Brief Quotes

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No, Queer Eye has a book coming out before mine, in the Spring of 2004, in which each of us has a section and we… — Ted Allen
I have barely time to give you a brief statement of facts as I find them. — John White Geary
They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a… — Stephen Phillips
The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief… — George Combe
As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my… — Patrick White
This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment. — Katherine Mansfield
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. — Edgar Allan Poe
I strive to be brief but I become obscure. — Horace
Here we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking me if there are pictures of me in my drawers. — Anthony Weiner
Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really… — Joni Eareckson Tada
Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is stretching for effect… — Roger Rosenblatt
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its… — George Bernard Shaw
A brief candle,both ends burning An endless mile, a bus wheel turning A friend to share the lonesome times A handshake and a sip of… — Charlie Daniels
Life is too brief. I had a friend whom I intended to know better. Yesterday he died. — David Grayson
The pleasure of the act of love is gross and brief and brings loathing after it — Petronius
Anger is a brief madness. — Horace
Man, proud man, dressed in a little brief authority, like an angry ape, play such fantastic tricks before high heaven as make the angels weep — William Shakespeare
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades… — Richard Dawkins
TROGLODYTE, n. Specifically, a cave-dweller of the paleolithic period, after the Tree and before the Flat. A famous community of troglodytes dwelt with David in… — Ambrose Bierce
How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he… — Albert Einstein

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