Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sophocles

Much wisdom often goes with brevity of speech.

Patricia Marx

One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is very important. If you're going to be longwinded, it should be for a purpose. Not just because you like your words.

William Shakespeare

Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief

Jean Bruyere

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity

William Shakespeare

Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.

Richard P. Feynman

I decided to sell my drawings. However, I didn't want people to buy my drawings because the professor of physics isn't supposed to be able to draw - isn't that wonderful - so I made up a false name.

Manolo Blahnik

I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes.

J. Horton

We're not buying some report that's going to go on the shelf and never be seen again. This is a research and marketing tool we can start using immediately once we get it.

Jill Nelson

We're not buying outright like Plato's. We're doing a 60/40 split.

Carolyn McCarthy

make it easier for criminals to buy guns at gun shows.

Tom Henderson

Make sure you go to a trusted source to buy your parts. If someone is selling you oil filters out of the back of a truck, they probably aren't the real thing.

Scott Holmes

Making habitat restoration part of public works projects is cheaper than eliminating the species and buying mitigation habitat at another location. With the San Pedro Project, for example, habitat restoration cost $3 million, but it would have cost $5-6 million (twice as much) to destroy the habitat and try to recreate it elsewhere.

John Savage

Let the guy do his thing. It's a unique event that should be encouraged even if you don't buy into the whole program. The guy's been doing it for 30 years around the world, and every place has survived.

Hugh Thomas

Licensing our WiFi product to Symbian was an important milestone for us. It provides a real endorsement that our technology is the de-facto standard for the future. From a commercial perspective it positions us well to deal with the handset manufactures, as they will know that they are protected for the future if they buy from us today.

Craig Faire

Mackenzie made Russell work extra hard for every shot.

Jason Bohn

Making that last putt gave me an extra hour of sleep tomorrow.

Peter Harding

Last year we had extra officers on the island, but these things escalate very, very quickly.

Kevin McCormick

Sebring is one of our bread-and-butter sedans in terms of providing good, solid transportation at a good price. The incentives put a little extra value on it." ()

Brendan Barber

Millions are still putting in up to an extra day a week for free.

Gareth Thomas

Of course, there is extra pressure. If we are truthful, I think all the press and everyone else would like us to go there and lose because that is what they want.

Ted Hughes

Maybe making an extra mortgage payment -- that's a great idea.

Joe Young

Fremont is a big turnaround story for us. We are investing in extra volume and increasing capacity.

Peter Beattie

The plan is to extract 7.5 million metric tons of bauxite every year in order to produce 2.1 million tons of alumina each year from the refinery.

Joe Cheshire

Let's look at some facts. You know, false accusations are made by people all the time for all different types of reasons.

Theodore Steinberg

Levees are a double-edged sword; they give people a false sense of security.

Sathya Baba

Love knows no fear and so love needs no falsehood to support it.

Jerry Parker

My feelings are still that I don't want to give the public a false sense of security by us passing the matrix.

Steve Stanley

No one should have any false hope that the trade gap is going to narrow much or for very long, but at least the speed of the underlying deterioration is less than we thought.

Benjamin Franklin

Money & Man a mutual Friendship show: Man makes false Money, Money makes Man so.

Dawn Powell

Now we have only the escapists, who write of happenings a hundred or three hundred years ago, false to history, false to human nature.

Carlos Rodriguez

I did not come here to give you false hopes, ... But Ill tell you this: Were going to rebuilt St. Bernard.

Jim Keyes

If we have one false positive a month, it gives us concern. So 13 is out of the ordinary. That's outrageously high.

Wayne Smith

Seats and papers have come to the surface.

Rick Santorum

One piece of paper ... doesn't tell me a whole lot,

Martin Straka

I can't say it in the paper what I told him.

Dirk Benedict

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

Anthony Pratt

When we sell paper in Asia, we sell them things such as their corrugator rolls as well as paper.

Brian Harper

On paper we have it all ? speed, power, defense, solid pitching. We should have a pretty solid team.

Lleyton Hewitt

On paper it should have been the final,

Sarah Silverman

I'm always writing; I'm always jotting things down on paper or making notes in my iPhone. Then I'll make myself sit down and kind of shape it up, but there's really no other way to practice other than onstage.

Maria Fernandez

She starts by making her own paper from pulp.

David Sedaris

Neighbors would pass, and when they honked I'd remember that I was in my Speedo. Then I'd wrap my towel like a skirt around my waist and remind my sisters that this was not girlish but Egyptian, thank you very much.

Nicholas Sparks

That's good. And speaking of spelling, tell me -- do you wrap your head in a towel after you shower?

Kenny Rogers

It's not all wet towels and naked women. I was so disappointed to learn that.

Emily Giffin

He threw in the towel before we were tested. Maybe because he didn't want to be tested. Maybe because he assumed we would fail. Maybe because, at the time, he just didn't love me enough.

Joel Osteen

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don't know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

Nathaniel Philbrick

I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a Terrible Towel.