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Quotes About Short

The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
My career was obviously cut shorter than I wanted it to be.
~ Eliot Spitzer
I'll just say this one: on each my shinguards, I'll kiss them before I put them on, and I'll put the names of the people I've loved and lost to remind myself that life is short and to take advantage of the opportunity.
~ Clint Dempsey
I don't normally make documentaries. I'm a drama director. I've made a few short docs, but I don't like talking heads or 'voice of God' narrators.
~ Asif Kapadia
I did play two years of high school football and was very short and uncoordinated but the second year I was very tall and skinny and very uncoordinated.
~ Kyle Chandler
I am not a tall man.
~ Brandon Webb
I'm only five feet tall, so I'm short.
~ Skai Jackson
The important point is that the competitive life of an asset may be different (and usually shorter) than its accounting life.
~ Rita Gunther McGrath
If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like. Life is too short to be miserable. If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Life's too short to try and understand cold-blooded creatures.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Just remember, life is short. You have to enjoy every moment before it passes you by.
~ Kien Nguyen
A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.
~ Kingsley Amis
The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.
~ Arthur Smith
Life is too short to make just one decision, Music's too loud for just one station, Love is too big for just one nation, AND GOD IS TOO BIG FOR JUST ONE RELIGION...
~ Michael Franti
With life as short as a half taken breath, don't plant anything but love.
~ Jalaluddin Rumi
I saw a giraffe with a short neck That was sad Or a deer
~ Bo Burnham
The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
The news I read was so upsetting that it drove all else out of my mind. There was but one short line:   "According to reliable sources, new traces have been discovered of the elusive organization which aims at liberation from the beneficent yoke of the State."   "Liberation?" Amazing, the extent to which criminal instincts persist in human nature.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
I fell in love with the short story form and kept on going. I found that even 3,000 words is surprisingly spacious and that writing short allowed me to experimented with different subgenres and voices without a huge investment of time and energy or too much of a stake in the outcome for any particular story.
~ zelvin elizabeth
What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long.
~ Denis Leary
Sometimes relationships are short, sometimes long, sometimes they're very deep and intense, and drama school is a hell of a learning curve.
~ Sophie Cookson
Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.
~ Seneca the Younger
I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.
~ Alexander the Great
Life in this world is short. Let us make use of our lives in the pursuit of happiness and not trouble.
~ Tunku Abdul Rahman