Quotes of: Short-life Keyword

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

Mason: Marcus is going to get better. Grace: I think I am too.

Short Term 12

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

If the hours are long enough and the pay is short enough, someone will say it's women's work.

Swahili

My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.

The Complete Short Stories

In this cage, behind these bars, I think of you and me.

Caged View: A Collection of Urban Fantasy Short Stories

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

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

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