Quotes of: Short-period Keyword

Isaac Davis: Years ago I wrote this short story about my Mother called "The Castrating Zionist"

Manhattan

June: I don't go to movies. Griffin Mill: Why not? June: Life is too short.

The Player

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

Short Term 12

Life is short enough, there is nothing worth here to take your life, and those things we do gain can never be taken to our grave.

Anthony Liccione

Do what makes you happy. Life is too short to live on other people's expectations

Amefil

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

Where did everyone find the will to do all the work in the world? We're all allowed a kind of grace period, she decided, when we can coast along, before we really need to choose a life and summon the determination to live it. Her grace period had jus...

I Knew You'd Be Lovely

Think of the most fussy science teacher you ever had. The one who docked your grade if the sixth decimal place in your answer was rounded incorrectly; who tucked in his periodic table T-shirt, corrected every student who said "weight" when he or she ...

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

We get a lot of calls where the person is murdered at home, but is not found for a period of time. And so the animals have already started to take the body apart because they haven't been fed in that period. So your evidence is being chewed up by the...

Every Contact Leaves a Trace

Combat and rape, the public and private forms of organized social violence, are primarily experiences of adolescent and early adult life. The United States Army enlists young men at seventeen; the average age of the Vietnam combat soldier was ninetee...

Trauma and Recovery

I just love food, period.

Mary J. Blige

I'm inspired by history, different periods.

Adam Lambert

I want to live a full life - period.

Regina King

Marriage is hard work, period.

Kyle Chandler

I don't have problems with nobody, period.

Trick Daddy

Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business.

Marvin Hagler

When something is not good, it's bad. Period.

Ritchie Blackmore

I don't support violence, period.

Edward James Olmos

Trying to understand women is a tall order period.

Ricky Schroder

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

Swahili

You can tend to a garden every day for 20, 30 or 40 years. But if one day you stop giving it loving attention and care it will rapidly deteriorate. Weeds will start to grow, and in a relatively short period of time the garden will become a jungle. On...

The Seven Human Needs: A Practical Guide to Finding Harmony and Balance in Everyday Life