Laconic Quotes

13 quotes by 13 authors

On hearing the news [of being awarded a Nobel Prize], a friend who knows me only too well, sent me this laconic message: 'Blood, toil,… — Max Perutz
Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by… — Julia Gillard
The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur. — Erwin Panofsky
I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number. — Renata Adler
As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves from one another… — Benjamin Cardozo
The proponents of Steinitz' theory - Tarrasch and his supporters - tried to express Steinitz' teaching in the form of laconic rules, and as often… — Alexander Kotov
The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even ungrammatical... The books are not… — Morris Kline
Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet." — John Allen Paulos
I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice… — Terry Pratchett
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
To Garan's credit, the treatment of Dellian prisoners did change after that. One particularly laconic man, after a session in which Fire learned positively nothing,… — Kristin Cashore
You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that so?"… — Ian Fleming
The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always "Is that so?" shows the good that comes through inner nonresistance to events, that… — Eckhart Tolle

Who Wrote These Laconic Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 13 Laconic Quotes as follows: