Quotes of: Short-attention-span Keyword

Love does not choose belief, place, time, situations, or race. love happens between two souls.

Harables: Short Stories 1

...her very kindness was cruel because it was founded not on love but on reason...

Collected Short Stories: Volume 1

Life is short. Clarifying your purpose may be the biggest time-saver in your life's work.

Activate Leadership: Aspen Truths to Empower Millennial Leaders

The need to create a citadel in which to hide from the world is characteristic of people with a schizoid disposition

Jung: A Very Short Introduction

The future, vague and sad, did not frighten me half as much as knowing that it was not carved in stone.

Jenny and the Jaws of Life: Short Stories

Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly

Running Hot

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere).

A Short History of Nearly Everything

There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is a universe is evident proof that you can.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time.

A Short Stay in Hell

All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.

A Short Guide to a Happy Life

the happiest among us will be most altruistic, most distinct, most benevolent and most awkward to some of us in a way.

A Short Affair Called Life

I had kissed her at odd times, in out of the way corners, in the manner of a mountain guide, nothing more.

The Necklace and Other Short Stories

Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels.

The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

For other great mathematicians or philosophers, used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for alone he kept the prefix summus.

A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in writing.

A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

Most boys have seasons of wishing they could die gloriously instead of just being grocery clerks and going on with their humdrum lives.

Short Shorts

When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm

The Short Stories

Love isn’t meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame.

Something Like Summer

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt." [As quoted in Pol Neveux's introduction, ]

Original Maupassant Short Stories