Short Quotes

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

My short game's not that good. It just becomes a matter of getting that weight moving.

If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.

I have done some short pieces that are not horror.

I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.

Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago.

I was very short when I was little, so I probably had - and there may be a residue of it now - that Napoleon complex. Wanting to be as big and as powerful as the big guys.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

They say anything can happen in a short series. I just didn't expect it to be that short.

We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

I was shocked. They were going to give me money to make this really odd show? Well, I still had little thought of it going to series, but I thought it was great that my next short film was going to be paid for.

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it.

In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already.

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

Always the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilled confidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country.

I'm much better off the tee. I'm not a great putter. I do not have a good short game.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

Rarely do I attach guilt to something pleasant. Life's too short.

Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.

If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple.

If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

And so we go over the cliff fiscally, and our Republican friends try to pin the blame on discretionary domestic spending, including spending for security. We pass budget resolutions that fall far short.

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

But to make a long story short, I decided that I was going to run, and I announced that I was going to run for president in Florida, I would be the favorite son from Florida, and that would stop Johnson and Kennedy from dividing up the state.

Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.