Quotes of: Short-story Keyword

Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today.

Sara Sheridan

A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content.

Theodore Sturgeon

some stories are sudden like an inhale, some are overcoming like the tides, some, we name mistake, some are called lessons. Stories...tragic, romantic, comedy. We make them, they make us .

Upasana Banerjee

Their story, yours, mine - it's what we all carry with us on this trip we take, and we owe it to each other to respect our stories and learn from them.

William Carlos Williams

My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these back stories about a character and then you throw it away. So then on set, if it doesn't come, then you didn't do ...

Chris Zylka

To have saved one human life is worth more than to build a pagoda with seven stories.

Chinese

One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.

The Cabinet of Curiosities

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

The Children of Húrin

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

Computing machinery and intelligence

Life isn’t really short. There are just too many good books to read in one lifetime.

The Confessions of a Misfit

[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Catharine and Other Writings

Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop.

Envy

Trust her; we girls are two sheets short of psycho when it comes to our special little time.

Forever Black

Obsession is hard work and can only be performed at full speed for short periods of time.

The Front Porch Prophet

Unfortunately, mortal life is very fragile, and very short. Yours could be shorter than usual.

Glass Houses

Long are the lives of elves' he said. Short are the tempers of dwarfs,'Gotrek muttered, just loud enough to be heard.

Giantslayer

Because, life's too short, my friends. Let's squeeze in as many laughs as we can get.

The Book of Awesome

And perhaps the greatest blessing was that we never knew how short the time was.

Bag of Bones

In short, if you should find yourself in a fight against a vampire, you are really right and proper fucked.

Blood, Smoke and Mirrors

Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.

Walter Pater

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.

Hesiod