Quotes of: Life-is-too-short Keyword

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

Henry Miller

What have we got?" Ashford said. "Short form." "It's fucking weird, sir," Chan said.

Abaddon's Gate

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches

Ravings, in short, jealousy of the past, the worst kind of all.

The Satanic Verses

The time is short and the hills is dark and I's got miles to go before I sleeps. Is is no easy road.

Planesrunner

Do short people reach their full potential quicker?

Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

Alice Munro

We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

Richard Adams

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.

Robert Morgan

In days gone by, short-statured people were not only labelled as ugly, stupid and freakish, they were often owned by aristocrats and treated, at best, as entertainment and, at worst, as pets.

Stella Young

You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.

Tobias Wolff

The one noticeable similarity with almost all serial killer victims is their short height and low weight.

Pat Brown

You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.

Peter Maxwell Davies

When Marty Short and I get together, I sit down at the piano and play the score of 'Godspell.'

Paul Shaffer

The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be.

Stewart O'Nan

I was a short order cook in a pool hall in college. So, I am the fastest cook in the world.

Sharon Stone

What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun.

Sarah Vaughan

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

Tom T. Hall

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.

Janet Yellen

Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.

Ken Scott

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Lord Byron