It was a long time since he'd done any actual clinical work, and obviously his sojourn among the academics at Saro University had attenuated the prof… - Isaac Asimov

Hasta la oratoria fue suprimida (y a todos los griegos les ha gustado hablar, desde la Antigüedad hasta el presente) pues los espartanos solían hablar muy breve y sucintamente. La misma palabra "lacónico" (de Laconia) ha llegado a significar la cualidad de hablar de manera concisa.

The senior lieutenant of the Dark Nebula stared in horror at the visiplate. "Great Galloping Galaxies!" It should have been a howl, but it was a whisper instead. "What's that?" It was a ship, but a whale to the Dark Nebula's minnow; and on its side was the Spaceship-and-Sun of the Empire. Every alarm on the ship yammered hysterically. The orders went out, and the Dark Nebula prepared to run if it could, and fight if it must, — while down in the hyperwave room, a message stormed its way through hyperspace to the Foundation. Over and over again! Partly a plea for help, but mainly a warning of danger.

you can't just move backward. You can't push the chicken back into the egg, wine back into the grape, the boy back into the womb. If you want the baby to let go of your watch, you don't just try to explain that he ought to do it — you offer him something he would rather have.