Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Estrich

I spend a lot of time thinking about this business of letting go - letting go of the children God gives to us for such a brief time before they go off on their own; letting go of old homes, old friends, old places and old dreams.

Simon McBurney

Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way, it notates a mystery. That kind of mystery exists in relationships. A lifetime is not enough to know someone else. It provides a brief glimpse.

Baroness Orczy

...to hope for death by his side, and for one brief moment in which to tell him that her love-whole true and passionate- was entirely his.

You can imagine the workload we were dealing with, with all the offshore infrastructure and having to brief the president and the secretary of Interior.

There will likely be a brief (post-hurricane) spike as with Katrina. Hopefully it will not be prolonged.

The rose's prime lasts one brief hour of morn, That past, I find no rose - only a thorn

I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.

Robert Crumb

In my midteens I went through a brief stage of religious fanaticism, but it was very much about just saying prayers and stuff like that, reciting rosaries and spending a lot of time on that kind of Catholic ritual.

By no definition are the others out of the running. We'll go through the summer and a brief part of fall camp before naming a starter.

The night of the event, we brief all the security, all the police who are there, and the event staff who are working, and talk to them about what's going to happen, and what everybody's responsibilities are in the event that it does happen.

They gave us a brief synopsis of their interviews. They said they were going to go back and put their notes together,

There were some brief conversations with city officials, and we all dropped the ball.

It was some type of package that was described as looking like a small briefcase or a box.

This is the only model that actually works -- that seems to sustain improvements rather than having just the brief dip in crime.

Ken Hitchcock

I only saw it for a brief moment, but considering who it was it is not surprising.

This is just a very brief outline but there's some very positive improvements,

Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.

Nancy Kress

In fiction, a reaction shot is a brief portrayal of how your character reacts to something that someone else has done. In contrast to more direct character building, your guy doesn't initiate the sequence; he completes it. Exactly how he completes it can tell readers a lot about him.

Archie Shepp

In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort.

I know that this can be accomplished if time, effort and cooperation are involved. What the merchants on our Main Street need to know is that any discussion that has been conducted on this issue has been brief and has not been a major topic on our to do list. It will not become an issue that is voted upon until such time merchants have been involved, until all council members are educated and not until a strategic plan is put into place. This may take many months,

I'm looking for bearish sentiment to warrant a brief rally,

Peter Dinklage

I had to shave my head for another project, and there's a very brief moment in the film when it's a wig, ... If you don't know which part of the film is a wig, that means they did a very good job with the wig.

I just think this is a brief hiatus in what will be a good finish to the month and the quarter.

Kathryn Harrison

I remember seeing my father only twice as a child for brief visits. As I grew up, I invented a father who was larger than life - stronger, smarter, more handsome, and even holier than other men.

Anyway, I can brief you on China's position on Sudan.

Bob Goodlatte

The gulf coast region is very important to the nation's commerce and the effects of the recent hurricanes will be felt throughout the economy in the prices paid for food and fuel, ... In the brief time we met with producers, we heard some very compelling testimony.

The industry news remains dire and the brief outlook given here for 2007 is worse than we had hoped.

The difficulty for the government is how to slow investment and credit without checking overall growth. Over the past two years we have seen the government take measures that have sometimes been ineffective or that have had to be reversed after a brief period.

Billy Beane

This is a guy whose skill level and his presence in a lineup is undeniable. Even last year, if you look at the impact he had in the brief time he played, his skills are still there. Frank Thomas is a presence.

Roy Barnes

You can steal more with a briefcase than you can with a gun,

Trevor Hoffman

The underlying theme of all year is how well guys have responded with brief stints in the lineup. It's been a group of role players that have stepped up.

They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness.

Albert Einstein

How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.