{"quotes":[{"text":"Clarity of thought is a must for brevity in speech.","author":"Somali K Chakrabarti","tags":["brevity","brevity-of-words","communication","writing"],"id":11508,"author_id":"Somali+K+Chakrabarti"},{"text":"I've had orgasms lasting longer than our relationship.","author":"Ahmed Mostafa","tags":["brevity","fade-away","orgasm","orgasms","relationships","short-lived","temporary"],"id":17200,"author_id":"Ahmed+Mostafa"},{"text":"The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs  which are brief and pithy.","author":"William Penn","tags":["brevity"],"id":23698,"author_id":"William+Penn"},{"text":"Screenwriting is made of brevity.","author":"A.D. Posey","tags":["ad-posey","brevity","inspirational","screenwriting","storytellers","storytelling","write","writers","writing","writing"],"id":30062,"author_id":"A.D.+Posey"},{"text":"The fewer the words  the better prayer.","author":"Martin Luther","tags":["brevity"],"id":46554,"author_id":"Martin+Luther"},{"text":"To write good poems is the secret of brevity.","author":"Dejan Stojanovic","tags":["brevity","dejan-stojanovic","literature","literature","poems","poetry","poetry","quotes","to-live-by","secret","thoughts","wisdom","writing"],"id":64965,"author_id":"Dejan+Stojanovic"},{"text":"Brevity Is Best: Nicknamed 'Silent Cal,' President Calvin Coolidge was once challenged by a reporter, saying, 'I bet someone that I could get more than two words out of you.' Coolidge responded, 'You lose.' The notion of crafting six word memoirs really took off after Smith Magazine shared this poignant one written by Ernest Hemingway: 'For Sale: baby shoes, never worn.' Pithiness Pays Off For Other Reasons: When required to be brief, for example, we gain clarity about what we really mean -- or have to offer. As Mark Twain once wrote, in a slower-paced time, 'I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.","author":"Kare Anderson","tags":["brevity","fame","pithiness","stand-out"],"id":67644,"author_id":"Kare+Anderson"},{"text":"The present life of man upon earth, O King, seems to me in comparison with that time which is unknown to us like the swift flight of a sparrow through the mead-hall where you sit at supper in winter, with your Ealdormen and thanes, while the fire blazes in the midst and the hall is warmed, but the wintry storms of rain or snow are raging abroad. The sparrow, flying in at one door and immediately out at another, whilst he is within, is safe from the wintry tempest, but after a short space of fair weather, he immediately vanishes out of your sight, passing from winter to winter again. So this life of man appears for a little while, but of what is to follow or what went before we know nothing at all.","author":"Bede","tags":["afterlife","agnosticism","brevity","happiness","life","religion"],"id":70285,"author_id":"Bede"},{"text":"Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.","author":"Marcus Tullius Cicero","tags":["charm","brevity","eloquence "],"id":71927,"author_id":"Marcus+Tullius+Cicero"},{"text":"Brevity is the soul of wit.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["brevity","wit"],"id":87302,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":34,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}