Short Quotes · Page 27

Football puts everything at your fingertips. And I was raised in a way that focused everything on looking after your family. Faith…

— Edinson Cavani

I think the best writers use the language they use every day when they talk to friends. When we talk to each…

— Morris Gleitzman

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

— Jane Austen

I read a blog about this young filmmaker in the Philippines who made a short film, and one of the characters in…

— Miguel Syjuco

I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to…

— Kate McKinnon

We live in an age where everything is based on the short term.

— Howard Schultz

Actors are often short. It can be hard to make others look good if you are three heads taller.

— Joonas Suotamo

Once a popular Alaska governor with a modest record of accomplishment, Palin could conceivably revive her reputation in this era of short…

— Ron Fournier

I'm a short, fairly plain person who's bluffing his case and getting away with it.

— James Blunt

When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend,…

— Doris Lessing

My first experience on public radio still ranks among the most embarrassing episodes of my relatively short life.

— Tucker Carlson

When you want to say something very important, tell it with a short sentence! There is no time for long stories!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Because I'm short, I have a low center of gravity and I know how to use my weight. If I don't want…

— Bushwick Bill

'Sara' was the first film project I worked on as an actress; it's a short film.

— Jessica Clark

I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.

— Jason Silva

A footballer's career is very short, and I want to finish it in a strong and spectacular way.

— Filipe Luis

I'm trying to grow more limbs in order to multitask at a greater rate and I'm also investigating the possibilities of cloning.…

— Ezra Miller

That awkward moment.

— Anonymous

Being attracted to my own sex was as much part of who I was as being short or blonde or drawn to…

— Sandi Toksvig

I'm always writing across the same themes. But with short stories, I'm doing something different than with novels. In some ways, they're…

— Lynn Coady

Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're…

— George R. R. Martin

I loved 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.' I read it later as an adult, but I loved 'We Have Always Lived in…

— Suzanne Collins

For whatever reason, God was putting me in these situations, in these stories about Jesus, so often, in such a relatively short…

— Jonathan Roumie

As a little kid in a sometimes hard place, I went to the movies as often as I could. Movies - making…

— Mike Nichols

In a short campaign there's no way any of us can meet all the voters.

— Michael Capuano