Quotes of: Shortness Keyword

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

Ray Bradbury

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.

Ray Bradbury

A short squeeze could happen with the U.S. dollar if lenders suddenly forced debtors to pay in cash.

Robert Kiyosaki

I'm super, super casual. I like boxer shorts or jeans or tank tops, tennis shoes and flip flops. That's about it for me.

Shannon Elizabeth

I personally believe the film turns out better when shot in one short schedule, plus it doesn't stress the actors.

Shahrukh Khan

I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.

Scott McClellan

Unlike world I have short term memory, so I tell the truth every time.

Singh Rajiv

I'm the perfect kind of personality for making YouTube videos. I deal in short attention span theater. I do wild things.

Steve-O

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?

Jennifer Weiner

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Johann Georg Zimmermann

I did play two years of high school football and was very short and uncoordinated but the second year I was very tall and skinny and very uncoordinated.

Kyle Chandler

The average mutual fund holding period for equity or fixed income is only about three years. It's too short.

Kenneth Fisher

It is expensive to give plays subtitles, especially for a short run, so most new dramas rarely cross the transcontinental bridge.

Katori Hall

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Karl Kraus

It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news.

Kurt Loder

I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, 'I never want to see you again.'

Lorrie Moore

The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.

Lowell Thomas

In the U.S., we really have fallen short of road-racing facilities that have kept up with the times, unfortunately, but it's a fact.

Mario Andretti

People who don't normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they're short.

Mitch Albom

I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.

Mario Benedetti

She was mined for the children in her, one daughter, then another, a short seam, quick to clay, and not a single son to save them.

Robert Wrigley