Brief Quotes

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest.

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.

Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.

No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948.

They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness.

If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.

I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices.

Anytime you open your mouth there's going to be someone who's put off. I try to deal with that by keeping the topical portions of my show brief. I realize that some people wish my comments were briefer.

We're drinking my friend, To the end of a brief episode, Make it one for my baby, And one more for the road.

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain.

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.

I strive to be brief but I become obscure.

A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.

Here we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking me if there are pictures of me in my drawers.

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.

As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.