Quotes of: Life-is-too-short Keyword

My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me, he was still a rock star.

Tracy Morgan

Ya know, right now the most important thing in my life is to make sure you understand that, first of all I thank God I'm alive today, and I mean that. I spent too many years of my life thinking that the big party was the whole thing.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

I've put my life back together, but it's all a growing process and that's neat, too, because if you stop growing, what good is it musically? So that is what I am looking forward to - growing. In some ways, I felt stagnant in my life and it showed.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

I think my life is often more interesting in the tabloids than it is in real life - or less; it depends. But I'm curious. I just try and see what they're going to make up next, and I try to just have fun with it and not take it all too seriously, bec...

Rachel Miner

When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer. When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will ...

Ajahn Brahm

Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.

The Complete Short Stories

Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.

The Complete Short Stories

Can I borrow fifty bucks?” “What?” “I’m short until payday.” “You’re short every day.

Festive in Death

I was not so old that I would deny my own senses.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

If we do not fight to create a future there will be no future for any of us.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

We owe it to each other to tell stories, as people simply...

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

the lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

It was male, of course; menace is always male. ("Nightmare")

Baker's Dozen: 13 Short Mystery Novels

If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.

All That's Left to You: A Novella and Short Stories

He is incredibly handsome. You never realized before how beautiful evil could be.

Realities: a Collection of Short Stories

A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.

Skeleton Crew

Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.

A Short Stay in Hell

...and analysis proved to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.

A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.

A Short History of Progress

This was home. This was perfection. This was everything he'd never known he wanted. (Griff)

Unintended Guardian: A Mythos Legacy Short Story