Short Quotes

I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.

The art is long, life is short.

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

If you do television, and it's great, it's the best job there is. Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. I love that it's like theater too, and the audience, and it's so short, like twenty minutes... It's like a Haiku or something.

The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers, with hundreds of short stories every month, don't exist. Most of the doors for new people have been sealed.

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.

What I remember about that experience is that if you went to go see ' Born On The Fourth Of July' and you happened to take a bathroom break real quick or grab some popcorn, you probably missed me. It was short, but it was memorable.

Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths.

When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.

I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.

My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.

I have a short attention span.

Time is long but life is short.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration.

The only things that haven't worked for me are when I've held back. There's no reason to sell an idea short. The only risk would be to not fulfill the dream.

There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short.

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.