#brief

Delirium: "What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to make love to somebody you really liked a long time ago?" Dream: "There isn't one." Delirium: "Oh. I thought maybe there was." Delirium and Dream, in Sandman #43: "Brief Lives: 3 ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#gaiman #love #poignant #sandman #dreams

The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#american people #briefly #budget #common #common sense

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

— Robert Southey

#burn #condensed #deeper #more #pungent

As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains. ↗

— Patrick White

#asthmatic #blue #brief #country #house

In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#democracy #models #other #political #regions

'Party Down' is the most fun I've ever had working in my life. We shoot 10-episode seasons and we shoot it in 10 weeks, so it's very brief: 4-day episode shoots. You never get sick of anybody, and it never feels like a drag. It's way, way, way too short. ↗

— Lizzy Caplan

#brief #down #drag #episode #ever

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

#act #box #brief #brief moment #camera

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible. ↗

— Jimmy Connors

#brief #challenge #failure #get #inactivity

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

#burn #condensed #deeper #more #pungent

A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me. ↗

— Sanjay Dutt

#director #enough #expected #good #good script