Quotes of: Short-period Keyword

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

Tobias Wolff

I try to make my comments like a woman's skirt: long enough to be respectable and short enough to be interesting.

Life

We didn't actually overspend our budget. The allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

Love

And we went through AIDS... which was as good a course in mortality as anyone is likely to get, short of war.

Life

Try to live with as few regrets as you can short of zero. A life with no regrets at all was never really lived.

Life

If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!

Victoria Beckham

Life's too short. Live with more courage. Give and receive from the heart. Inspire your world.

Wesam Fawzi

My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I'm pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.

Bill Skarsgard

While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?" It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it: "Nothing.

Cat's Cradle

She often felt like she had been cast in a supporting role with the film that was Louise. And there was more melodrama to be found there than a full-scale Merchant-Ivory period production. Tonight, she was certain, would be no exception.

The Chocolate Is The Life

It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period

The Color Purple

A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final judgement on a current book has to be deferred until it can be seen outside this present moment.

A Circle of Quiet

Sanabalis never seemed to eat, and he deflected most of her questions about Dragon cuisine. Then again, he deflected most of her questions about Dragons, period. Which was annoying because he was one, and could in theory be authorative.

Cast in Silence

Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them.

Don't Fall in Love With Your Words: Fall in Love With Your Craft

I do not think we were afraid of death; life had become such an infinitely boring alternation between a period of stimulation which failed to stimulate and of depression which hardly even depressed.

Diary of a Drug Fiend

Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area to what was happening elsewhere, and what had happened in the past. To view a period in isolation is to miss whatever message it has to offer.

Education of a Wandering Man

Our MANDATE at Blackhawk is to create mega-millionaires. Period. More wealth for our clients, more power for all of us ...the People.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

Alone man enters the world; alone he must launch forth upon eternity; and between the two periods there is many a moment when, despite himself, man is compelled to feel what it is to be utterly alone.

Helen Fleetwood

We are ignorant of the meaning of the dragon in the same way that we are ignorant of the meaning of the universe; but there is something in the dragon’s image that fits man’s imagination, and this accounts for the dragon’s appearance in differe...

The Book of Imaginary Beings

I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies ...

Lawrence Kasdan