Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Galliano

You only get a short life, so take chances.

Ludivine Sagnier

Being a mum makes you more aware of how short life is and how important it is to enjoy every minute because you have less time for yourself. A day doesn't have 24 hours any more - it only lasts 10, or eight. So you learn to get rid of all the parasites. I'm not talking about people, but things that could be toxic for happiness.

Louis D. Brandeis

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

Emily Dickinson

in this short life that only lasts ah hour how much-how little-is within our power.

Eric Liu

What does purpose mean? It means the deepest desire for our short lives to mean something. . . . To speak a language of purpose is to return to first principles and to be able to answer, in plain English, the plain questions of Why? Why should we chip in to help someone else? Why should we defer gratification? Why should we care about the long term? Why should we trust anyone who seems to be limiting our ability to do what we want?

Eric Davis

Life is too short to worry about anything

Eric Davis

Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.

Benjamin Disraeli

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Carrie Fisher

Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?

Michael Davies

There's a freight shortage at the moment. They're going to struggle getting a lot of it over there.

They stopped themselves just short of the intersection.

Craig Stevens

A lot of this has to do with speculation that there was going to be a shortage of supply,

Bill Gates

You're welcome to short them if you want,

This is an unwinding of the yen's short positions.

The yen is being supported by a liquidation of short positions.

Chris Phillips

It's a short tournament. If you don't have it, you don't have much time to find it.

Buddy Rice

It was short but he got to do what he wanted to do and he made it to the top level. That's a part of our job. It just comes with the territory and its just how its going to be.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Nowhere has truth such a short life as in Sicily; a fact has scarcely happened five minutes before its genuine kernel has vanished, been camouflaged, embellished, disfigured, squashed, annihilated by imagination and self interest; shame, fear, generosity, malice, opportunism, charity, all the passions, good as well as evil, fling themselves onto the fact and tear it to pieces; very soon it has vanished altogether.

Henry Miller

Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.

Cassandra Clare

Vampires, fey folk, werewolves, Shadowhunters, and demons - these things made sense to Magnus. But the mundane world - it seemed to have no pattern, no form. Their quicksilver politics. Their short lives...

Cassandra Clare

I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain

James Dean

Forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably.

Isaac Mizrahi

I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful.

George Weinberg

Every man wants to feel that his woman would love him apart from anything else.

Jim Elliot

He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitible? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things.' Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame. But flame is transient, often short lived. Canst thou bear this, my soul - short life? ... Make me thy fuel, Flame of God.

James Cameron

I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

Christopher Eccleston

I loved playing [the Doctor], and taking part in the basic essence and message of the series which is, it's a short life, seize it, and live it as fully as you can. Care for others. Be respectful of all other life forms, regardless of colour or creed. To be part of that was fantastic.

Jet Li

Love is more powerful than kicking ass.

Jeff Vandermeer

The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required reading for anyone who loves short fiction.

Ian Rankin

I love short stories - reading and writing them. The best short stories distill all the potency of a novel into a small but heady draught. They are perfect reading material for the bus or train or for a lunchtime break. Everything extraneous has been strained off by the author. The best short stories pack the heft of any novel, yet resonate like poetry.

Even in the short time I was there, he took me under his wing.

Cameron Crowe

I wanted it to feel like a short story, but it's a long short story,

It would be an interesting test on short notice,