Quotes of: Short-time Keyword

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

Virginia Woolf

I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.

Timothy Ferriss

I grew up in East Germany, and we were short on technology. So my father was really proud to be the owner of a turntable.

Apparat

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.

Marguerite de Valois

I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.

Natalia Tena

A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is usually only a few minutes long.

Russell Smith

The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.

Ted Olson

Television and movies have short-circuited reality. I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on the screen.

Alan Moore

Lambert: I found it. Just short of Zeta II Reticuli. We haven't reached the Outer Rim yet.

Alien

Josephine: Oh, so this is a tall tale? Senior Ed Bloom: Well, it's not a short one.

Big Fish

I guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges.

Alfonso Cuaron

Well, I know, after all, it is only juxtaposition, Juxtaposition, in short; and what is juxtaposition?

Arthur Hugh Clough

I don't like losing but I've mellowed. I maybe have a short fuse but it goes away quicker now.

Alex Ferguson

Life should be like a good Tweet - short, pithy, convey a message and inspire others to follow.

Ashok Kallarakkal

Living appears good, long, and tiresome, but it is way too short than a single stroke of lightning.

Aniruddha Sastikar

Positive defaults align our short-term decisions with our long-term interests. And we don't always do that.

Tom Rath

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Albert Einstein

With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.

Robert Mapplethorpe

Difference between motivation and inspiration - Motivation is external and short lived. Inspiration is internal and lifelong

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Results speak for themselves while intentions often fall short of promises.

Love

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

William Gibson