Short Quotes

Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie before the novel has even come out or been finished. It's a function of this hyper-accelerated society we live in, where everyone is trying to short circuit the process.

Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.

If you wear short skirts you get your femininity back.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.

In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.

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

In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it.

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.

I'm used to short distances and short bursts of energy; it was just fastest.

I can evaluate a player in a very short period of time because I'm very close to that game, very educated in that game and played the game for a long, long time. I wasn't just a guy with talent. I learned a lot about the game.

When I was in school, I got there on the first day and everyone had long, blonde, straight hair, and I had short, dark, curly hair. I immediately felt I didn't fit in and started growing my hair. But I've learned that I'm only happy when I am truly me and feel comfortable and confident in myself.

I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

If you think you've already made it, that's when you can fall short and go backwards. I'm constantly pushing forward and chasing the element of perfection.

The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour.

The craziest thing I've done is cut my hair blonde and short a couple of years ago. And people reached out to me saying, 'Celine, you're one of the most stable things we have in our lives, don't do that. We want you the way you are.'

If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.

Regarding one's career: always be prepared, no short cuts - hard work is the only alternative that really works.

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.

Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.

Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition.

I have very short hair. It's the only cute haircut I think I've ever had.

Recently, I went up to Casino Rama to see Martin Short's show, just to see how he put it all together. And after the show, I went backstage and picked his brain to find out why he did certain things.

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.

Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of cancels all the smart and interesting stuff out.

In short, industrialism is over.