#brief

Be sincere; be brief; be seated. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#seated #sincere

Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings. ↗

— Sparky Anderson

#carrying #earrings #like #me #wearing

So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship. ↗

— Donna Rice

#agreed #brief #confront #ending #face-to-face

I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot. ↗

— Andy Richter

#briefly #considered #doing #edgar #i

I hated my brief fame. We had TV vans camped outside my house, reporters hounded me... people i'd know for years started treating me differently. ↗

— Malcolm Wilson

#camped #differently #fame #had #hated

I have barely time to give you a brief statement of facts as I find them. ↗

— John White Geary

#brief #facts #find #give #i

Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it? ↗

— Stephen King

#brief #dreams #sweet #dreams

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#briefly #defined #faith #illogical #improbable

We know that Rangi can at least mutter because Digger Gibson says he used to talk to the bear. In his group home for orphaned Moa boys, Rangi had a pet cinnamon bear. I saw her once. She was just a wet-nosed cub, a cuff of pure white around her neck. Rangi found her on the banks of the Waitiki River and walked her around on a leash. He filed her claws and fed her tiny, smelly fishes. They shot her the day his new father, Digger, came to pick him up. "Burying that bear," I overheard Digger tell Mr. Oamaru once. "The first thing we ever did together as father and son." Rangi's given us this global silent treatment ever since, a silence he extends to people, animals, ice. ↗

— Karen Russell

#karen-russell #occurrence- #home

There's something pitiable and terrifying about the unconscious bully. His crumpled nose and hat. ... This is the first true thing that Brauser and I have ever shared, this fear, besides dog-eared songbooks and cafeteria noodles. I wonder, briefly, if I could eat Brauser if it came to that. At this point, we have been alone on the glacier for fourteen minutes. ↗

— Karen Russell

#karen-russell #occurrence- #home