Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life — Protagoras Copy Share Image
Breath and brevity are sisters; the long-winded is an enemy who muffles your heartbeat. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us. And there is a beauty that brevity provides.” — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins. — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there… — Martial Copy Share Image
Brevity is the soul of command. Too much talking suggests desperation on the part of the leader. Speak shortly, decisively and to… — Cyrus the Great Copy Share Image
“From her character in the HBO miniseries: "The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. This above all: to thine own self be true. No legacy is so… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
With vivid words your just conceptions grace, Much truth compressing in a narrow space; Then many shall peruse, but few complain, And… — John Wolcot Copy Share Image
Given the brevity of our time here, it does seem likely that our species, too, must have at best a blinkered understanding… — Karen Russell 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
Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
A form wherein we can enjoy simultaneously what is best in both the novel and the short story form. My plan was… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Favorite books and authors while growing up - I'd need a book to list them all. For the sake of brevity: Shakespeare,… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions… — Jack Vance 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
The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity… — Eduard Suess Copy Share Image
“The words are few, and the sentence short; no one in Scripture so short. But it fareth with Sentences as with coynes… — Lancelot Andrewes Copy Share Image
Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As you know, shibumi has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it does… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of… — Aldous Huxley 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
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
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
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