What Are Pithy Quotes

#1. Clarke, define resplendent. I think it's shining, sir. Pithy, Clarke, but adequate. McCourt, give us a sentence with pithy. Clarke is pithy but adequate, sir. Adroit, McCourt. You have a mind for the priesthood, my boy, or politics. Think of that.

Frank McCourt

#2. Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living; now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!

Diablo Cody

#3. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.

Jack Kerouac

#4. He who cannot swim should neither chase the dolphins nor play with sharks. For him disaster awaits like sunrise.

J. Loren Norris

#5. The best kind of praise is intelligent praise.

Rachel Heffington

#6. If only there was enough space on this tiny card to evoke my unfettered joie de vivre for what you have done. The gaiety, the mirth, the heavenly bubbling of every effusive cell that sings inside me for your kind and pithy offering.

Joshua Braff

#7. I'd always imagined that I'd come up with something clever and pithy when it came to my last words, but as I stood there staring at those horrifying green eyes, I settled for a little startled profanity.

How embarrassing.

Kate SeRine

#8. Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written.

Edward Carpenter

#9. Princess Nell had to reconstruct them, learning the language, which was extremely pithy and made heavy use of parentheses.

Neal Stephenson

#10. Exactly. The most convincing argument doesn't come from pithy sayings or aphorisms, but through stories. A clear line of causality, from one event to the next, that seems to be leading to an inevitable conclusion." "We are fighting our guerrilla war battle by battle.

Edward W. Robertson

#11. Life should be like a good Tweet - short, pithy, convey a message and inspire others to follow.

Ashok Kallarakkal

#12. Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill.

Bergen Evans

#13. 'American Music' is an inventive, passionate, pithy novel whose major theme is love itself and whose minor theme, music, is an emotional, meaningful counterpoint. Like Count Basie and His Orchestra, this book swings.

Kate Christensen

#14. Grievance into a succinct and pithy phrase, while mobilizing the people to combat it. Our slogan

Nelson Mandela

#15. Are you good at keeping secrets, Merry?" "I'm better than some." I pause, then add, "More often than not, they keep me," only because it sounds simultaneously mysterious and pithy.

Paul Tremblay