Quotes About Brief

cuando te indignares sin medida, recuerda que la vida humana es infinitamente breve y que dentro de poco estaremos todos tendidos en el lecho fúnebre.

Like an attachment to a sparrow: we glimpse it and it's gone.

But this effervescence was frenetic and likely to vanish in an instant;

All life is no more than a match struck in the dark and blown out again.

We like to think of life as a constant ... Yet it can be ended in a heartbeat.

Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.

If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they'd probably come to less than sixty minutes.

The battle, if you could call it that, lasted no more than a few seconds.

It's brief and bright, dear children; bright and brief. Delight's the lightning; the long thunder's grief. — John Frederick Nims, "Days of Our Years," Selected Poems (The University of Chicago Press, 1982)

He read Leo Tolstoy's The Gospel in Brief and was deeply influenced by it.

So much of what we read and write these days is disposable.

Sólo dispongo de una vida, dijo. Un breve momento entre dos noches. Y el mundo es una aventura formidable que no estoy dispuesto a perderme.

In fiction, a reaction shot is a brief portrayal of how your character reacts to something that someone else has done. In contrast to more direct character building, your guy doesn't initiate the sequence; he completes it. Exactly how he completes it can tell readers a lot about him.

I have to grab audience attention even if I don't last beyond 2-3 minutes before the camera.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

the truth about the paradoxes of Bernard Shaw. Each of them is an argument impatiently shortened into an epigram. Each of them represents a truth hammered and hardened, with an almost disdainful violence until it is compressed into a small space, until it is made brief and almost incomprehensible.

I was barely in 'Taking Woodstock.'

I am gone tomorrow. And there and gone again by the time you read this.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.

Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time.

You're like this little blip of light that lasts for a very brief time and you can shine as brightly as you choose.

I don't have to tell you folks about scuba diving. So, that'll save some time.

It's a town you come to for a short time.