Quotes of: Short-time Keyword

It’s a long story. I’ll make it short as I can.

The Goldfinch

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Dalai Lama

It is critical that kids start to learn the value of money, short-term and long-term saving and budgeting at an early age.

Alexa Von Tobel

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

Henry Miller

What have we got?" Ashford said. "Short form." "It's fucking weird, sir," Chan said.

Abaddon's Gate

Life's a short trip. You'll find out.

It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches

Ravings, in short, jealousy of the past, the worst kind of all.

The Satanic Verses

Do short people reach their full potential quicker?

Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems

Life's too short to take yourself seriously, and too long to take a wife jokingly.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

Alice Munro

For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.

Cao Yu

We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

Richard Adams

In days gone by, short-statured people were not only labelled as ugly, stupid and freakish, they were often owned by aristocrats and treated, at best, as entertainment and, at worst, as pets.

Stella Young

You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.

Tobias Wolff

The one noticeable similarity with almost all serial killer victims is their short height and low weight.

Pat Brown

You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.

Peter Maxwell Davies

When Marty Short and I get together, I sit down at the piano and play the score of 'Godspell.'

Paul Shaffer

The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be.

Stewart O'Nan

I was a short order cook in a pool hall in college. So, I am the fastest cook in the world.

Sharon Stone

What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun.

Sarah Vaughan