“Troubles don't tarry. They will come, but they won't spend the night.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
A manpossessesnothing certainlysavea brief loanof his own body. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
“Never mind. Never mind. In this brief life, one cannot always be counting the cost.” — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby. — John Abraham Copy Share Image
“Only in brief flashes does it come to us that we may never see someone again.” — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
More than simply capturing brief moments in time, MixBit helps people bring stories to life. — Chad Hurley Copy Share Image
We have always existed in different forms - carbon, oxygen, water, heat. Maybe Heaven is this brief period when the elements realize… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I did a brief stint with set design and stage design. And I tried playwriting, too. — Damaris Phillips Copy Share Image
The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects… — George Combe Copy Share Image
It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly believe that my book can be… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
In my midteens I went through a brief stage of religious fanaticism, but it was very much about just saying prayers and… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
I can be working on a collection and a film at the same time. It can take a lot out of me,… — Hussein Chalayan Copy Share Image
I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Making music on TV used to be as common as commercials. In the '60s and '70s, prime time was stuffed with variety… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant. — Caecilius Statius Copy Share Image
