Short Quotes

I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.

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.

Anger is a short madness.

The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.

Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.

When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you're looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you're beginning to see the Earth evolve.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

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.