Crisply Brief Quotes

#1. We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief ... In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#2. I was the one that put myself in rehab. I was the one that went to my parents and said, you know, 'I have a problem and I need to take care of it.'

Nicole Richie

#3. O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#4. I don't think of myself as "a lesbian musician." It's not one and alone. I think of myself as a musician.

Michelle Chamuel

#5. It didn't matter where, really. What mattered was the connection, the space formed between the two of the, a slice cut from the universe and made private and inviolable.

Scott Westerfeld

#6. It was always fun in the early days of Black Sabbath, when I stayed away from heavy drugs. Then someone gave me cocaine and I went, "Hallelujah!" I thought I'd found the meaning of life!

Ozzy Osbourne

#7. The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.

Leo Tolstoy

#8. I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#9. Our society, our culture - the greatness of America - goes hand-in-hand with energy, and our leaders need to wake up. We need energy, OK?

Rick Santelli

#10. If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.

John Kruk

#11. The time to stop is when the other guy hits you more than you hit him.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#12. The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.

Michelangelo

#13. Bricks could be used as words in the saying of a mason. When words and actions match up, you have a structure people could live in. It's a lot to live up to, and a lot to live in.

Jarod Kintz