Short Quotes
I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.
Rajiv Ouseph
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
All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
Gary Weiss
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
Life is short so... Take some chances visit the mountains, walk on the beach, say "I love you", hug often, laugh every day, practice unconditional forgiveness.
Katrina Mayer
I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
Kate Adie
When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
Tamara Ecclestone
For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
Cao Yu
The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.
Natalie Maines
I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again.
Ian Anderson
There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.
Walter Hagen
I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
Bahman Ghobadi
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
Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
Kate Atkinson
Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.
F. Sionil Jose
If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
Gary Weiss
Life's too short to worry about the little things. Enjoy what you have today, not what you might get tomorrow
Sarah Dessen
The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.
Nancy Kress
