Short Quotes

I'm actually a very shy person, which is why I always chose to be in the kitchen. You can make people happy and entertain them, without really being there. You can make a very short appearance and then say, 'I've got something on the stove, gotta go!'

I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business, but who have become part of the circle for a short period of time. They can be truly devastated when the film wraps and people leave.

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

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.

You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.

IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused.

The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro , like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.

Life is short, and it is here to be lived.

There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said.

Directors are never in short supply of girlfriends.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

If you have a lot of short-term debt, it means that all of that money can be demanded in a very short period of time. Technically, short-term debt means money that's coming due within a year. Typically, it means money that's coming due within 30 to 90 days.

Life's to short for chess.

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

So the programs all start to all look the same. I watched one free skating competition, and I thought I was watching a short program. Everyone was doing exactly the same elements.

Veterans continue to get the short end of the stick when it comes to this administration.

In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.

It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it.

Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

I believe in having each device secured and monitoring each device, rather than just monitoring holistically on the network, and then responding in short enough time for damage control.

All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.

Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

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

The industry's memory is quite short, it's true.