Short Quotes

I never thought about acting before I started modeling, but since then I've been in short films and music videos, and I got interested. It felt natural to switch over.

There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said.

Life is short, but the years are long.

Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes.

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.

Life is short. Help more people.

Not since the British raided Cologne had so many bombs landed in such a small space in such a short time.

Actresses generally arent allowed to have haircuts, because short hair isnt considered as versatile.

Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp.

Did Hillary Clinton short-circuit when she advocated for the overthrow of Muamar Gaddafi and Libya is now an Islamic State stranglehold?

Nobody's too fat - they're just too short.

My father thought a novel was a broken short story. There's something to that. Many of my favorite novels are novellas. The authors of brief things must reckon with the precision of language.

In writing I found a way to make silence and to be silent. The short story has a lot more silence than the novel and that is its success.

Love requited is a short circuit.

History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever.

Love is not a volunteer thing.

Now I feel life is really short and I have to take care of things.

Life's too short to worry about the little things. Enjoy what you have today, not what you might get tomorrow

All of my short films are about marriages, and I think that this probably comes from some kind of unconscious fascination with my parents' story and what they went through.

You can't just pay attention to the short term, you just have to keep publishing.

Nullum ad nocendum tempus angustum est malis. No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors.

Life is short, so live extra lives. Read books.

I've only made short films and two features, which are very different. One is a surreal comedy, and the other is a period tragedy. I'm curious to know what misconceptions this could trigger

My legs are long but my body is too short.

It would be more concerned with the Whole than the parts and has to proceed from the premise that death and pain, short life spans, and no bread without sweat must be accepted.

I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning.

Tom Kealey might be my favorite short story writer and this astonishing collection is long overdue.

We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe

A short story is like a kiss in the dark.

It took only seconds for me to make these discoveries, but even in that short time, my stomach nearly jumped through my mouth trying to reach the food.

I turned down Short Circuit 2 too and I now wish I hadn't. Sequels are a lot of fun and you get to hang out with all your friends.

In my mum's day, you needed to be beautiful for a very short time to catch your man. It didn't start at six and go on until you're 75, right?

It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human history put together.

Beautiful is the bloom of youth, but it lasts only for a short time.

I had a short story collection come out in 2006, and then I couldn't work on large projects for a long time because I was finishing my doctoral degree.

You must believe: a poem is a holy thing - a good poem, that is. The poem, even a short time after being written, seems no miracle; unwritten, it seems something beyond the capacity of the gods.

Music is the only thing in the world that can block out madness, and can be consumed in the sadness, for it helps the soul survive even if only for a short time.

One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.

Whilst large organisations need foresight, they are also notorious in their bias for short term thinking, sometimes rejecting or even suppressing foresight.

Life is too short for non-WOW projects.

Life is so short, it seems careless not to use it all.

I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.

If Francoise Sagan hadn't written a book called A Chateau in Sweden, I would certainly write a short story called A Chateau in Puerto Rico. And I may yet.

A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point.

The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.

Well, when I walk behind short people I feel like I'm going to fall over because I start taking these little steps, and I can't take little steps.

I sat down and wrote a short story in two weeks and submitted it to Marion Zimmer Bradley. And Marion bought "Wound On The Moon" .My first sale and my first pro sale rolled into one.

The World Health Organization is now studying Russia's experience, i.e. how we managed to produce tangible results in such a short time

Wearing short skirts while dancing to a manic routine without showing your knickers or looking indecent is a talent, as far as I'm concerned.

I think life is short, and you can't spend time doing things just to be on set to reassure yourself that people are not going to forget about you.