Quotes About Brief

Some people are like shooting stars. They burst through our lives in a spectacular arc, but they don't stay long. They just leave a trail.

Se piensa a veces en la muerte. Tal vez se piensa siempre en la muerte y no se cree que pueda ser tan breve, tan simple, tan rotunda.

Nas?l da canl?yd? hepsi. Nas?l da çabuk bitti rüya.

I wasn't a child actor. It was just three weeks of my life when I was eight.

I had a brief stint as 'People's Journalist' for the West Sussex Gazette; I'd do golden-wedding anniversaries and pet deaths. I was always looking for an angle; it wasn't great.

Ephemeral should be the default.

I met Clinton at a benefit for teachers, which was a very good charity, but I met him for about 90 seconds, and I thought it was important to meet the leader of the free world. So I stood next to him for a photograph, and then apparently that's all it takes.

We are as ephemeral as rain drops.

Now tell me, Loial. What do you know of Be'lal. And briefly, for once. I want your long memory, not your long wind.

The revolution lasted six minutes and covered one hundred an twelve meters.

She's terse. I can be terse. Once, in flight school, I was laconic.

We are chaotic chemical propositions, in dire need of basic principles that we can adhere to during our brief rational spells.

Try to be brief, will you, Tru?" Tse-Mallory asked his companion. "If there is one among us who is guilty of persistent loquacity," came the reply smoothly, "it is not I." "Debatable" was Tse-Mallory's simple retort, as he followed September up the steps leading out of the temple. "Not without being guilty of the crime of debating!" shouted Truzenzuzex

A merry life and a short one shall be my motto.

But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!

Life is a vapor. It passes in the blink of an eye.

Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.

Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!

... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty.

In our age of increasing distractions it's more important than ever to find ways to maintain perspective and remember that life is brief and tender.

Not for good. Just for now.

Such peaceful intervals never lasted long.

I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, lay in this file. It was a very thin one.

Briefer is better, so learn to write tight