Yannick Noah Quotes

Cracked was a very short warrior, whereas Marley was a pacifist warrior.

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• I always intended the title, 'WARRIOR,' to be about spiritual warfare and warrior lives outside of the cage.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Always
  • Spiritual
  • Warrior

• When I was a little girl, I told everyone I was going to marry a very clever scientist and have ten children. I would always draw the children, and they included blond-haired twin boys whom I named Theodore and Frederick: Teddy and Freddy for short.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Children
  • Girl
  • Clever

• Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Time
  • Short

• Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Try
  • Fiction
  • Short

• I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Political

• Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Good
  • Film
  • Emotion

• Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of enigmatic short stories. It's a strange feeling to laugh at a joke written by someone in the 4th century B.C.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Long
  • Feeling
  • Chinese

• See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• When I was growing up, I was teased for being too skinny. I went to summer camp when I was 11. I wore shorts, and the nurse said to me, in front of all my friends, that I was anorexic and that she had to monitor me to make sure I was eating. Because of that trauma, I never wore short pants or short skirts until I was 20.

  

  Hani Furstenberg
  • Up
  • She
  • Friends

• My short game's not that good. It just becomes a matter of getting that weight moving.

  

  Ozzie Smith
  • Good
  • Game
  • Moving

• I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Earth

• When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Long
  • Mother
  • Black

• Life's too short not to have fun with what you wear.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Short

• Maybe it's because I was named for him, but I've always wanted to meet Nathaniel Hawthorne. It's oversimplifying, but all Hawthorne's short stories and novels are, in one way or another, about guilt. Something profoundly disturbing must have happened to him at an early age. I'd like to know what that was.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Age
  • Short
  • Guilt

• Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon-lights in the province of the short story.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Story
  • Perfection
  • Short

• You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Life
  • Worry
  • Short

• You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Different
  • Real
  • Find

• The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Today
  • Space
  • Smart

• I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Acting
  • Movies
  • Director

• I'm part wood nymph. I require mountains and warm, dense patches of moss to thrive.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Mountains
  • Warm
  • Wood

• Robert Arctor halted. Stared at them, at the straights in their fat suits, their fat ties, their fat shoes, and he thought, Substance D can’t destroy their brains; they have none.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Shoes

• Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Long
  • Trade
  • Nobody

• Cracked was a very short warrior, whereas Marley was a pacifist warrior.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Short
  • Warrior
  • Pacifist