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Quotes About Short

Are the latter aware of their limitations, and do they know that life is short and wonder what point there is in going on?
~ Paulo Coelho
Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or shorter than a haiku. Not very helpful.
~ Campbell McGrath
(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.
~ Richard Armour
I have little art piece, a kind of short film thing I filmed with my friend. It's going to be 20 minutes, and we're going to submit it into festivals but also going to art galleries.
~ Ellery Sprayberry
Mike Tyson always had a big heart, but one of his problems is that he's short. And he's got kind of a personal attitude. But that don't make him a great fighter.
~ Larry Holmes
Nobody had promised as much as the representives of the short man with the silly-looking moustache, p20
~ Darren Shan
You must live in peace," he told us. "We are only in this world for a short period of vivid and wonderful waking in an eternity of dreamless dark.
~ David Almond
Summer's lease hath all too short a date.
~ William Shakespeare
Swift as shadow, short as any dream
~ William Shakespeare
The devil take order! I'll to the throng: Let life be short, else shame will be too long.
~ William Shakespeare
A Constitution", said Napoleon, "should be short and obscure.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Life is short. Short, and not about anything except what you can touch and what touches you.
~ Woody Allen
Why not? Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain - and this is a chance for something special.
~ Woody Allen
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering—and it's all over much too soon.
~ Woody Allen
Be not too hard For life is short and nothing is given to man. Be not to hard When he is sold and bought And must manage as best he can. Be not to hard For soon he dies Often no wiser than he began. Be not too hard For life Is short And nothing is given to man.
~ Unknown
Geniuses have the shortest biographies.
~ Claire Messud
É preciso que se saiba. É preciso que se saiba. Que a vida é curta. Que a vida é curta.
~ Clarice Lispector
Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the sea is.
~ Clive Barker
A LL THE ENTRIES in Freud's diary of his last decade are short. Very few are more than one line long.
~ Clive James
But when the sun drops closer to the earth, the cold of the earth runs to it from the water and causes all green things to dry up. And because the sun has dropped closer to the earth, the days are short, and it is winter.
~ Hildegard of Bingen
Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.
~ Hippocrates
Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile. Life is short, [the] art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult.
~ Hippocrates
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
~ Hippocrates
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
~ Hippocrates