Short Quotes

Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

About 70 percent of the district was new. It was a short amount of time to get to know hundreds and thousands of people. But with the help and support of old friends, we built a grassroots operation organically from the ground up.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

I think a benefit is that we try to put it up in a short time. From the decision to do this mission until we fly, it's six months and one week or so, so it's a very short time.

What I would do is a 10-minute short of some kind on video, and if it's good enough, you get it passed around town and just get some attention, so then they'll read what you have.

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

Cracked was a very short warrior, whereas Marley was a pacifist warrior.

Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.

It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.

The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.

For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

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

I always think it's important to choose your initial theme very carefully because you're going to be married to it for a long time. You might have to generate an hour's worth of music from a very short, little piece of theme.

I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball.

I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference.

I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.

Life is too short not to experiment.

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

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

Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.

Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.

Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.