Quotes of: Short-time Keyword

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Five Short Novels of Stendhal: The Duchess of Palliano, Vittoria Accoramboni, The Abbess of Castro, Vanina Vanini and The Cenci

Christ, they’d be getting a cat next. He mentally recoiled from the idea: the day they did that, he’d cut off his dick and call himself a lesbian.

Four Chances: A Short Story Quartet

Science and art,... they seek the truth and the meaning of life, they seek God, [and] the soul, and when they are harnessed to passing needs and activities,... then they only complicate and encumber life.

Five Great Short Stories

I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feel The wind that blows beyond the moon, who do not hear the fairy reel

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don’t need to make smart decisions—if they can get rich making dumb decisions?

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

Life is too short to eat food that doesn't taste good.

The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying and Start Making

Life is short, but art is long. Sophocles is dead, but Oedipus lives on…Each of us when we read a great piece of literature is a little more human than befor

How to Read Slowly

Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It's just too bad.

Jenny and the Jaws of Life: Short Stories

Guys willing to hold your dick are a dime a dozen; save your hearts for the one who wants to hold your hand.

Silver Shorts 2012, Week 12

On a cooler sun on a primordial earth: "I later learned that biologists, when they are feeling jocose, refer to this as the 'Chinese Resaturant Problem'--because we has a dim sun.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian's mind: If you try to do too much, you will not do anything.

A Short Guide to Writing about History

Other translations may engage the mind, but the King James Version is the Bible of the heart.

The King James Bible: A Short History from Tyndale to Today

I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.

Lola and the Boy Next Door

..Holidays far apart from each other, going short of things, hours of cold and solitude? Fears? Does money cut distances short, bring people together?

The List of my Desires

Love is like trying to put out a fire with a pair of scissors. I have a thing for redheads with short hair.


Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

They’re so brave," she said. "They’re all dead." "Only a coward would think of that," she said scornfully.

Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

Most wives fuck their husbands, just to ensure financial support. Marriage is just a form of legalized prostitution, when you really thought about it.

Sex and Stupidity: A collection of Short Stories

[Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running toward my life with its arms up yelling

Short Talks

As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families.

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

There is hope for you,’ said the Queen. ‘You believe you are my only hope, but, truthfully, I am yours.

Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances