Shorter Quotes
258 Shorter quotes by 222 unique authors
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As far as rearing children goes, the basic idea I try to keep in mind is that a child is a person. Just because they…
— Frank Zappa
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Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives.
— Charles Wheelan
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You know, I'm not real tall. I'm 6'0, 6'½, but I think people think I'm shorter than I am because I'm not the most muscular…
— Mark McGrath
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I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.
— David Prowse
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You walk into the playgrounds in Shanghai and Beijing, and you see youngsters who are shorter, shaking and baking and having attitude. And Jeremy Lin…
— David Stern
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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
— Laini Taylor
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I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships.
— Calista Flockhart
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Generalists, people with moderately strong attachments to many ideas, should be hard to interrupt, and once interrupted, should have weaker, shorter negative reactions since they…
— Karl E. Weick
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Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter.
— Casey Kasem
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It doesn't seem as if there's that much of a difference between a big production and a little production, other than you have a smaller…
— Jennifer Beals
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I think the rigors of a TV schedule are brutal and 'Six Feet Under' wasn't a network schedule. We did 13 shows, we didn't do…
— Frances Conroy
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Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and…
— Alex Flinn
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I think everybody else in Hollywood, including network execs, has the opportunity to ask for a raise or a change in scenery in a much…
— Jorja Fox
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I have shaved my head. My flowing locks are now quite a bit shorter.
— David Ginola
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The finer the bait, the shorter the wait!
— Frank Gorshin
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And then the last album, "Get It", was done over a shorter period of time and I started using other musicians, as opposed to playing…
— Dave Edmunds
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In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is
— Nancy Kress
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It's hard to mix with a crowd when you're walking down the hallway and everybody else is a foot shorter. I remember hanging out with…
— Randy Johnson
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I thought it was time to get a group together and the first person I thought of was Wayne Shorter. I called Wayne and in…
— Miroslav Vitous
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Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.
— Austin O'Malley
Who Wrote These Shorter Quotes
222 authors contributed a total of 258 Shorter Quotes, led by these top contributors: