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Quotes About Briefly

Especially good spirits might be brought to the Land of Darkness only briefly or not at all.
~ Aaron Shepard
when his airplane stopped briefly at Lydda airport in 1951.
~ Adam LeBor
For tolls too briefly the sounds of mercy... In fear we ponder the use of thunder for peace
~ Shawn Phillips
The sonnet, a lyrical poem, the beauty and magic... convey with our hearts the truth of the universe in a single moment briefly.
~ R.M. Engelhardt (TALON)
The source of all life warms the living for a moment, holding them briefly before they go back to wasting their lives.
~ Robert Atwan
Visions of such things would get you talking of demons, which Quinlan had done briefly. The police ignored him, and I didn't back up his story. Quinlan had never met a real demon, or he wouldn't have made the mistake. Once you've been in the presence of demons, you never forget it. I'd rather fight a dozen vampires than one demonic presence. They don't give a shit about silver bullets.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
This poem is not addressed to you.]" This poem is not addressed to you. You may come into it briefly, But no one will find you here, no one. You will have changed before the poem will. Even while you sit there, unmovable, You have begun to vanish. And it does not matter. The poem will go on without you. It has the spurious glamor of certain voids.
~ Donald Justice
I worked at a law firm in New York very briefly.
~ Peter Thiel
This is unfair," she complained. "You have called me across the world to hear your story, and hear it I will. Tell me - as briefly as possible, for this is a disastrous waste of time - tell me how you returned to civilization.
~ E.M. Forster
I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.
~ Candace Bushnell
I did study with Anne Carson briefly in Michigan. She taught there, and that's where I first encountered her, in her class.
~ Julia Holter
I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
~ Bill Nighy
Force as well as the long-range communication abilities that had been her primary value to his regime. Those skills had vanished at the moment of his death, reappearing only briefly and erratically in the years since then.
~ Timothy Zahn
From the beginning, then, but briefly.
~ Claire Messud
When you're guest-starring, it's very nice, but you're there very briefly, and it's right there in the name: You're a guest. It's very hard to get a real sense of belonging. With recurring and regular roles, at least you have a sense that this is a home and a steady place.
~ Zeljko Ivanek
He gestured for it to sit. The bench vibrated briefly in anticipation, shedding drops of rain. The peripheral sat.
~ William Gibson
I went to USC film school, briefly, which is a very traditional film school.
~ Doug Liman
All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly.
~ Dawn Powell
I was briefly in the original version of 'Tombstone,' but I didn't make the final cut because that movie went through a couple of different permutations.
~ Joshua Jackson
Rickey wondered briefly who they were before the lovely floaty feeling wiped away his curiosity. "You got a concussion and a broken ankle, but you're gonna be fine.
~ Poppy Z. Brite
Wonderful, how an injection of pure speculation—never mind the questionable logic—icy-cold and colourless as a shot of opium, can deaden briefly even the worst of afflictions. Briefly.
~ John Banville
Fine, I'll touch you, briefly, but only because you sound like you need the praise that your body's hot, and I'm totally selfless like that.
~ Unknown