Short Quotes
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Short boots are cool, in my humble opinion. They say, 'Hey! Winter is over, but summer hasn't yet arrived - so enjoy this halfway point!'
Rachel Nichols -
I really do believe some people are naturally novelists and some people are short story writers. For me, when I was in middle school or high school, I started with novels.
M. K. Hobson
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I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.
Gay Talese -
I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn't pronounce certain words at all. She thought that if I wrote something, I would use words I could pronounce. I began writing little poems. I began to write short stories, too.
Walter Dean Myers -
I don't know what a softball question is. All I know is I have no agenda. I ask short questions, and I listen to the answer.
Larry King -
As you get older, you see life is very short, so you have to appreciate more and more and to enjoy it.
Carine Roitfeld -
You have to treat yourself. Life is too short to deprive yourself of things.
Nathalie Emmanuel
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Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on.
Olivia Thirlby -
It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.
Immanuel Velikovsky -
Cease, cows, life is short.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By 'artistic and sensitive' I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school.
P. J. O'Rourke -
People who are short, they're often portrayed as the victim.
Warwick Davis
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We had to get on food stamps for a short period of time, so I understand the need for those.
Ted Yoho -
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.
Harold Ross -
We've learned a bunch of things; when you send a message to people, keep those messages short. Imagine walking up to a girl in a bar and going into a four-minute speech about how great you are. No one wants to hear that.
Sam Yagan -
As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.
Nancy Reagan -
I don't want to be just somebody short who happens to act. I hope my legacy will be Warwick Davis, Actor.
Warwick Davis -
I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.
Ian Rankin
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Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.
Wendy Kopp -
Unfortunately, Poots is the name that I've been graced with for my life, but it's not short for anything - apart from Imogen Poots.
Imogen Poots -
The Olympics is a daunting thing. We have to face the fact that (by doing it this way) we'll cut our players short a little bit.
Phil Jackson -
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
Walter Lippmann