Short Quotes

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.

In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, and implicitly negated.

What's so wonderful about being 6'3". What is this mythical edge tall men have over average and short men?

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal.

I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.

There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.

Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise.

We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.

I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.

I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.

Life is too short to be a boring company.

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.

We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn't any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don't worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook and Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore.

White Americans have a short memory.

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.

Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.