Quotes of: Short-story Keyword

life is too short to despise people who simply can't help what they've done.

The Rainmaker

Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.

A Short Stay in Hell

...and analysis proved to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.

A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.

A Short History of Progress

Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.

Edward Hoagland

Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let's dance.

Totally Joe

We all take a different path to the same place. Why we took the path we did will always be a mystery.

Diary of a Short Life

Only a mind that is deeply stirred can utter something noble and beyond the power of others.

On the Shortness of Life

Oh, what darkness does great prosperity cast over our minds!

On the Shortness of Life

The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.

Natalie Maines

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

Paulo Coelho

When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.

Michael J. Fox

It's a great blessing if one can lose all sense of time, all worries, if only for a short time, in a book.

Nella Last

But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.

Jane Campion

As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.

Beth Ditto

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

Jeremy Taylor

Life is too short to be doing work that doesn't make you feel happy and fulfilled. I'd rather wait for the right project, as opposed to just taking whatever is handed to me.

Amanda Crew

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Benjamin Disraeli

Life's short, you know? Especially as an athlete. Your career is very short, and you use the opportunities that you have because you're not going to have them again.

Lindsey Vonn

Some people say 'life is too short,' but yet constantly procrastinating as if life on earth is forever.

Edmond Mbiaka