Laconism Quotes

#1. As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room

Jeremy Collier

#2. One night (I was eleven years old at the time) he came and shook me from my sleep and announced, with the same grumbling laconism that he would have employed to predict a good harvest to his tenants, that I should rule the world.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#3. If only we could return to those ages when no utterance shackled existence, to the laconism of interjections, to the joyous stupor of the pre- verbal!

Emil M. Cioran

#4. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made -Psalm 139:14

David

#5. All our salvation consists in the manifestation of the nature, life and spirit of Jesus Christ in our inward new man. This alone is Christian redemption, this alone delivers from the guilt and power of sin, this alone redeems and renews.

William Law

#6. I'm not a photojournalist.

Robert Mapplethorpe

#7. Not everything about where you're headed ... has to be about where you've been.

Kimberly McCreight

#8. My parents wanted their daughters to reach their full potential. I joke that they said, 'We left our homeland so you could pursue your dreams - as long as you're a lawyer, a doctor, or an engineer.'

Dina Powell

#9. The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

Kingman Brewster Jr.

#10. When I was younger, I was actually looking forward to getting older, to have more insight, more understanding.

Cate Blanchett

#11. For moral reasons ... the world appears to me to be put together in such a painful way that I prefer to believe that it was not created ... intentionally.

Stanislaw Lem

#12. The mediocre have no importance except through appointment. They feel invaded and defeated by the presence of creative folk among them.

Zora Neale Hurston

#13. I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.

John Malkovich

#14. Well honey, You know that I don't like goodbyes. What I am trying to whisper you right now, it sounds like GOODBYE but it tastes like WELCOME to our rendezvous

Camelia C.

#15. I just want a friend who "gets" me and then wants to keep me - flaws and all.

Toni Sorenson