Short Quotes

And I didn't, that's why my career was very short lived.

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.

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.

From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form.

If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!

I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material.

He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

During my time, there might have been one pitcher or two that were top pitchers on a team. Teams that won maybe had three, but today they have a lot of depth. They have a lot of long relievers, short relievers, and the strategy is different.

Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.

We have held forums here at the White House on workplace flexibility, and the first major bill signed into law by President Obama was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Lilly was here a few weeks ago because we were trying very hard to push paycheck fairness through the Congress. Unfortunately, we fell two votes short.

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going to work if we don't dramatically improve the efficiency of our cars and trucks.

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.

It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.

Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

If you play your cards right things are going to happen in the long run. In the short run, it is anybody's guess.

If you're not having fun - I don't care what you're doing - don't do it. Move on. Find something else, life's too short.