brevity

Screenwriting is made of brevity.

The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.

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

Life is too short to waste being a productive member of society.

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

I'd like to get away from earth awhileAnd then come back to it and begin over.May no fate wilfully misunderstand meAnd half grant what I wish and snatch me awayNot to return. Earth's the right place for love:I don't know where it's likely to go better.

My liege, and madam, to expostulateWhat majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time,Were nothing but to waste night, day and time.Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,I will be brief.

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

Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?

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

When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each other. This feeling should make men and women use their best efforts to help their fellow travelers on the road, to make the path brighter and easier as we journey on. It should bring a closer kinship, a better understanding, and a deeper sympathy for the wayfarers who must live a common life and die a common death.

Fear is the thing that makes the heart grow.

I've had orgasms lasting longer than our relationship.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

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.

To write good poems is the secret of brevity.

Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.

The fewer the words the better prayer.