Short Quotes

5248 Short quotes by 3398 unique authors

A merry life and a short one shall be my motto. — Bartholomew Roberts
A query letter should be like a skirt. Long enough to cover everything, but short enough to be exciting. — Andrea Brown
Hannah Storm in a horrifying, horrifying outfit today. She's got on red go-go boots and a catholic school plaid skirt ... way too short for… — Tony Kornheiser
Small, short-sighted, blonde, barbed - she reminds me of a bright little hedgehog. — Edwina Currie
I think that if you do the best you can in your life, you get your just reward. You sometimes give up a great deal… — Frank Sinatra
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his servant,… — Desiderius Erasmus
Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one. — Unknown Author
Do what you love and don't focus on money - life's too short. — Matt Mullenweg
If Ibsen's 'Enemy of the People' were alive today, he would recognize the ethic that has informed capitalist and communist countries alike - economic growth… — Susannah York
A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100,000 short. — Mickey Rooney
What does the Earth Desire? I will put it in just a few short sentences... To be admired in her loveliness, To be tasted in… — Thomas Berry
Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity. — George Orwell
The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices. — Michel de Certeau
A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be . . . time to commune with your… — Fred Bear
In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity. — Omar Bongo
Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the… — John Buchanan Robinson
It is essential to rear a generation at the very top of society that has all the qualities needed to lead and give the people… — Lee Kuan Yew
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror. — Sarah Zettel
Keep memories of insult on a short leash, and memories of blessing on a long one. — Alan Cohen
The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason. — Theodor Adorno
In short, Mr. Ryan’s plan is devoid of credible math or hard policy choices. And it couldn’t pass even if Republicans were to take the… — David Stockman
Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there. — Sergio Aragones
To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder and… — Josef Albers
The Ploughmen is as good a book as I’ve read in years. Kim Zupan’s language is as rich as Cormac McCarthy’s, and like Cormac’s, it… — Rick DeMarinis

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