master/sub union of Master Cameron and Jess. The ceremony will be brief. Hopefully, their union will be long and happy." She stepped from between Cameron and Jess and turned to face them. "The ceremony has two parts. First, the claiming mark, and then the vows.
~ Claire Thompson
People appear and disappear in an instant. No magic or wizardry in the real world of living.
~ Unknown
elle ne pouvait pas comprendre que l'humeur sensuelle d'un homme est une saison brève, dont le retour incertain n'est jamais un recommencement.
~ Colette
Transient guests are we.
~ Hideyuki Kikuchi
Life is brief, art is long.
~ Hippocrates
That's what mortal means," I say with a sigh that I don't have to fake. "We die. Think of us like shooting stars, brief but bright.
~ Holly Black
You are mortal. You will not last long.' ... 'That's what mortal means,' I say with a sigh that I don't have to fake. 'We die. Think of us like shooting stars, brief but bright.
~ Holly Black
Men flourish only for a moment.
~ Homer
Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.
~ Lian Hearn
The world will give you relief once ina while, a brief time out; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, were somebody dabs mrecy on your beat-up life.
~ Unknown
There was a brief silence. Hardly surprising, as everything in the universe sat on the other side of it.
~ Lisa Jewell
I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else they are books that have an overall structure but are composed of various texts.
~ Italo Calvino
Hiya, bud," the driver said. She was about fifty, with a square face that had been savaged and turned to old worn leather by the sun, and she stretched it into a brief professional smile for me. "Where to?" It
~ Jeff Lindsay
suddenly the sunlight was briefly snipped, as if a page had been turned in front of a lightbulb.
~ Jerry Spinelli
What I do and what I record only work for the moment.
~ Leon Redbone
on short stories: "...something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing.
~ V.S. Pritchett
But our here and now is just a blip along the continuum.
~ Peter Hessler
Is better to get an instant life, Instead of just there for life
~ Unknown
Shame is the fruit of my vanities, and remorse, and the clearest knowledge of how the world's delight is a brief dream.
~ Petrarch