Brief Quotes

672 quotes by 541 authors

I'm not saying that women don't think about sex also. I'm saying that women are capable, for at least brief periods of time, of not… — Dave Barry
It must be those brief moments when nothing has happened - nor is going to. Tiny moments, like islands in the ocean beyond the grey… — Hans BÃ¸rli
If we lose our money while traveling, think how frantically we search for it! In the same way, if we are unable to do japa… — Mata Amritanandamayi
If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we may be certain… — Arthur C. Clarke
This brief century of ours is arguably the most significant one in the history of our universe. We'll have the technology either to self-destruct, or… — Max Tegmark
Brief life is here our portion. — John Mason Neale
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent. — Alfred Nobel
I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of… — John Henry Mackay
If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this freedom lies his… — Ruth Nanda Anshen
I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as… — Eben Alexander
To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points… — Fredrik Bajer
And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death. — William C. Bryant
Party Down' is the most fun I've ever had working in my life. We shoot 10-episode seasons and we shoot it in 10 weeks, so… — Lizzy Caplan
If you give people unlimited time and money, they'll do things the same old way. But if they have to achieve the goal in a… — Peter Diamandis
In his brief 21 years on this earth, Michael Smith Jr. touched countless lives. — Mike DeWine
I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy.… — Jennifer Ehle
Christ did not enchant men; He demanded that they believe in Him: except on one occasion, the Transfiguration. For a brief while, Peter, James, and… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I am a marathon worker and marathon mother. I'll spend three or four days completely swallowed up by work. And if I make it home… — Mika Brzezinski
I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny. — John Michael Higgins

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