Photography Quote by Emylia Hall

“People who can speak well, speak briefly.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

— Anonymous

Speak briefly and to the point.

— Cato the Younger

To be in love, however briefly . . . is to be truly, wonderfully alive. Never to have loved, is to leave the map…

— Ritu Ghatourey

Unfortunately, I never knew my father and when I did, it was very briefly.

— Francis Capra

“My dad was a trawlerman, but only briefly – only briefly a trawlerman and only briefly my dad." (2nd para of 'Missio')”

— Tim Roux

“There is perhaps only one thing to say to this infant, who is all future, overlapping briefly with me, whose life, barring the improbable,…

— Paul Kalanithi

“He will hold her and wonder, very briefly, about the future that loving her will cost him.”

— Nicola Yoon

“From the beginning, then, but briefly.”

— Claire Messud

The first time I met Serena, I did a commercial when I was 10 and met her briefly.

— Coco Gauff

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

— Epictetus

I have done one or two plays in New York briefly.

— Jim Sarbh