Mortality is very brief but immeasurably important.

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

Memorable occasions should be brief, and so should be the expressions of appreciation.

- Simon Kuznets

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

- Omar Bongo

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

- Mordecai Richler

Live performance really terrifies me. I haven't done it, really, in years. I think that's why I retired from my brief career in stand-up.

- Mindy Kaling

Every photo you take communicates something about a moment in time - a brief slice of time of where you were, who you were with, and what you were doing.

- Kevin Systrom

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

- Kesha

I have barely time to give you a brief statement of facts as I find them.

- John White Geary

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

- Jean Rostand

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

- Baltasar Gracian

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

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

- Hosea Ballou

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

- Horace

I strive to be brief but I become obscure.

- Horace

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

- Gene Fowler

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

- George Saunders

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it.

- Chris O'Dowd