Short Quotes

If you wear short skirts you get your femininity back.

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.

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.

Life is short. You can't afford to put off what God has put in your heart. You don't have time to live with things holding you back.

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Alternate between short films, long form films, with or without stars, small budget or big budget films. Basically a filmmaker needs to be flexible.

I don’t think I would ever want to be a writer of detective stories - but I would like to be a detective and there is a large deal of detection in the short story.

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.

What the short story needs above all is for one of the big publishers to get an equivalent series up and running and to support it and promote it.

I never know exactly where I'm going with a story, whether it's a short story or a novel. If I did I'd soon grow bored of it. The fun, for me, is in the finding out and the making sense of it.

Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it.

Whatever your secret, live your own truth; life is too short.

Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.

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

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.

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.

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.

Life is short. You die before you think you're going to. Don't waste it in college unless you're doing something real. My view.

Love forbids you not to love.

Dreams take short cuts.

Experience has shown us that virtue puts down only shallow roots in those who are there for just a short time

Life is short...eat desert first!

The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.

When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it's just for that short time you're on the phone.

Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

I watch people sometimes, wonder how they can walk around with the weight of what they know.

Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess.

But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.

Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.

So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

I eat healthy and don't go by a diet chart. The breakfast is usually heavy, complemented with short frequent meals. My dinner is high on proteins and low on carbohydrates.

I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition.

I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn't actually have that many scenes.

All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.

I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.