Best 62 quotes in «brevity quotes» category

This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on.

We must be brief when traitors brave the field.

When I struggle to be terse, I end by being obscure.

...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.

You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.

A few sentences are enough to tell the truth.

A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.

Brevity Is Best: Nicknamed "Silent Cal," President Calvin Coolidge was once challenged by a reporter, saying, "I bet someone that I could get more than two words out of you." Coolidge responded, "You lose." The notion of crafting six word memoirs really took off after Smith Magazine shared this poignant one written by Ernest Hemingway: "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn." Pithiness Pays Off For Other Reasons: When required to be brief, for example, we gain clarity about what we really mean -- or have to offer. As Mark Twain once wrote, in a slower-paced time, "I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

Believe is brevity.

Brevity is the sister of talent.

Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.

Every moment of the day there should be someone shouting from the rooftops, "Life, enjoy it while you can.

Clarity of thought is a must for brevity in speech.

Fear is the thing that makes the heart grow.

If you are not brave, say you are, then be it.

From her character in the HBO miniseries: "The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

I know you're scared, but doing something even though it scares you is the definition of brave.

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter." (Letter 16, 1657)

It's not my accent, but my brevity makes me stylish.

L'Italia è una Repubblica fondata su 60 milioni di italiani presi quotidianamente per il culo.

Love is the brevity of life.

The brevity of life is the calmness of a courageous soul.

Lycurgus, who ordered that a great piece of money should be but of an inconsiderable value, on the contrary would allow no discourse to be current which did not contain in few words a great deal of useful and curious sense.

No sooner did we start than it all came to an end.

Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis. (Whatever advice you give, be brief.)

Screenwriting is made of brevity.

Some people talk too much without saying a lot.

The breath of life is the brevity to live.

The brevity of being is to your best life.

The brevity of life is walk in the path of light.

The definition of Brevity: That which people believe would be a virtue - in me!

The lesson here is not to take Camus to the beach.

The intensity of the pleasure derived from an orgasm is compensation for its brevity.

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.

The present life of man upon earth, O King, seems to me in comparison with that time which is unknown to us like the swift flight of a sparrow through the mead-hall where you sit at supper in winter, with your Ealdormen and thanes, while the fire blazes in the midst and the hall is warmed, but the wintry storms of rain or snow are raging abroad. The sparrow, flying in at one door and immediately out at another, whilst he is within, is safe from the wintry tempest, but after a short space of fair weather, he immediately vanishes out of your sight, passing from winter to winter again. So this life of man appears for a little while, but of what is to follow or what went before we know nothing at all.

This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don't understand very much about what they do -- not why it works when it's good, not why it doesn't when it's bad. I figured the shorter the book, the less bullshit." Stephen King, On Writing

The story of a life can be as long or as short as the teller wishes. Whether the life is tragic or enlightened, the classic gravestone inscription marking simply the dates of birth and death has, in its brevity, much to recommend it.

Verbosity wastes a portion of the reader’s or listener’s life.

To write good poems is the secret of brevity.

A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.

When someone blamed Hecataeus the sophist because that, being invited to the public table, he had not spoken one word all supper-time, Archidamidas answered in his vindication 'He who knows how to speak, knows also when'.

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.

Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.

Brevity - the sister of talent.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.