Pithy Quotes
21 quotes by 21 authors
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Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into…
— Diablo Cody
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Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy,…
— Bergen Evans
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A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Quinn Cummings is a master story-teller and her book is nothing short of delightful. Her insights into topics like celebrity, parenting, and cats with a…
— Jen Lancaster
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Booker T. Jones sounds more pithy and forceful than ever on “Potato Holeâ€â€¦Mr. Jones still jabs terse, unhurried melodies that sound as if he knows…
— Jon Pareles
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We took a bus to the nearby monastery of one of the last great Tang dynasty Chan masters, Yun-men. Yun-men was known for his pithy…
— Stephen Batchelor
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The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human…
— William Penn
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
— Denis Diderot
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Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.
— Jack Kerouac
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The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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I stared up at the Erlking, and with my typical pithy brilliance said, "Uh-oh.
— Jim Butcher
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Unrequited love," I'd say. He'd look at me sideways in that cunning way he did and say, "what about it?" and I'd reply, "it's not…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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We communicated with pithy, rather monosyllabic thoughts: viz. Run, Jump, Where? Left, Up, Duck, ect. (This latter was an observation I made on the edge…
— Jonathan Stroud
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Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.
— Isaac Asimov
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What's really important here," I whispered loudly to myself,"is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things you, yourself have
— Haruki Murakami
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Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy…
— Edward Carpenter
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What? Nothing to say? No pithy wisdom? No lofty moral judgments?
— KE-PA
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This piece was cogent, well-wrtetin, and pithy.
— Sewana
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Very valid, pithy, succicnt, and on point. WD.
— Kaedon
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Very valid, pithy, sucicnct, and on point. WD.
— Romby
Who Wrote These Pithy Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 21 Pithy Quotes as follows: