It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity. — Antonio Porchia Copy Share Image
“Since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins. — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it. — LeCrae Copy Share Image
All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it. — Michael R. Burch Copy Share Image
I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story. — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief,… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke. — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
“I have not quite come to terms with the brevity that people crave as they dash through life, flitting from one thing… — Mala Naidoo Copy Share Image
Cocktail parties for me can be nerve-racking. The brevity of conversations, the number of them - it's not my sweet spot. — MacKenzie Scott Copy Share Image
As touching the gods, I do not know whether they exist or not, nor how they are featured; for there is much… — Protagoras Copy Share Image
“The story of a life can be as long or as short as the teller wishes. Whether the life is tragic or… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
"What is the greatest surprise you have found about life?" a university student asked me several years ago. "The brevity of it,"… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
My biggest poetic influences are probably 20th-century British and Irish poets. So I suppose I'm always listening for the music I associate… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
If the hand be held between the discharge-tube and the screen, the darker shadow of the bones is seen within the slightly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... if variations useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being perserved… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through… — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
The word itself has another color. It’s not a word with any resonance, although the e was once pronounced. There is only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
