Short Quotes

I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was 'Life is short; eat dessert first.' How can I argue with that?

Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.

I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.

There are no short cuts to Heaven, only the ordinary way of ordinary things.

I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am.

The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

Life is too short and too precious to waste it living out someone else’s values. We must find our own.

You gotta just laugh at yourself and let it go and not take things too seriously because life is too short.

My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.

Women with short hair are really sexy. There's something liberating about freeing yourself from the norms.

...by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain me like sweet water on the periodically barren plain of our short lives.

Each life is one short word slowly uttered.

(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance.

Life is short and the nights are long, and tonight I moved on.

Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at some point we face catastrophe

Life is short. You better get out there and do what you want to do while you can.

Life is too sweet and too short to express our affection with just our thumbs. Touch is meant for more than a keyboard.

Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections

If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.

I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

You need a fantastic memory in this game to remember the great shots and a very short memory to forget the bad ones.

To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.

Set stretch goals. Don't ever settle for mediocrity. The key to stretch is to reach for more than you think is possible. Don't sell yourself short by thinking that you'll fail.

Life's too short for anxious score-keeping

If you wear short skirts you get your femininity back.

I have excessive energy, tremendous energy. I have a sense of people. I can feel them, pretty much so, in a short time. I'm not afraid of death. I'm just not afraid of anything.

You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood

The trouble with records is that they're too short.

"On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's Oath.

[Kids] are just like annoying short people

Life is short and we have scarcely begun to live when we are called to die.

Life is way too short for boring cars.

We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.

My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. You can't write a throw-away scene.

If you're not having fun - I don't care what you're doing - don't do it. Move on. Find something else, life's too short.

The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration."

I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies.

Consultancy can be too short; or too long.

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.

I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?

Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

It doesn't bother me at all. Do I hold any hard feelings? Not at all, ... Life is too short to sit around and hold grudges. I don't hold any whatsoever.

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization.

If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic. They're much more like vacations, more exciting and different, and you're off.

We won with the military. We won with highly educated, pretty well educated and poorly educated. But we won with everything, tall people, short people, fat people, skinny people just won.

Regaining favor with your worst enemy is a satisfactory but short lived relief.