Quotes of: Life-is-too-short Keyword

Steiner: Don't be like me. Salvation doesn't lie within four walls. I'm too serious to be a dilettante and too much a dabbler to be a professional. Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everyt...

La Dolce Vita

Alvy Singer: I think, I think there's too much burden placed on the orgasm, you know, to make up for empty areas in life. Pam: Who said that? Alvy Singer: It may have been Leopold and Loeb.

Annie Hall

Indiana Jones: [trapped on a rope bridge] Shorty! [Indy shouts to Shorty in Chinese. Short Round, wide-eyed, nods and wraps a rope around his arm] Short Round: Hang on lady, we going for a ride! [Indy raises his sword, and Willie realizes] Willie: Oh...

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Over time, a noisy lifestyle and stress make you old. The stress, noise and rush that often accompany working life, family life and social life can be too much for your nervous system and brain, which also need rest and cleansing.

10 Years Younger in 10 Weeks

Because too many times in life there's just one person that I met, just one thing that I heard, one movie that I saw, one song that was sung, that changed my life. So I'm always trying to stay awake to be in the moment, and capture the moments when t...

Mike Singletary

A girl that blushes too much, knows too much.

Chinese

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One

You don't get the good shots sitting on your ass in the bad weather- Mark Johnson

Chronicles of Mark Johnson-8 short ghost stories

We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

We think that tomorrow, unless we surrender, they may drop the moon on us." "You're joking." "Wish I was.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

From the standpoint of what eternity is it better to have read a thousand books than to have ploughed a million furrows?

Collected Short Stories: Volume 1

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.

Tom Wolfe

Before she knew it, she was just another set of eyes in a dusty attic, waiting for the stairs to creak.

An Insomniac's Dream: A Collection of Poems and Short Stories

Short story collections are the literary equivalent of canapés, tapas and mezze in the world of gastronomy: Delightful assortments of tasty morsels to whet the reader's appetite.

Impromptu Scribe

There's no right or wrong way to hurt. Everybody does it their own way. It's how we respond to pain that tells the kind of person we are.

Summer on the Short Bus

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

Selected Short Fiction

We repeat the shout of the Universe. You and I blend together. You are one word and I am another.

Naked Morsels: Short Stories of Spiritual Erotica

I steal," Winkle said, with a smile that said I’m joking and a glint in his eye that said I’m not.

Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.

Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

It has been argued that close attention to the history of science is indispensable for doing good philosophy of science.

Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction

Sometimes an adventure is a mundane thing. A trip to the shore with your best friend. Learning you can laugh in unearthly ways.

Unborn: Three Short Stories