Short Concise Quotes

#1. The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.

Marshall McLuhan

#2. Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen of Tacitus, who was always concise, because he saw everything at a glance.

Tacitus

#3. Defensive and offensive lineman control the game and true sports fans know that.

Dante Hall

#4. Good and evil keep very exact accounts ... and the face of every man is their ledger.

James Branch Cabell

#5. If you don't write when you don't have time for it, you won't write when you do have time for it.

Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#6. People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away ?" I look away from her. "It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning.

Jodi Picoult

#7. We cannot change the politics issue until we change the culture around it; until we talk about what parents do for their kids as an act of love. That's a cultural conversation.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#8. I'm not fighting. I just telling you what's right.

Tatjana Maria

#9. Sierra, it's Christmastime. Put a stupid mistletoe over his head and kiss him already!

Jay Asher

#10. I failed her. And she's out of my life. I don't even know where she's living. What she's doing to get through the days. And I miss her. Every single day, I miss her.

Val McDermid

#11. Crude at first [the short story] received a literary polish in the press, but its dominant quality remained. It was concise and condense, yet suggestive. It was delightfully extravagant - or a miracle of understatement

Bret Harte

#12. Finally, he rested his cheek on the top of my head and whispered, We don't have time to be sad.

Maggie Stiefvater