Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
How beautiful that after 2,000 years, no one can outdo "God is love." It's the most perfectly concise, hopeful phrase in history. — Mark Hart Copy Share Image
I'm just getting to know myself. I'm no wherwhere near to being concise about it yet. I can't define myself. Wait a… — James Marsters Copy Share Image
Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
Human justice is very prolix, and yet at times quite mediocre; divine justice is more concise and needs no information from the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
There are writers who pour out words, concepts that sound really important but that basically say nothing. I always tried to be… — Chespirito Copy Share Image
I have some irrepressible pop impulses to write an appealing, concise song. And I also have some irrepressible kind of restlessness as… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most concise summary of enlightenment would be: transcending dualism . ... Dualism is the conceptual division of the world into… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
We should never invoke the spirit of antiquity as our authority. Spirits are peculiar things; they cannot be grasped with the hands… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I think that the more alien and strange a world or situation is, the more concise you have to be if you… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
It will be my earnest aim that The New York Times give the news, all the news, in concise and attractive form,… — Adolph Ochs Copy Share Image
Crude at first [the short story] received a literary polish in the press, but its dominant quality remained. It was concise and… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
There are a set of men who go about making purchases upon credit, and buying estates they have not wherewithal to pay… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Achieving goals is a creative process. The first step in the creation of your primary goal takes place in your conscious mind.… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
People really listen to your lyrics if you rap. So, I had to make sure that they were clear and concise. — Mark Salling Copy Share Image
My purpose in public address and in speech is really encapsulated in three C's: clear, concise, correct. No overblowing rhetoric or anything… — Bob Sheppard Copy Share Image
I think most directors subscribe to the principle that less is more, and the best direction is the most concise direction. — Joshua Marston Copy Share Image
Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
In laboring to be concise, I become obscure. [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.] — Horace Copy Share Image
It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. And I think it's… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
The fact of the attempted suicide by Augusto Martinez was explained in a concise and exact form by our government in a… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
I'm a very competitive person. I always have been. And it's hard to be competitive about something as amorphous as acting. But… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
Good web text has a lot in common with good print text. It's plain, concise, concrete and 'transparent': even on a personal… — Crawford Kilian Copy Share Image
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