Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

A fat person lives shorter but eats longer.

Lennox Lewis

I've found that taking shortcuts will get you to the place you don't want to be much quicker than they get u to the place u want to be.

Jerry Kelly

Boston's for the bombers. I'm a short hitter.

We're going to work on our short game.

Orson Scott Card

How short life is for fools.

We've had that shortage for a long time. It's the most important thing before us.

There is a lot of liquidation of short yen positions, and I'm not sure if it is over yet. This kind of stuff will not end in a day.

It would be an interesting test on short notice,

It was very likely, and to be done in short order.

What started off to be a six-month stay was shortened to a two-month stay.

Regina Spektor

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

Thomas Holcroft

Love and a red rose can't be hid.

Samuel Richardson

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

Samuel Richardson

Love is not a volunteer thing.

Rudy Rucker

Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.

Wilfrid Sheed

Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.

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.

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.

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.

Jet Li

Love is more powerful than kicking ass.

George Weinberg

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I hope you live a life you're proud of.

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.

Cameron Crowe

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

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

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.

Jon Gruden

It's his turn now and he won't have a short leash. We're going to let him play, and we're going to stay with him.

Bill Gates

You're welcome to short them if you want,

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