Quotes About Short

I used to try to decide which was the worst month of the year. In the winter I would choose February. I had it figured out that the reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they had to stand one more blasted day.

(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance.

Prayer ought to be short and pure, unless it be prolonged by the inspiration of Divine grace.

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

This went on for a few minutes, but to save paper and therefore the trees and therefore the forests and therefore the environment and therefore the world I have tried to keep it short.

Zoe's stepmother was quite short, but she made up for it by being as wide as she was tall.

I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.

Life is simply too short to live it less perfectly than it could be lived.

She was only a dew drop that sparkled a short while under the brilliant rays of heaven's sunlight.

The sharp knife of a short life, wellI've had, just enough time.

Our bellies are empty and our patience is short...submit to us and we will make of you a great quiche!' 'Again with the QUICHE?! What kind of self-respecting monster would eat a DAINTY PASTRY DISH?! STEW is what we will make of their bones!' 'Don't get greedy on me! There's three of them! I just want the little one for my quiche!' 'It was nothing to do with greed! It's a matter of principle! MONSTERS DO NOT EAT QUICHE!

Her somewhat overly round head was wedged deep within her shoulders on a short body; it sat right upon it, as though there had never been such a thing as a neck, what a superfluous contraption.

The whole point is that writing has a pattern and life hasn't. Life is so untidy. Art is so short and life so long. It is not possible to have perfection in life but it is possible to have perfection in a novel.

there's starvation in the town, though I doubt if either empress or bishop is going short." He was a man who spoke his mind, and no great respecter of high personages. "A very different tale for the poor townsfolk! But it's biting even the garrison

What about a Princess Bride?" "Where are we gonna find a six-fingered man on such short notice?

Even the longest con was never more than an assortment of moments that were in themselves very very short.

I was studying communications and acting, and I decided over the summer that I wanted to work on my acting skills and perform in a pageant. I didn't have any other way of practicing, so I entered the Miss Rhode Island pageant. I ended up wearing a dress that was a $20 rental. It was too short, and there was a hole in the back of it.

I'm five feet tall - I'm very petite - so for me, if I'm wearing a skirt or dress, it needs to be short, or else it makes me look frumpy. I need to wear either something really short or a maxi dress; anything in between just looks weird.

In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the one who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.

I made the mistake of writing something very, very short about Obama for this website that I write fiction for, and my father told me never do that again. And he was right. I have nothing to add to a political conversation because it's not my area.

If you do television, and it's great, it's the best job there is. Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. I love that it's like theater too, and the audience, and it's so short, like twenty minutes... It's like a Haiku or something.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

People who don't normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they're short.