Quotes of: Life-is-too-short Keyword

Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.

Francis Collins

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.

Charles Saatchi

I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.

Jami Attenberg

War is sometimes described as long periods of boredom punctuated by short moments of excitement. History is often similar, if rather safer.

John H. Arnold

I was just a big guy running down with a big, deep pocket and little short stick putting it against my chest.

Jim Brown

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.

John Barton

I enjoy mixed audiences, not one particular group. Short, tall, scientists, Jews, gentiles, whatever, as long as they breathe and like to laugh.

Don Rickles

Unless it's a dead-straight short putt, you should focus on a spot somewhere along the line you want to roll the ball on.

Ernie Els

I started making little short films with friends, and then I decided I wanted to get into the school play in high school.

Bill Hader

Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Brad Holland

'The New Yorker's fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in 'The New Yorker.'

Gillian Jacobs

In short, philosophical theories are largely the product of the hidden hand of the cognitive unconscious.

George Lakoff

The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.

Gail Sheehy

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.

George Saunders

For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.

Jill McCorkle

Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.

John Podhoretz

What the investment community does like is short-term measures designed to boost share prices.

James Surowiecki

I made sure no butt cheek hung out. You know, the original Daisy, Catherine Bach's shorts were shorter than mine.

Jessica Simpson

I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short.

Juliet Stevenson