Short Quotes
I'm not going to hold my breath because life goes on. Life is too short to sit around moaning about what could have been or what was.
The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.
Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.
Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.
When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.
I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.
Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.
I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.'
I was really short in high school. I was stuck on the bench in the baseball team, so I just thought I'd try out theater, and that was the last time I did sports.
With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.
I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.
I've had long hair, I've had short hair, and I've had in between hair... and its all good.
When I buy, I buy players for the long term, not the short term because I do respect the club a lot and also the other clubs.
She nods. You're good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is.
When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of gains and losses.
A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.
Extensions is you suddenly have long hair when you have short hair, and you can sleep with it and you have it forever, as long as you want to.
Regarding one's career: always be prepared, no short cuts - hard work is the only alternative that really works.
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Graduates, your values matter. They are your north star. And work takes on new meaning when you feel you're pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it's just a job. And life is too short for that.
I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.
Have a short memory and a lot of forgiveness. Especially us girls who don't forget a thing. Move on.
A non-analogue image has an extremely compressed life. It starts as this and, in increasingly short time spans, becomes that.
Art is eternal, but life is short..I will make up for it now, I have not a moment to lose.
I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.