Quotes of: Life-is-too-short Keyword

The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.

Natalie Maines

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

Theodore Sturgeon

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

Lynn Abbey

When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.

Michael J. Fox

It's a great blessing if one can lose all sense of time, all worries, if only for a short time, in a book.

Nella Last

But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.

Jane Campion

When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

Irwin Shaw

I love film and, particularly, shorts. You don't get to see them often, and they're a great little form, like a short story.

Sarah Waters

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

Jeremy Taylor

I sold my first short story to Pyramid Press, where it was chiseled onto fifteen slabs of granite, and for which I was paid nine goats.

Frank Tuttle

I have very short hair. It's the only cute haircut I think I've ever had.

Jamie Lee Curtis

When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.

Brett Ratner

Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

James McBride

Isaac Davis: Years ago I wrote this short story about my Mother called "The Castrating Zionist"

Manhattan

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

Walter Kirn

Life is not compassionate towards victims. The trick is not to see yourself as one. It's never too late! I know I've felt like the victim in various situations in my life, but, it's never too late for me to realize that it's my responsibility to stan...

C. JoyBell C.

Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.

Titus Groan

I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.

Carter Burwell

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.

David Lynch

Life is about now - some things are just too important to miss.

Greg Wise

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec