Short Quotes

Anger is a short madness.

The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.

Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.

When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you're looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you're beginning to see the Earth evolve.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

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

My short game's not that good. It just becomes a matter of getting that weight moving.

If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.

I have done some short pieces that are not horror.

I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.

Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago.

I was very short when I was little, so I probably had - and there may be a residue of it now - that Napoleon complex. Wanting to be as big and as powerful as the big guys.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

They say anything can happen in a short series. I just didn't expect it to be that short.

We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

I was shocked. They were going to give me money to make this really odd show? Well, I still had little thought of it going to series, but I thought it was great that my next short film was going to be paid for.

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it.

In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already.

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

Always the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilled confidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country.

In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis.

I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film.

Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.

When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.