153 Brief Quotes for You to Enjoy

When I was at high school, I thought it'd be nice to go into Air Force Academy and fly jets, but that was a very brief dream. Ha, ha. I'm too lanky to fit in the cockpit. Emily Robison

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Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation. Floyd Skloot

Life Marked Slim Output Observation Piercing Powers Nonetheless Were Brief

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Great Change Progress Space Favor Embodiment Finds Some General Purpose Him Because Human Moment Brief Brief Moment Satisfactory

Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest. George Combe

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired. George Santayana

Inspired Almost Condition Being Brief

That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief. George Saunders

Me Way Definition Seems Discovered Story Novel Brief

It's a funny thing about cities: Some have brief, bright moments of cultural and political dominance, decades- or centuries-long spells when they seem the center of their particular nation, or region, or empire... only to later fall into obscurity and disrepair, never to regain their former glory. Hanya Yanagihara

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The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. Henri Cartier-Bresson

I strive to be brief but I become obscure. Horace

Become Strive Obscure Brief

Never be so brief as to become obscure. Hosea Ballou

Become Obscure Never Brief

A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order. Ian Hacking

Most cocktails containing liquor are made today with gin and ingenuity. In brief, take an ample supply of the former and use your imagination. For the benefit of a minority, it is courteous to serve chilled fruit juice in addition to cocktails made with liquor. Irma S. Rombauer

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I did get a letter from the speaker of the House urging - enjoining me not to brief Secretary Clinton, and lots of cards and letters from people about not briefing Mr. Trump. James Clapper

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We were surrounded by influences and interests that came between Stephen and me. The nurse who became his wife was seeking to undermine me, and there were wider influences, too, following the runaway success of 'A Brief History of Time.' Jane Hawking

I find I like the spotlight for a very brief period of time... and I sort of need it. But then, the minute that it's done, I have to sort of go hide. So I was never really meant, I think, to be a performer for a living. Jason Robert Brown

In its brief 14-episode run, 'Firefly' gave viewers as much chance of witnessing a horseback chase or train robbery as a laser gun and spacefight in any given episode. Snappy one-liners and silly hats were a constant, of course. Jay Kristoff

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. Jean Rostand

Feeling Nothing Ability Give Remains Said Sentences Certain Brief

If investors avoid the Treasury market, we could be unable to pay off maturing securities, which would mean an immediate default. Market participants generally agree that even a brief default would create potentially catastrophic risks to the financial system, like the meltdown of 2008. Jerome Powell

Risks Financial Pay Market Immediate Meltdown System Unable Financial System Securities Would Potentially Could Generally Catastrophic Investors Participants Like Off Maturing Which Mean Create Avoid Agree Even Brief Default Treasury

I would not want to do one-episode television - that's just a brief encounter with your audience. The arc takes the actor into an arena where he can really stretch. Jerry Lewis

Television Would Arc Arena He Takes Audience Encounter Just Where Want Really Your Brief Actor Stretch

It is often pointed out to me that, in a brief time, I have gone from unknown film editor to star of 'Gomer Pyle,' guest star in two TV specials, and a night club headliner, and that this must necessarily have wrought some deep changes in me. Jim Nabors

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism. John Buchanan Robinson

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If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. John Dryden

You Words Pungent More Condensed Burn Brief Deeper

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