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Quotes About Summary

News stories are very brief summaries of someone else's summary.
~ David P. Gushee
short list is a summary of what's right. The long list
~ Jeff Olson
Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
So now you have it. The plot, the whole plot, and nothing but the plot.
~ Elizabeth Peters
The Federal Reserve ranks among the most transparent central banks. We publish a summary of our balance sheet every week. Our financial statements are audited annually by an outside auditor and made public. Every security we hold is listed on the website of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
~ Janet Yellen
Dans une seule goutte d'eau se trouve un résumé de l'ensemble de la vie, juste en face de nous, dans les cycles continus de l'oxydation et de l'oxydation des atomes d'hydrogène qui y sont.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
She ran a quick search on Wicca-pedia and came across a brief summary:
~ Eoin Colfer
Mint is designed to put your finances on auto-pilot. Whether you log in or not, it will send you a weekly summary of your balances and biggest purchases, and how your investments and budgets are doing, along with sending you alerts on unusual spending and low balances.
~ Aaron Patzer
Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person's life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader's style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.
~ John C. Maxwell
We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.
~ Ken Follett
In summary, people at lower levels on the scale have difficulty with decision-making; because they have less choice between thinking and feeling, more of their choices are emotionally driven.
~ Roberta M. Gilbert
This 60-second calling card will summarize your skills, abilities, and previous experience in a well-thought-out fashion that will immediately make the employer want to listen.
~ Robin Ryan
Thus when I have to summarize naturalized spirituality in a single phrase, it is this: the thoughtful love of life.
~ Robert C. Solomon
I had nearly five thousand volumes in my library at Rome; but after reading them over many times, I found out that with one hundred and fifty well-chosen books a man possesses, if not a complete summary of all human knowledge, at least all that a man need really know.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this.
~ Peter Sellers
I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it's just tough and almost emotionally violent - for anyone, I think - to see your personal life summarized in a sentence.
~ Ryan Reynolds
Eighteen cities in Italy were marked down for land confiscation and freeholders were summarily dispossessed.
~ Anthony Everitt
A good headline is far more than a summary. It has to characterize, in a few brief words, the most important themes and news items of the article it accompanies.
~ Parker Conrad
ANACEPHALÆOSIS  (ANACEPHALÆO'SIS)   n.s.[   or summary of the principal heads of a discourse.Dict.
~ Samuel Johnson
But Genesis adds one very significant extra element in its summary of civilization's Mesopotamian dawn. The mark of Cain becomes the mark of civilization.
~ John Dominic Crossan
Most people with ADHD or VAST have low scores in Fact Finder (which does not mean bad; there are no bad scores on a Kolbe test) because their natural talent lies in their ability to cut to the chase and summarize information instead of digging into details.
~ Edward M. Hallowell
The summary of most netizen's memory is nothing more than photo gallery only , succinctly to say selfishness personified.
~ Anuj Somany
The more clearly a man understands anything, the more readily he can summarize it in a few words.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
~ Dale Carnegie