Brevity Quotes
Brevity Quote of the day
This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number 2.718281828459... by the letter e.
...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.
Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life
This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
As touching the gods, I do not know whether they exist or not, nor how they are featured; for there is much to prevent our knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life.
True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself.
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[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.
The land is not old. It only changes, becoming one thing and the next. We are the ones who ascribe age, the brevity of our lives demanding a beginning, middle and end.
For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn't have to say.
it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.
I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.
Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit....They have to fit in context.
Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.
Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?
Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.
The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.
It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.
Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through
I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.
A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.
The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.
The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.
Breath and brevity are sisters; the long-winded is an enemy who muffles your heartbeat.