Top Brief Quotes

  • Majid gave me a brief dazzling golden stare and then half-lidded his eyes again. I know when my life is being threatened. – Robin McKinley

    Majid gave me a brief dazzling golden stare and then half-lidded his eyes again. I know when my life is being threatened.– Robin McKinley

  • In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental health, though where’s his basis for comparing? – Thomas Pynchon

    In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental health, though where’s his basis for comparing?– Thomas Pynchon

  • Human moments are brief, value them when they happen. – Steven Cuoco

    Human moments are brief, value them when they happen.– Steven Cuoco

  • Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn gr???, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life? – Mo Yan

    Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn gr???, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?– Mo Yan

  • A novel is just a story that hasn’t yet discovered a way to be brief. – George Saunders

    A novel is just a story that hasn’t yet discovered a way to be brief.– George Saunders

  • Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought. – Leonard Michaels

    Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought.– Leonard Michaels

  • The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (…) beautiful. – Gary Shteyngart

    The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (…) beautiful.– Gary Shteyngart

  • The brief silence that follows is as tender as arainstorm of daisies. – Mathias Malzieu

    The brief silence that follows is as tender as arainstorm of daisies.– Mathias Malzieu

  • There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling. – Erich Segal

    There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.– Erich Segal

  • Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat.(Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands.) – Horace

    Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat.(Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands.)– Horace