Short Quotes

Life's too short for chess.

A lot of people didn't realize that with the carpet being pulled out from under me in such a short time frame I got to such a bad place.

You have to have a short memory as a closer.

Last year was a tough decision for me, to end my season so short. But it was the right decision for me, because right now I feel great. I can go out here and sprint full speed right now, but I'm just going to pace myself for April 5.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.

We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short.

Life is too short no matter what party you are with.

I thank the Almighty for the most wonderful 18 years. Far, far, too short a time.

If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.

Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn't true. 'Food Network' continues to get better and evolve.

Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.

Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.

I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.

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

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.

In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.

I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.

The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.

Whoever's president I'm not going to be short on material.

We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather than when you're actually hearing them.

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.

I've lived three lifetimes in my short time.

In short, Luck's always to blame.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike.

It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.

Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.