Short Quotes

We have got a very short time to turn climate change around otherwise we will all die.

If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.

Love teaches you to love your own mortality, just as we love the flowers that bloom for a short time and pass on.

Time holds the final claim check for everything we gain or attain in this lifetime. All of our possessions, along with the people we love, are only loaned to us for a very short time by eternity.

Our physical health is dependent upon energy. We have a short lifespan compared with past Yuga's.

You have but a short time to live in this world. As you age, you will experience the pains of aging. If your hopes and joys rest upon the body, then you will suffer greatly.

Remember that life is short and death is long.

Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.

I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.

I can make no apologies for following my heart.

Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other.

Do you know, Valerio, that even the least among all humans is so great that life is far too short to love him?

I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood.

I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.

I'm very happy - if I can do even a little bit of work to get the short story out more, I'm thrilled.

The bottom line for me is that life is short and art is long.

Every man wants to feel that his woman would love him apart from anything else.

Life is short, and the Tour de France long.

Art is too long, and life is too short.

My advice to graduates is to stay positive. Life is short, and you'll be dead soon.

I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.

For a short time, I hated them. But when you think about it, what good does that do?It takes so much to hold on to hate—you lose your grip on what's important, you know?

I didn't start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short films.

You size up someone physically in less than one second - too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too old, too young, too stuffy, too scruffy.

Life is too short to drink the house wine.

What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!

Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.

Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.

A short story is simplification to the highest degree

The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the evident and superficial thing

With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk

I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was not so good.

If you love a person, you can forgive anything.

You think you're writing one historical novel and it turns into three, and I'm quite used to a short story turning into a novel - that's happened through my whole career.

I would remain nearer you for what time there is." "Gone in one faerie sigh," she quoted. Leather-clad fingers brushed over her short hair, rested on her cheek. "I can hold my breath.

A lot of people didn't realize that with the carpet being pulled out from under me in such a short time frame I got to such a bad place.

I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.

Life was too short and ended too suddenly. If you didn't take advantage of what you had today, tomorrow it might be ripped from you.

A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.

Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear.

I write short stories. I write every day.

I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an Irish American janitor in his brilliant short story "Gold Coast."

The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.

In L.A. summer's blistering heat, I've seen many girls wearing short skirts with Ugg boots. I like the boots, and the short skirts, but I've always wondered, don't their feet get hot?

I met my husband, Will Smith, when I was 19 and auditioned to be his date on 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.' They said I was too short to play the part.

When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them

Life is short. I'm here to make music, I'm not here to sit on a beach. That sounds really boring to me.

It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.