Quotes of: Short-life Keyword

In times of war or crisis, power is easily stolen from the many by the few on a promise of security. The more elusive the or imaginary the foe, the better for manufacturing consent.

A Short History of Progress

Most wives fuck their husbands, just to ensure financial support. Marriage is just a form of legalized prostitution, when you really thought about it.

Sex and Stupidity: A collection of Short Stories

As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families.

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

There is hope for you,’ said the Queen. ‘You believe you are my only hope, but, truthfully, I am yours.

Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.

Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays, Vol 1: Parerga

[Rylie:] I was thinking about that short you directed--The Pier. I wondered if you had a video or a reel of it somewhere. [Finn:] You want to see my short. Why? [Rylie:] Color me curious.

Quiet on the Set: A Novel

We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.

A Rosario Castellanos Reader: An Anthology of Her Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays and Drama

The truth feels different from other things. The closest you can come to describing it is that it feels like taking a perfect breath.

Up All Night: A Short Story Collection

The kiss wove between gentle and frenzied, liquid and greedy, silken and primal, and he sucked every second of bliss he could from the forbidden pleasure.

Unintended Guardian: A Mythos Legacy Short Story

I thought this would be the end of your antics. There are three hundred guests sitting in the church and suddenly you believe you can fly?

The Wedding and Other Short Romantic Stories

I did a dance sequence in my second short film, which was my best short film, called 'Hairway to the Stars,' and I think Chris Wink, the founder of Blue Man Group, was in that. It's a black-and-white dance sequence. We were Glorious Food waiters toge...

David O. Russell

Once, I thought I had a novel, and it turned out it was only a short story. I wrote about 800 pages, but it ended up being a short story. And if it ever happens to me again, I Will Go Insane.

Richard Bausch

Seersucker and khaki suits are the key to looking put-together in the summer. I also wear shorts year-round. And I would never say never, but I don't wear sandals. With shorts, it's wing tips and tennis socks.

Thom Browne

I guess for every government - for many governments, they only have short vision, they only have three-year term or a four-year term. So they have to make sure they get enough support from the voter. So they probably have to deal with more short-term...

Shi Zhengrong

By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against them, short-selling acts as a sort of policing system; legal short-sellers have been instrumental in helping expose firms like Enron and WorldCom.

Matt Taibbi

I did 'Echo Beach,' a surfing drama that meant I was often topless. Next came 'Demons,' and the opening sequence had me in my boxer shorts; and then there was a scene in 'Trinity' with me walking around in boxer shorts. It was only one scene in each ...

Christian Cooke

On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance.

George Stephen

When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

James Franco

The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four Eng...

Karl Philipp Moritz

Raoul Duke: You scurvy shiester bastard. I'm a doctor of journalism man! Get in there and clean your shorts! Clean your shorts goddammit like a big boy!

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Sammy: Can we play Big and Small? Grace: Is that a real game, or is that a game you just made up? Sammy: It's a real game that I just made up.

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