#brief

In his brief 21 years on this earth, Michael Smith Jr. touched countless lives. ↗

— Mike DeWine

#countless #earth #his #jr #lives

Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge. ↗

— Tom Jenkinson

#completely #dangerously #edge #felt #life

The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day and age it is tenable to have these nods and winks, and on-the-record and off-the-record briefings. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

#better #briefings #day #get #i

My show is a sensory assault... in a very brief manner - the show is only 25 minutes long. ↗

— Kesha

#brief #long #manner #minutes #only

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#brief #certain #feeling #give #nothing

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired. ↗

— George Santayana

#being #brief #condition #inspired

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. ↗

— George Santayana

#brief #could #created #fear #first

Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them. ↗

— George Saunders

#believe #briefly #center #delusion #else

That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief. ↗

— George Saunders

#definition #discovered #hasn #me #novel

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#brief #buildings #cannot #close #during