Kasper Gutman: The best goodbyes are short. Adieu.
Gene Shepard: That was a 35 dollar belt!
Rekindled love is generally short-term.
Hicks: Remember: short, controlled bursts.
Psychology has a long past, but only a short history
Life's too short to drink cheap wine...
It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.
My wife is short, and my two kids are also small.
My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
We all want to feel like the most beautiful girl in the room, to be chosen and loved forever. The Cinderella story gives us hope of our impossible dreams becoming true.
...stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills.
I want you to be with someone who really, really loves you. A wild love! A crazy love! I want yours to be the greatest love story of all time!
A story unwritten is without beginning or end. But in its potential lies another story; and in the heartbeat before pen meets page, both stories exist at once, reflecting endless permutations of the other, before one of them disappears forever.
I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.
We do not enjoy a story fully at first reading. Not till curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savor the real beauties.
...what he told himself on those sea-soaked nights...Others joined in and it was discovered that every light had a story-no, every light a story. And the flashes themselves were the stories going out over the waves, as markers and guides and comfort ...
All these years I've had a story in my mind, the story about us that never really existed. And because of that story, I've kept you framed up on the wall in a little box of nostalgic moonlight.
The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of our collective interdependence.
The story was gradually taking shape. Pilon liked it this way. It ruined a story to have it all come out quickly. The good story lay in half-told things which must be filled in out of the hearer's own experience.
