Quotes of: Life-is-too-short Keyword

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

Abigail Adams

I love things that are harsh and things that are too loud. And I love lulling people into a false sense of security. That's life.

FKA twigs

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

John Hurt

I don't talk to anybody about my personal life, and maybe that perpetuates it, too. But it's really important to own what you want to own and keep it to yourself.

Kristen Stewart

It's got to be harder in real life to win a World Cup. But depending on if you play World Class level on FIFA, it's going to be difficult to win in the video game, too.

Landon Donovan

Tattooing is my social life, too, so most of my time is taken up with that. People like Henry Lewis, Mike Davis at Everlasting Tattoo.

Margaret Cho

I was very shy and somewhat awkward. I studied too hard. And to have this exciting dorm life was a whole new thing.

Nicholson Baker

His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.

Robert W. Service

Sometimes I think we're exposed to things we shouldn't be exposed to too early. I think that sets the tone to a person's whole life. Trauma.

Tracy Morgan

I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.

Yves Saint Laurent

We need to make sure that we never get too busy with life that we don’t have time to live.

Daniel Willey

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

George Bernard Shaw

You may not be a great success when you are too busy with life and forget to love.

Debasish Mridha

People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.

Paul Auster

Dear family, I am drafting a new laundry protocol for better and more considerate usage of the washing machine

The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume One

In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

It’s a way of talking about lust without talking about lust, he told them. It is a way of talking about sex, and fear of sex, and death, and fear of death, and what else is there to talk about?

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Writing's a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won't rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake tastes better than you ever could have dreamed it would.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

History is above all else an argument. It is an argument between different historians; and, perhaps, an argument between the past and the present, an argument between what actually happened, and what is going to happen next. Arguments are important; ...

History: A Very Short Introduction

The difficulty with Poe is not figuring out which of his stories rise to the level required of this collection, but rather which of his stories to exclude from it.

The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Horror Anthology

When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. "Oh, that's not necessary," he replied . "It's so seldom I have one.

A Short History of Nearly Everything