Short Quotes

5248 Short quotes by 3398 unique authors

Even when there's not a joke or a hook, the first line has to be good and snapem to attention. Songs ain't novels. You don't… — Dan Bern
When I began writing, it was a cosmic thing: Inspiration! Wham! Short spurts of time when I felt out of touch with reality, temporarily insane… — Ann Reed
Writing a song isn't that hard. Writing a good song is difficult. Let's face it, we're faced with taking a complex feeling or event, making… — Ann Reed
I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be so pretentious to say that… — Ben Gibbard
A song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to be revised 'til… — Stephen Sondheim
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the… — William Hazlitt
In making movies, time is so short-because it is so expensive-that we tend to neglect the place from which the best ideas come, namely that… — Mike Nichols
Nobody's too fat - they're just too short. — Sam Ewing
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred. — Thomas A. Edison
What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and easy to fool.… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
With control of the universe at stake, a crash program is imperative.We produced the A-bomb, under the huge Manhattan Project, in an amazingly short time.… — Donald Keyhoe
Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of… — Barbara Kingsolver
It is hard to try and find a rhythm when you're only out there for short spurts, but it's fine, — Eddy Curry
Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks. — Honore de Balzac
There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely… — Joseph Addison
It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the… — Orison Swett Marden
Here in the deep powder snow you don't hear yourself ski. You don't hear your long turns or your short turns. You just float. The… — Unknown Author
Life is too short to be wondering, 'What if?' — Charlyne Yi
For some reason, we see long-term travel to faraway lands as a recurring dream or an exotic temptation, but not something that applies to the… — Rolf Potts
History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories - triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically or… — Grace Lee Boggs
You have to minimize your losses and try to preserve capital for those very few instances where you can make a lot in a very… — Richard Dennis
William Kowalski is the kind of storyteller you don’t see quite enough these days. The yarn spinner with a generous soul. The Hundred Hearts is… — Victor LaValle
Almost said 'theater'! But I know the blacks don't go! Unless it's that My Arms Are Too Short To Box With God production. Or The… — Jimmy Pardo
Zachary Jernigan's short stories are in deep conversation with the history of the genre while maintaining a thoroughly modern sensibility. Here’s a new writer who… — James Patrick Kelly
Writing should be like skirts. Long enough to cover what it needs to cover and short enough to maintain interest. — Scott McClanahan

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