Quotes of: Short-life Keyword

As we parted at the Natural History Museum in London, I asked Richard Fortey how science ensures that when one person goes there's someone ready to take his place. He chuckled rather heartily at my naiveté. 'I'm afraid it's not as if we have substit...

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Here, her hand in mine was the one reality that severed us from the cold click-clack of Hell. I rubbed her hand and she sighed; wasn’t that meaning? Wasn’t that something we could cling to? I could be with this other. I could form no other relati...

A Short Stay in Hell

4. Men's novels are about how to get power. Killing and so on, or winning and so on. So are women's novels, though the method is different. In men's novels, getting the woman or woman goes along with getting the power. It's a perk, not a means. In wo...

Murder in the Dark: Short Fictions and Prose Poems

I still wake longing for your touch Skin open wound raw because I was told that's the only way to heal. I couldn't tame you you weren't meant for domestication meant to roam free but I still remember the first time you said "I love you" a whisper bar...

Letters to My Daughter: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems about Love, Pride, and Identity

Ami leaned into his side and inhaled the fresh scent of man. “Uh, no. Sometimes my biological clock threatens to explode like a ticking bomb, that’s all. Rachel is so lucky. Nat is a doll. Doug adores them. Don’t mind me, I’m just wishing my ...

Lumberjack in Love

The girl and Doctor Reefy began their courtship on a summer afternoon. He was forty-five then and already he had begun the practice of filling his pockets with the scraps of paper that became hard balls and were thrown away. The habit had been formed...

Short Shorts

One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.

The Cabinet of Curiosities

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

The Children of Húrin

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

Computing machinery and intelligence

[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Catharine and Other Writings

Trust her; we girls are two sheets short of psycho when it comes to our special little time.

Forever Black

Obsession is hard work and can only be performed at full speed for short periods of time.

The Front Porch Prophet

Long are the lives of elves' he said. Short are the tempers of dwarfs,'Gotrek muttered, just loud enough to be heard.

Giantslayer

And perhaps the greatest blessing was that we never knew how short the time was.

Bag of Bones

In short, if you should find yourself in a fight against a vampire, you are really right and proper fucked.

Blood, Smoke and Mirrors

Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.

Walter Pater

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.

Hesiod

A young woman hiking alone in the mountains sounds dangerous. In the pre-cell phone era maybe it was, but I'll stop short of calling it foolish.

Claire Cameron

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.

Ben Stein

You don't have a lot of time; you have to get it right. It's amazing how they create these episodes in such a short amount of time. They lavish a lot of care and money on each episode, and they just look terrific.

Margot Kidder

Chicago was where I realized that improv is its own thing, its own art form. And through that, you kind of develop a work ethic of not selling it short.

Thomas Middleditch