Quotes About Brief

Estoy seguro de que la cumbre es un breve segundo, un destello instantáneo, y no hay derecho a prórrogas".

Maybe at the beginning. It didn't last long.

I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.

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

The pleasure of the act of love is gross and brief and brings loathing after it

And, just as it only takes a moment to die, it only takes a moment to live.

We'd have been a meteor shower. Over before we started.' 'Meteor showers are fucking beautiful.

I was not told to provide this document of human life. That was not in my brief. Yet I feel obliged to do so to explain some remarkable features of human existence. I hope you will thereby understand why I chose to do what, by now, some of you must know I did.

One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds?

Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.

I just met history for a couple of hours, and then our ways parted.

The note was brief—three paragraphs, two hundred and seventy-three words, the lines crowded together as if for warmth.

He does not know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is a brief one.

such a short time. I am about to tell our barker,

Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?

poems are small moments of enlightenment

Señoras señores: Por lo común los discursos de sobremesa Son buenos pero largos El mío será malo pero corto Cosa Que no debiera sorprender a nadie.

For me, an image becomes meaningless inasmuch as it's always temporary.

On a stop over at Hong Kong airport heading home we phoned the Hipgnosis studio to brief Storm on the cover design for Meddle. The title had been hastily concocted and, maybe inspired by some Zen-like image of water gardens, we told Storm we wanted 'an ear under water'. Time differences meant that neither party was on top form for the telephone discussion, but even across the intervening miles, we could hear the sound of Storm's eyes rolling.

But nothing is lasting in this world. Even joy begins to fade after only one minute. Two minutes later, and it is weaker still, until finally it is swallowed up in our everyday, prosaic state of mind, just as a ripple made by a pebble gradually merges with the smooth surface of the water.

HERE TODAY AND GONE TOMORROW. ?O USE TO MILK IS YOUR SORROW

When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.

My romances were all pleasant and brief. I cannot say why brief, except to state the obvious: that I do not have much in me that might encourage a woman to make a long habit of my company.

And so, for benign masochism to work, certain conditions must be met. The pain has to be relatively brief. It has to quickly fade, providing the space for pleasurable contrast. And the damage cannot be severe.