#brief

Even at this altitude, the substitute pilot's bathed in sweat, sweat running down his chin and neck. Fear must be the fountain of youth, because the substitute pilot now looks younger than any of us, doughy and flushed with horror. ↗

— Karen Russell

#karen-russell #occurrence- #home

That was fun to play. There were some nice special effects coupled with some really nice moments with child and wife. I also was able to age to about 100 years in 'Brief Candle.' ↗

— Richard Dean Anderson

#able #about #age #also #brief

In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility. ↗

— J. L. Austin

#admit #any #bad #briefly #defence

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#brief #dozen #fifty #half #indeed

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#his #important #important things #man #money

Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again. ↗

— Robert Brault

#back #briefly #find #late #looking

Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant. ↗

— Caecilius Statius

#delay #everything #grant #impulse #servant

The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the attention was as completely sustained as during the first. ↗

— George Combe

#admission #air #allowed #attention #brief

I was briefly bitter. ↗

— Margot Kidder

#briefly #i

I have not been briefed. ↗

— Gray Davis

#briefed #i