Short Quotes
I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.
When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.
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.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
A non-analogue image has an extremely compressed life. It starts as this and, in increasingly short time spans, becomes that.
I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.
Art is eternal, but life is short..I will make up for it now, I have not a moment to lose.
There are ways of doing stunts without me. I get no pleasure putting my life in jeopardy just to get the shot. Life is too short for that nonsense.
Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.
Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact?
A whole roomful of Jews is like a charged battery. The vitality sparks seem to fly, and frequently the result is a short circuit.
... class differences in health represent a double injustice: life is short where its quality is poor.
I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.
I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.
To be manager of the Yankees under the malevolent dictatorship of George Steinbrenner is like being married to Zsa Zsa Gabor - the union is short and sweet.
Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.
There is a dilemma, to reconcile three time scales: in the short term, the economy; in the middle range, global well-being generally; and, in the long range, the environment.
In the short term, some deadly virus might be more important, but in the long run there is hardly anything more important than asteroids.
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.
For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.
I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.
I think the rest of the world will think we're made, and indeed we are. We've turned out the greatest Prime Minister in the post war years simply because of short term nerves.
My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'
I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.
I've been very lucky to have had the opportunity to play a diverse cast of characters in the short time I've been a voice actor.
