Short Quotes

Well, it doesn't look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about." "Don't sell yourself short. You're more Masterpiece Theatre.

Life is short and I have some things I'd still like to do.

When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.

Life is short. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly and love truly.

What's exciting about using our mind is that we can short circuit all the excuses thrown up by our fears.

Life is too short to waste time changing the sheets every week. Especially when you have small children who tend to wait until you change the sheets to then wet the sheets.

Life is too short to not tell every one you know about Jesus. I need to practice this more.

Life is too short to rush around and be too busy for your kids.

[My father] had spent his own short time like a priest in charge of a relic, forever expecting the blessed blood to liquefy.

I always knew I wanted to make films, but just didn't quite know how to start. I was making little short films with my friends but I wasn't quite sure how to put those pieces together for myself.

Remember... life is short. Each moment you have is precious. Treasure every second. Don't spend them doing anything you don't love.

Ive been more single than not in my short life.

Before my commercial success, I had difficulty doing what I wanted, but my sincere short films always won prizes in festivals. So I was ready for larger successes.

Life is too short for a half-rack.

Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took the story to the publisher of the newspaper who published the story.

My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom.

I'm totally not kidding. Life is too short. This is all too hard to do to actually be kidding about the whole thing.

Writers need restrictions. If somebody just says, "Hey, do you want to write a novel, or an article, or a movie, or a short story, you get shut down."

When I was fifteen years old, the only distinction in music my friends and I made was [that] there's music made by people with short hair and music made by people with long hair.

Oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long term.

We forget, we have a short memory and we're human. This morning my Scripture was Isaiah 26:3, which said, Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee for he trusteth in Thee.

I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.

There's nothing a teacher likes better than ten minute videos. It's not the whole class, but it's not too short, it's enough to wrap a lesson plan around.

Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them, and you may be good enough to be publishable.

I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.

Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.

The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.

I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.

Beauty might prevail in the very short term, but in the medium and longer terms, cultural norms - primarily those values and norms influenced by family - were more important.

I feel... sexier, I think, with short hair. I feel like an alien!

Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative heft as a long short story or a novella.

The President has a short time to let people know that he is serious about getting spending under control.

You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.

I'm constantly trying to figure out how to crack that mystery; how to make a novel that has a sense of immediacy of a short story. I try to do that and I'll try it again, but I'll never get it.

What you can do with a short story that you can't do with a novel is punch someone in the gut, in the best of ways.

Short term "dash for cash" economic solutions hinder progress towards a better, more sustainable, world

I think we'll say flat is the new growth in the short term.

Life is short. Time is short. As we get older, time does quicken. It's long, and it's long pertaining to that thought, that the past is not done with you because you can't rid of it.

Man's pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.

I think that too often we, film directors, think that a big epic novel and feature film are the same. It's a lie. A feature film is much closer to a short story actually.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.

Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.

Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.

Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.

In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits.

If I were to die tomorrow, I think they'd say Newman 56, composer of the hit song, Short People. Jumped off a mountain today.

When do you do things for the love of it? Always. If you're not feeling that, go do something else. Life is too short.

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

I have a good memory for certain things. And a very short memory for painful things - that's my favorite Martha Stewart quote, by the way.

And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.