If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it. — Michael R. Burch Copy Share Image
“A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.” — George Saunders Copy Share Image
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“I love what I see because one day I will cease to see it. And simply because it is.” — Ricardo Reis Copy Share Image
Be brief on the logic and reason portion of your presentation. There are probably about a thousand facts about an automobile, but… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity. — Mohsin Hamid 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
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
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
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
“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
For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is… — William Shakespeare 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
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
... 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
Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it… — Laura Riding 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
“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
It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
As a writer, I'm too busy and worried to experience the delight while composing my own work, although, of course, I hope… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness… — Bertrand Russell 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
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
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
“The present life of man upon earth, O King, seems to me in comparison with that time which is unknown to us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
