Short Quotes

When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

I was frustrated because I couldn't get going, as I was trying to figure out how to make films. I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films.

I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.

The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.

I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short.

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.

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.

My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.

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.