Short Quotes

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?

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

You have very short travel blogs, and I think there's a split among travel writers: the service-oriented writers will say, 'Well, the reader wants to read about his trip, not yours.' Whereas I say, the reader just wants to read a good story and to maybe learn something.

My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that.

I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.

I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.

I am never bored, never short of anything to do and I don't even ever feel lonely. I am quite gregarious and I get out and about a lot, but sometimes it is just wonderful to be on your own.

I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.

In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.

Forget the image, forget the ensemble, forget the rumours, forget the short skirts, the big hair, whatever! I owe this to the fans and I will never forget you so I want to accept this award on behalf of all of you.

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

I'm short and curvy, but I think people want to work with me for reasons other than what I look like.

I think so many people are reactive... they see things in a short term way they're right up against it.

I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.

I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.

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

Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.

I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Come rain or shine I walk short distances rather than taking my car.

When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.

You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.

A fan sent me a letter and a $10 bill. It's a short letter - all she said was, 'Hey, since it's harder for you to go out these days without getting photographed, here $10 for a pizza.' I was like, 'Aww, she sent me money for a pizza so I could eat at home!'

'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

When short guys start working out to bulk up. I like muscles, but I don't like really buff guys.

As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.

The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.

Being short works for me.

I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that taught me I would never be a novelist. I discovered I had no imagination. My short stories were always thinly veiled memoir.

A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.

I like necklaces that are short, the way skateboarders used to wear them in the seventies.

Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

People do not realize this, but my drug addiction was actually a short span of time. It was only for two years.

In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation or decreased economic growth.

'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem in which the poet addresses his adored both as 'love' and as 'guv' - a perfectly decent solution once, but only once, in a while.

No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge's 'Dejection: An Ode' has a rhyme scheme and sequence of long and short lines that goes without regular pattern, following the mood and whim of the poet. Such a form is known as an irregular ode.

The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the quintessential measure of English verse.

I don't like losing but I've mellowed. I maybe have a short fuse but it goes away quicker now.

In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.

I find that as long as I'm acting it doesn't matter if it's for TV, or a series or a short film. I always have fun no matter what I'm doing.

I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.

From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.

I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I started writing short stories, sort of as treatments for the film scripts, and I found I enjoyed writing short stories far more than I enjoyed writing film scripts. Then the short stories got longer and longer and suddenly, I had novels.

In short, Luck's always to blame.

I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.

When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.

If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.

The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it.

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.

Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.

Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.

It is expensive to give plays subtitles, especially for a short run, so most new dramas rarely cross the transcontinental bridge.

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

I have about as much control over how I look as the guy who's short and looks more like a character actor - we both have the same drive to be actors and we both have the same drive to assume these different characters, it's just harder for me to get the chance because they look at me and say, 'Oh, he's this type,' and they stamp me.

In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore - in short, to play.

Childhood is a short season.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Anger is a short madness.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.

The trouble with records is that they're too short.

Early versions of Microsoft Word left a lot to be desired. However, to the company's credit, it quickly learned where Word fell short, made the necessary changes, and repeatedly introduced new versions of the software.

Life is too short not to experiment.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.