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Quotes About Short

The industry's memory is quite short, it's true.
~ Diane Lane
The word midget makes me money.
~ Hornswoggle
But time is short, and science is infinite...
~ Thomas Hardy
El trajecte serà curt, pensava. Tant de bo durés sempre!
~ Thomas Mann
Well my darlin, can't say it wasn't a blast, shoat but sweet as they say around the pigpen
~ Thomas Pynchon
Love. I think an angel would fear falling in love with a mortal—someone who could be theirs for only a short time and then would slip away forever." He
~ C.S. Harris
pues que la vida es tan corta,/ soñemos, alma, soñemos...
~ Calderón
Now, Audrey, to me secret: while I have days that I struggle, some pretty terrible days, it mean that I also have stunning days. I weigh them both on the same side of the scale, lesson you taught. Life is short. Life is fragile. I shall grasp it with both hands and hang on, trying always to find the joy.
~ Camron Wright
Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
~ Candice Bergen
Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.
~ Gene Simmons
Life is short. Art long. Opportunity is fleeting. Expierience treacherous. Judgement difficult.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Life is so precious because it's short. Even the most resilient people are fragile. Life isn't about dying or not dying. It's about living well. Living so you can be proud and happy.
~ Ilona Andrews
You see, Elijah, when you live several centuries, you have plenty of time to lose thousands of things. Be th-thankful for short life, Elijah.
~ Isaac Asimov
El gobernador era corpulento, macizo, bajo y de aspecto vulgar.
~ Isaac Asimov
I knew that a zombie book would not particularly appeal to some of my previous readers, but it was artistically compelling, and being able to do a short nonfiction book about poker was really fun and great.
~ Colson Whitehead
Why do I like to write short stories? Well, I certainly didn't intend to. I was going to write a novel. And still! I still come up with ideas for novels. And I even start novels. But something happens to them. They break up. I look at what I really want to do with the material, and it never turns out to be a novel.
~ Alice Munro
There's just no escaping it: The half-life of media on the Internet is super short. Tweets flow and fade; pages that look great today will be gone or, at best, riddled with broken links and outmoded code in five years, tops.
~ Robin Sloan
My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
~ Zadie Smith
My hair is certainly not copious, and I keep it short, always - it's buzzed twice a week.
~ Luke Goss
When you start a movie... when it's a short, people don't care... but when it's a feature they want money.
~ Gaspar Noe
Twitter is so short, it's safe. I don't want my bosses to be like, 'Hey, your script is due and we saw you wrote four blog pages.'
~ Mindy Kaling
War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused
~ Fritz Kreisler
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
~ Robert Wilson Lynd