Short Quotes

That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.

To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in.

The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they're more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good.

We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.

In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.

I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.

Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.

When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class.

Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

Well, I know, after all, it is only juxtaposition, Juxtaposition, in short; and what is juxtaposition?

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

I love experiencing other people's realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time.

I think the hardest to replace has been Johnny Collins. He was great to play with. You could always rely on him to be available for a short pass, allowing you time to clear a ball. He would never give the ball away.

When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.

Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps.

To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

I used to be super trendy and totally sexy. But I look back now and I used to want everything short and low cut and you really can't do it all.

Life is too short to work so hard.

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

Two stops after I got on, these two unbelievable short people got on, and the way they were looking at me, I could tell. They wanted to bite my ankles!

George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that's what I'm trying to do.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.

Whatever advice you give, be short.