Short Quotes
While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one
Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.
For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.
Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.
You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.
In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
Be indifferent if you lose your short term clients, remember they are your own worst enemy
To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.
Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.
I would love to have a photographic memory. It would come in handy with the rants I'm given on Scrubs... often on short notice!
Catch, then, oh! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer-man a flower; He dies-alas! how soon he dies!
Life is too wonderful, too full, too short and strength too limited to contain its wonder.
I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.
Life's too short to pretend and play games like that. I want to spend my time hanging out with people who make me feel good about myself. People who make me happy.
I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into 'things that I like' and 'things that I must do.' You're only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it.
I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.
On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise.
Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
Being 5' 10", I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball. So that gave me the hunger and the fire to say, Oh yeah? I'd just hit the crap out of the ball.
It will do us little good to wire the world if we limit our vision. It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circuit our souls.
I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!
If I can get a day to myself, I won't answer the phone, I'll read or go for a walk. Simple, basic things. People think there's always time to do that but there isn't. Life is short.
Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story events that mere mention would spoil.