Quotes of: Short-period Keyword

Short Round: I keep telling you, you listen to me more, you live longer!

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Willie: THAT'S the maharaja? A *kid*? Short Round: Maybe he likes *older* women.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

[singing] Timon: And if he falls / In love tonight / It can be assumed... Pumbaa: His carefree days / With us are history. Timon, Pumbaa: In short, our pal / Is doomed!

The Lion King

Gimli: [out of breath] I'm wasted on cross-country! We Dwarves are natural sprinters, very dangerous over short distances.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

[after Boromir's inspiring speech] Faramir: Good Speech. Nice and short. Boromir: Leaves more time for drinking!

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Earl Partridge: This fucking lie... it's so fucking hard, so long! Life ain't short, it's long, it's long, God damn it!

Magnolia

P.A. Announcer: Attention. Attention. All non-commission off - -Attention, all non-commissioned officers will report for short-arm inspection at 0400. That is all.

MASH

Lois Kaiser: [talking through sex hotline] Oh! I can feel your balls up against my ass!

Short Cuts

Han Solo: [to Chewie about the Ewoks] Well, short help is better than no help at all.

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Princess Leia Organa: Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper? Luke Skywalker: Huh? Oh, the uniform. [Luke takes off Stormtrooper mask]

Star Wars

Short Thug: [about Mother Gothel] Whoaaaa! Somebody get me a glass! 'Cuz I just found me a tall drink of water.

Tangled

The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. But I cleared everything. I had a lawyer in New York. And it was cleared for use in a short subject, not a feature.

Kenneth Anger

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct whic...

Elihu Root

When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.

Greg Kinnear

Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.

James Buchan

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

Raymond Chandler

Tennis takes care of everything. It requires agility and quickness to get to the ball, core strength to get power into your shorts and stamina to last for an entire match. In addition to toning your arms and shoulders, it's a total body workout for y...

Samantha Stosur

Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.

Lafcadio Hearn

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.

Mario Batali

In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the bo...

Alex Ferguson

That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway -...

Pat Barker