Short Quotes
Im very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.
I was a lady gunda in school. Everyone was scared of me, and I was really short and round.
At times our children may not be in possession of a good spirit; but if the parent continues to possess the good Spirit, the children will have the bad spirit but a short time.
Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.
'Brookline' was a very small film and it was only here for a very short time and I wasn't able to catch it.
I've written some short stories about my personal experience, but it's not something you can use everywhere. Every novel, every work of fiction, needs its own food.
When I met Eric Clapton, I was a very young girl. I was 20 years old. And we were linked for a very short time, and then we became friends. And then we lost touch, which I'm really sorry about.
Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.
Really, I think among the many mistakes I've made over my life, one of them was caring so much about the short story.
All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.
Humans are wired to feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and contingency, and so we gravitate to a position after a short time even if we have no new information.
Nothing is too long or too short either if you have a true and interesting tale and what I call a "graphic" writing style combined with educational aims.
For a sampler, you could try my short story collection "Wireless". Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one that won a Hugo, and covers a range of different styles.
You can't come back to TV for two months. It's too short. You can't start anything. It's too much of a tease and there's really nowhere you can go.
Life is short. Ricky and I realize how lucky we were. We want to be together all the time.
Sometimes I do work on a longer manuscript in tandem with one or two shorter pieces - whether it's a short story or an essay (though I don't write many of the latter).
A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine
Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the sea is.
One night I had a dream and woke up and wrote down the dream. That was my first short story. The dream was a kind of fantasy of me getting revenge on my father.
Writing a short story is a little like walking into a dark room, finding a light and turning it on. The light is the end of the story.
A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.
Because life is short but sweet for certain We're climbing two by two To be sure these days continue These things we cannot change
You don't have to dislike people you disagree with and it doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to have bipartisan friendships in this place. Life's too short to have it any other way.
Life is too short to waste time harboring bad feelings about anyone. Forgive, forget, then move on!
If life is too short, get off the floor at the hotel bar. How can you go big if you're on the floor? I don't understand it.
All of those guys who told me that I was too short and how complicated the game was, it is not that complicated. It is the same game I have always played.
Photography seems to fix, but this is an illusion created by our short lives. A photograph is merely a note held for 200 years.
I don't think that life happens by sitting back and waiting. People hold their cards so tight to their chest. Life is short. Tell people you love them. What's the worst that's going to happen?
So many people are passive participants in their very short time of having a consciousness, and those who aren't inspire me. Like Malala Yousafzai or a ninety-two-year-old yoga instructor.
In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being.
Speculation is a fool's game, but I've seen many political projections that look like the Taliban could hold most of the country, and possibly Kabul, within perhaps a short time.
A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment.
The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses. They tired his eyes so that after a short time he was always obliged to stop.
Do not have your child's hair cut by a real hairdresser in a real hairdressing salon. He is, at this point, far too short to be exposed to contempt.
In Mosca’s experience, a ‘long story’ was always a short story someone did not want to tell.
Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.