Short Quotes · Page 85

I do write short stories and novelettes, and I've written a couple novels - nothing published yet, it's just for me. It's…

— Jackie Fuchs

In a film, you only have a finite amount of time, and you're so concerned with saying what happened and making it…

— Lisa Joy

Every song is a long process. First I have to write a story for it, and then to make it into a…

— Sonita Alizadeh

A lot of times when I was short, I would create a level of activity beforehand that would drive the futures. .…

— Jim Cramer

Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger…

— Yotam Ottolenghi

I had originally written 'Pariah' as a feature, and we shot the first act as a short film, and then we used…

— Dee Rees

My training is very specific to my sport, so it's a lot of fast, explosive movements. It's very pertinent to exactly what…

— Christian McCaffrey

When you think about how everything else works in the digital age and the way that money does, money really falls short.

— Tyler Winklevoss

Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high…

— Barry Ritholtz

I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person…

— Tamron Hall

I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly illuminated with a kind of mock sunset.…

— George Grey

I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding. But it's a good…

— Karl Pilkington

I took a class in college... I think we were reading some short Chekhov plays, and I knew the first day of…

— Jeffrey Wright

Being a mum makes you more aware of how short life is and how important it is to enjoy every minute because…

— Ludivine Sagnier

It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head. So…

— Dr. Seuss

My very first gig was with the Sex Pistols, and it was also our first-ever gig. It was a very short set,…

— Steve Jones

I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.

— Elmore Leonard

I am mostly at home and I do my housework, I read and I love watching documentaries. In short, I love staying…

— Shoojit Sircar

I knew that I'd be able to climb the mountain, but in such a short period? I didn't think so. I mean,…

— Jinder Mahal

After writing for 'SNL,' I never felt like I was properly writing sketch comedy. I felt like I was writing like humorous…

— Julio Torres

I'm definitely trying to make longer songs, but if it's short and good, I'm not going to do anything about it.

— Rich Brian

I knew that a zombie book would not particularly appeal to some of my previous readers, but it was artistically compelling, and…

— Colson Whitehead

If Pitt is on the short list, there's no reason that West Virginia shouldn't be on the Big 12 short list.

— Oliver Luck

It is said that life is too short, and that’s quite true, unless you are lonely. Loneliness can bring time to its…

— Jonathan Hull

After having seen the job done on that first show of mine, I realized that I felt like I wanted to work…

— Flip Wilson

I can play many roles, a guy who takes on a challenge on very short notice with potentially damaging results, if I…

— Michael Sorrentino

Twitter is so short, it's safe. I don't want my bosses to be like, 'Hey, your script is due and we saw…

— Mindy Kaling

“If [a short story author's] very initial sentence tend not to the out bringing of this effect, then he has failed in…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The rocket had worked perfectly, and all I had to do was survive the reentry forces. You do it all, in a…

— Alan Shepard

Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.

— Edward Albee

My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.

— Vincent Cassel

Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest,…

— Martial

Yeah, I used to write short stories at first, but once you work on something, you want to show people. My peers…

— Giveon

I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while,…

— Italo Calvino

I've worked in many companies, and I think that, number one, if you are going to have a great environment, you produce…

— Tory Burch

Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and…

— Joni Eareckson Tada

My flight time is important to me; I actually prefer a longer flight to a short one. That way I have time…

— Nobu Matsuhisa

A short distance away from thriving city centres in virtually all of our cities, you will find areas of endemic worklessness, alienation,…

— Chris Grayling

I am Nia - I have certain traits of my own, and I won't mind telling people that I am a short…

— Nia Sharma

I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen, and my favorite writers of short fiction…

— Emily Perkins