Short Quotes

Life is short. But desire, desire is long.

The only things you can truly love after such a short time are ice cream flavors and comfortable shoes.

Love isn't meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame.

Rage is a short-lived fury.

Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.

I will do whatever I have to do to reach people with the things I believe are important. Life is too short not to do everything you can.

The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required reading for anyone who loves short fiction.

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

I only look at things in a short term of a few years, but admittedly, I reevaluate what I'm doing, and whether I want to continue touring or not.

I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it.

But certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade, which would then force X number of women in America to [undergo] illegal and dangerous operations.

Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.

We dont see that the Taliban ultimately can succeed, and its a combination both of what the international community can do to support Afghanistan, not just in the short term, but over the long term.

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.

Joy makes the longest journey too short.

I definitely don't think of myself as an actual male model. I'm far too short and my legs are far too muscular.

Birds were like dinosaurs' better selves. They had short lives and long summers. We all should be so lucky as to leave behind such heirs.

It is said that life is too short, and that’s quite true, unless you are lonely. Loneliness can bring time to its knees; an absolute and utter standstill.

Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.

The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.

I never wanted to be the person who said, "I woulda, coulda, shoulda." Life is way too short, and you may not last that long.

Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story.

After college I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director.

I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.

Your dreams are ballbusters; they're not the yellow brick road.

I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a lot more important than writing.

I graduated from high school with the art award and I had made a ton of short films, but it was before DVDs with director commentary.

The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

I love to produce, and I've directed two short films.

I knew Kathy Joosten; we worked together on a very short-lived series called Thanks for CBS.

Life is too short not to say how you feel to the people you love.

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read the greatest American short story, which is 'Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' by Ambrose Bierce.

My family has always called me 'Lay Lay,' and my dad used to always call me 'Dynamite Termite' because I was really short and small and I hated to be still. I would never stop.

You realize that life is short and fragile; and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can change and how quickly things could change.

Human lives are too short to waste in trivialities.

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one.

I feel like the ideal length is three months. I go short and sweet on the engagement. I did have a longish engagement, but I think short and sweet is best.

If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn’t plan to ask for either one.

He's not too short. He's just... concentrated.

I have had, like most women, a lifelong preoccupation with my weight. My first published short story was a love story between an elderly man and a very young morbidity obese woman.

In general, short stories are less read than before, they're less published than before and, not surprisingly, they're less taught than before.

I was such a tomboy. I had absolutely no bosom, and I wore my hair really short - shaved, like a boy.

The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross with hair-line precision.

I will take a short time out from being in Parliament when the baby is born but I'll still be doing my constituency work - just with another baby in tow.

I love the short story for being round, suggestive, insinuating, microcosmic. The story has both the inconvenience and the fascination of new beginnings.

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present - thoughtfully, justly.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. C. S. LEWIS, The Four Loves Life is short. Eternity is long. BENTLEY LITTLE, His Father's Son What we do now echoes in eternity.

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

Most venture capital funds are too short-termist and exit-driven to deal with the highly uncertain and lengthy innovation process.