Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Jack London

The function of man is to live, not to exist.

H. P. Lovecraft

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.

Omar Torrijos

He who gives love, receives love.

Jeanne Calment

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

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.

Once again, we're on the short end of the stick.

John Hennessy

For a short while, he will be one of best-known slaves in America.

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.

Rafael Nadal

I just wanted to see how the shorts felt again.

Mike Huckabee

Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.

John Green

Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young.

Theo Rossi

I want to experience as much as I can in this very short life that we have.

Larry Wall

If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.

Madonna Ciccone

To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.

Michael Kiwanuka

Ive been more single than not in my short life.

Martina Hingis

The older you get, the more you learn.

Ovid

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

Norv Turner

It's very, very tender and sore right now. We'll see where he's at the end of the week. It's a short week. I think we'll know Thursday. He's just not much better than he was.

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.

I am making sure everyone sticks to a very short script.

Tom Sullivan

I am not here for the short run. I am a follow-through guy,

John Tortorella

I don't want to be short ... but it's not a big concern.

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.

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.

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.

Frank Robinson

The first time was much more severe, and he wasn't able to walk. I think this one will be kind of short term,

Emily Dickinson

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