Short Quotes

Long weekends at festivals, short weeks at home, all summer long: now that is surely preferable to the immense cost and headache of the nuclear family holiday in the sun?

Personally, I'm an advocate for short engagements. Long sometimes means there is a reason for it. Two years engaged and no wedding... I'd be upset.

Life is too short because we die.

Life's too short. We have to love each other.

The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again

Life's too short not to enjoy what you're working on.

Life's too short to spend with important people.

Life's too short to be sat at home writing all the time.

Life's too short to spend all the time in the gym. I just like to have a few beers and enjoy myself too.

Life's too short not to have fun with what you wear.

And anyway, life's too short.

Ah, well. Life's too short for moderation, wouldn't you say?

Life's too short so we should enjoy it without forget our limits.

Life too short to spend alone.

Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter.

Life's too short not to tell the people you love how you feel. Say it... and say it often. Oh, and start with God.

Life's too short not to laugh about yourself and the cards you're dealt.

I've gotten to the place where I find life too short for if-only.

Do what you love and don't focus on money - life's too short.

Life's too short not to sleep when you feel like it.

Life is too short to learn everything by personal experience.

Life's too short for minimalism.

I want to experience as much as I can in this very short life that we have.

I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants

I don't think anyone can predict what the short term will look like. In the long term, it will be a Syria without Bashar Assad. The longer it takes, the worse it will get.

I get on with all my exes, so there's nothing I need to forget about. I don't know - life is shorter than it seems.

But even a kid, directing was something that I did. I made short films in school. I feel like I've been in the best film school in the world.

I respect BMW for not interfering in these projects. They're just trying to support short films with their brand, which I think is great.

It is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories - I think it's evolutionary. So you can think of the short story as a literary form, or you can instead think of stories.

In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even though they're all narratives over time, they're very different forms.

I'll take a [Pavel] Chekhov comparison any day! He's of course one of the great masters at the short story form, and has helped define traditional conflict as we understand it.

What about a Princess Bride?" "Where are we gonna find a six-fingered man on such short notice?

Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.

Life is short, and I'd rather be sitting in the poor house doing what I love doing than making a lot of money and being miserable. Life is very short.

For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live.

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.

There is no work of art that is without short cuts.

My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.

Overall I think the show went well, kudos to Miss Jeanie It was well rounded. From artwork to singing, to spoken word to short films, I think it definitely stimulated the audience's senses.

The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.

Life's too short to worry about injecting botulism into your face to get rid of a tiny line because you've laughed too much. To me, that's a bit warped.

Life is short, so fall in love, dear maiden, before your youthful ardor cools off, for there is no tomorrow.

Life's too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.

The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.

If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in five pages. Furthermore, a short story is a perfect place to learn the craft

Life is short, so I am one of those people - and luckily my girlfriend is too - who wants to live everywhere. I don't know how long I'll be there, but I like it right now.

My career goals generally remain the same, but my short time goals constantly change either because I've reached them all or they no longer fit into my current strategy.

The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime

There is no short cut to a place worth going.