Quotes of: Short-period Keyword

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

Anatole France

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Josh Billings

I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.

Trisha Yearwood

There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.

Iggy Azalea

I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers or brain cleansers.

Jami Attenberg

The way to a woman's heart might best be reached via a short cut.

Dixie Waters

I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.

Evan Dando

The U.S. has a stronger military than Israel, but, but don't short-change Israel, either. Don't short-change them.

Benjamin Netanyahu

I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it.

Dorothy Hamill

A trail through the mountains, if used, becomes a path in a short time, but, if unused, becomes blocked by grass in an equally short time.

Mencius

One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.

Tobias Wolff

They say anything can happen in a short series. I just didn't expect it to be that short.

Al Lopez

The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.

Tobias Wolff

Does marriage have such a revolutionary power that a long-established habit can be overthrown in such a short time?

Yiyun Li

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

Annie Proulx

I think the purest of souls, those with the most fragile of hearts, must be meant for a short life. They can't be tethered or held in your palm. Just like a sparrow, they light on your porch. Their song might be brief, but how greedy would we be to a...

The Short Life of Sparrows

Your mistake is that you've concluded life is short, so you treat it as if it's precious, like a pretty little princess. Bullshit! Everyone's life is short. Quit feeling sorry for yourself. Fuck it. Treat it like a cheap hooker. Ask crazy shit from i...

So Shelly

When I was growing up, I was teased for being too skinny. I went to summer camp when I was 11. I wore shorts, and the nurse said to me, in front of all my friends, that I was anorexic and that she had to monitor me to make sure I was eating. Because ...

Hani Furstenberg

A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then they are finished. Marathoners have to carefully pace themselves so that they don't run out of energy (or in the case of the novelist-- ideas)...

Jonathan Carroll

Germans at the time believed, a little oddly, that dyes killed germs by turning the germs’ vital organs the wrong color.

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, ...

Nature and Selected Essays