Laconisme Quotes & Sayings

The American people don't really care what side of an issue you're on. They just don't want you to act like a pussy. — Bill Maher

When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past. — Christopher Ricks

There is a great responsibility on the team to perform well, because our supporters and the whole of the country are expecting us to do just that. — Andriy Shevchenko

I've found my productive-writing-to-screwing-around ratio to be one to seven. So, for every eight hour day of writing, there is only one good productive hour of work being done. The other seven hours are preparing for writing: pacing around the house, collapsing cardboard bxes for recycling, reading the DVD extras pamphlet from BBC Pride & Prejudice, getting snacks lined up for writing, and YouTubing toddlers who learned the 'Single Ladies' dance. I know. Isn't that horrible? So, basically, writing this piece took me the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas. — Mindy Kaling

Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create. — Vanna Bonta

Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with ... Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I've always had a more spatial mind, mathematical, than literal. — Portia Doubleday

In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with himself, but he must not attempt to do too much with others. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt