Quotes About Short

live life to the foolish coz life is to short to be wasted

My colleague Bill Keegan has written a very short book ('Saving the World?') on an unlikely topic - he is the first economist to try to rehabilitate Gordon Brown.

There are jerks all over Washington. Life is short; being a jerk is just unnecessary.

A dancer's life is as peripatetic and unstable as that of an actor's. You're freelancing yourself all the time, and a dancer's lifespan is even shorter than an actor's: once they turn 30 or 35, they have to stop.

Ball teams do not always run true to form in a short series. In a season's campaign, class will tell; the best team will invariably win, unless disaster overtakes it. In a short series, some freak situation, same unusual play, may prove to be the turning point.

Life is short, and nobody knows what's around the corner, but I'm up for lots of new challenges.

I learned to ride a ten-speed when I was 4 or 5. My uncle gave me the bike, hand-me-down, and everyone used to stare at me riding up and down this block. I was too short to reach the pedals, so I put my legs through the V of the frame. I was famous. The little kid who could ride the ten-speed.

I never understood why women wanted equality in the workplace when in fact, that would be selling them short.

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

Life is so short, so beautiful. Don't be so serious about work. Enjoy the lives.

Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work of piety accomplished?

I'm not short, so I can make a speech and drive the stock down and cover the stock. That's not what I do.

I like to read Bengali novels and short stories. I am not that fond of reading English books, as I don't have a connect with it.

I can sketch up a storm, and I'm very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span.

Maybe storytelling belongs in audio - a short story is the length of a commute. That can be a sacred spot where you have the ear of the reader without having to compete with other media like games or TV.

My suits that I wore on Baseball Tonight were in a heap, caked with drywall, which wouldn't be a big deal except it's hard to find 36-short suits other than at Nordstrom for Kids.

It is no coincidence that ours is a time afflicted by a widespread sense of attentional crisis, at least in the West - one captured by the phrase ''homo distractus,'' a species of ever shorter attention span known for compulsively checking his devices.

los libros que recomienda para cultivar la capacidad de negociar es en realidad un libro infantil que se lee en diez minutos: Sopa de Piedras, de Marcia Brown.

Those who accept eternity politics do not expect to live longer, happier, or more fruitful lives. They accept suffering as a mark of righteousness if they think that guilty others are suffering more. Life is nasty, brutish, and short; the pleasure of life is that it can be made nastier, more brutish, and shorter for others.

I like going in the ocean and leaving my hair for two days with the saltwater beachy look. I think that is part of the reason I would love to cut my hair short. I just wouldn't ever have to think about it.

I send all my short fiction to 'Ontario Review' because Joyce Carol Oates is associate editor there, and I think she's fantastic.

Love is so short, and forgetting takes so long.

A woman, not a thing. Wasn't that a prize worth risking everything for, however short a time I might have to enjoy it?

Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities.