Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.
Harlan Ellison
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.
George Shaw
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief ...
Richard Dawkins
Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Why should I indulge myself and do a David Lean-ish kind of film? I could do my little Jewish Brief Encounter (1945) and disguise it - shorten the noses. But it wouldn`t be as much fun as delivering my dish of insanity.
Mel Brooks
[on Walter Wanger] Walter Wanger was a man who always wanted to be European. He didn`t know how to be European but he wanted to be European so "The Reckless Moment" was rather the kind of film -- I suppose, like "Brief Encounter" -- that he was trying to ...
James Mason
To me, naturalism is the death of drama. Lee Strasberg came along and the Method f***ed everything up. I find people like Celia Johnson are my favorite actors. I was brought up on films like Brief Encounter, and for me they expressed enormous truth. Marlo...
Joe Wright
(on his brief experience as a stand-up comedian) I did ten gigs at the very beginning. Five were amazing, and five were the worst moments of my life.
Nick Frost
[Valentino was] what is commonly called for want of a better name, a gentleman. In brief, Valentino`s agony was the agony of a man of relatively civilized feelings thrown into a situation of intolerable vulgarity. - H.L. Mencken
Rudolph Valentino
With approval from the Scoutmaster, and the right advance planning, patrols of boys in their young teens and up should be able to make brief outings on their own.
Anthony McCray
When you become part of something, in some way you count. It could be a march; it could be a rally, even a brief one. You`re part of something, and you suddenly realize you count. To count is very important.
Studs Terkel
We only had a brief time to talk, ... He accepts responsibility for what he did, and is terribly, terribly sorry for what he did. In addition to Casey being hurt, now his parents are being punished for what he did.
James Burke
We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.
John McCarthy
We can get back to some type of normalcy we`re used to here and get a Saturday night in Tiger Stadium where we can turn our guys loose and turn the fans loose and for a brief time, three, four, maybe six hours, people can forget some serious, serious prob...
Barbara Ellis
We also asked the congregation to write family bios and a brief message to the future congregation of 2105. Also included is a gift to that congregation, an engraved Wedgwood crystal bowl.
Nicole Brown
was a master of a number of theatrical dialects, but his work was always characterized by a profoundly humane spirit. Derek believed that the theater could really matter. In a brief but extraordinary career, he demonstrated just that.
Antoine Winfield
This is an inappropriate effort by these organizations to improperly inject themselves into a lawsuit to which they are not parties, ... We will be responding in detail to this brief in a future filing.
Philip Morris
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
William Osler
There is a brief moment when all there is in a man`s mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record.
Andrew Steer
This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment
Katherine Mansfield
