Short Quotes

5248 Short quotes by 3398 unique authors

If I had it my way, I would have just kept it short forever. Of course, men like long hair. There's no two ways about… — Emma Watson
Unless you do your best, the day will come when, tired and hungry, you will halt just short of the goal you were ordered to… — George S. Patton
I don't know whether we will find ourselves in the cross hairs, pulled by the short hairs, or just trying to find the next inane… — Corey Taylor
In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be easier, or popular in the… — Richard Leakey
This is the short and the long of it. — William Shakespeare
Life is like a very short visit to a toy shop between birth and death. — Desmond Morris
In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine. — Benjamin Graham
Remember, I am neither a bear nor a bull, I am an agnostic opportunist. I want to make money short- and long-term. I want to… — Jim Cramer
One of my many theories about short stories is that their titles and first lines ought to be memorable, because if not memorable they will… — Damon Knight
God almighty, in a few short hours we will be in battle with the enemy. We do not join battle afraid. We do not ask… — Robert Lee Wolverton
Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story… — Orson Scott Card
Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and are unable to… — Unknown Author
The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists. — V. S. Pritchett
Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story… — V. S. Pritchett
When you send off a short story, it sits on the editor's desk in the same pile with stories by the most famous and honored… — Daniel Quinn
One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is that story ideas… — Roger Zelazny
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all. — Winston Churchill
Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in a novel are… — Elizabeth Bowen
If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing. — Ray Bradbury
You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish… — Neil Gaiman
A home is much more than a house built of lumber, brick, or stone. A home is made of love, sacrifice, and respect. We are… — Thomas S. Monson
It's not about the long ball or the short ball, it's about the right ball. — Bob Paisley
With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing. — Robert Mapplethorpe

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