I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
“You're very perceptive for a guy who can go a whole day without talking,” she said, peering up at him. “That's why… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Robert Frost says in a piece of homely doggerel that he has hoped wisdom could be not only Attic but Laconic, Boeotian… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
In my early teens, I read every bound volume of the magazine Punch. Every writer of any distinction in the English language,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Wishes run over in loquacious impotence, will presses on with laconic energy. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
People say I talk slowly. I talk in a way sometimes called laconic. The phone rings, I answer, and people ask if… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur. — Erwin Panofsky Copy Share Image
To Garan's credit, the treatment of Dellian prisoners did change after that. One particularly laconic man, after a session in which Fire… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
The proponents of Steinitz' theory - Tarrasch and his supporters - tried to express Steinitz' teaching in the form of laconic rules,… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
I love the English language just like I love all American things. But I confess that I don't feel confident using complex… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Fantasy fans are incredibly loyal and passionate. Other people don't want to be seen as passionate about things, they want to be… — John Bradley-West Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
On hearing the news [of being awarded a Nobel Prize], a friend who knows me only too well, sent me this laconic… — Max Perutz Copy Share Image
I think there is a kind of laconic Australian leg-pulling sense of humor that is certainly in some of my stories, or… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always "Is that so?" shows the good that comes through inner nonresistance… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Historians, only things of weight, Results of persons, or affairs of State, Briefly, with truth and clearness should relate; Laconic shortness memory… — James R. Heath Copy Share Image
The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even ungrammatical... The… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
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