Life is too short to not be pursuing the best opportunity you know of.

I have a lot of incomplete short films and incomplete scripts out there.

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers or brain cleansers.

Life is too short to plan it, and worse than all, no idea of how short

Life’s too short not to laugh about yourself and the cards you’re dealt.

I think so many people are reactive… they see things in a short term way they’re right up against it.

The shinbone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room.

The autumn leaf falls faster than the trees grow faster. (La feuille d’automne descend plus vite – Que les arbres ne grandissent plus vite.)

I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on...

Because I’m short and slim, I can identify with somebody who’s an unlikely fit for something and desperately wants to be part of it.

The industry has a very short memory of what’s possible, and they like to typecast you.

High heels are a short (theist) woman’s (subconscious) way of telling God to go to hell … in public.

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they’re short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

A bus is a vehicle that runs twice as fast when you are after it as when you are in it.

Of course China is an important new market for Tod’s, and of course we need to succeed commercially. But I believe the way to do that is not to aim to deliver results in the...

No matter how short or long your journey to your accomplishment is, if you don’t begin you can’t get there. Beginning is difficult, but unavoidable!

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

I suppose there are times when I can’t believe that I’ve lived the way that I have and done the things that I’ve done. Life’s a joke anyway. It’s all ridiculous. It’s all so short.

Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.

It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Good directors give short and specific instructions to their actors.

I worked 18 years to become an overnight success. Now MagicPlace.com will short circuit that process for people.

In terms of the pilot, you have to introduce a lot of characters in a very short period of time, and you have to paint with slightly broad brush strokes because you just need to...

My little secret before I do every scene is I say a short little prayer.

My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and...

Hand in hand they whispered for a while. The girl nodded and the bear laughed. Together, they made their way down the corridor and to the foot of the stairs.

There’s a fine line between cuddling and holding someone down so they can’t get away.

Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn’t compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.

I try not to sell myself short, unless I’m giving myself a great price on the stuff.

I don’t think I’d have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I’d love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

In short, software is eating the world.

I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I’ve always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my...

Cheer up, the worst is yet to come

I think the hedge-fund industry has taken a reputational turn for the worse, this dog-eat-dog stuff. I’m not just talking about Herbalife or J. C. Penney, but in other situations where the media really focuses...

In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children’s curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore – in short,...

‘The New Yorker’s fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in ‘The New Yorker.’

In L.A. summer’s blistering heat, I’ve seen many girls wearing short skirts with Ugg boots. I like the boots, and the short skirts, but I’ve always wondered, don’t their feet get hot?

The trouble with records is that they’re too short.

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

Life is short, so live it full! Know that the work that the Lord has begun in you, He will finish it. So, honor Him today with your gift to Him, “steadfastness/endurance to live His...

I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.

I like necklaces that are short, the way skateboarders used to wear them in the seventies.

When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations.

I have a really good band, and just returned from a short tour in California. It hasn’t always gone that well.

I feel… sexier, I think, with short hair. I feel like an alien!

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed...

Always remember that you are unique; just like everyone else.

You need propellants to accelerate toward Mars, then to decelerate at Mars, again to re-accelerate from Mars to Earth, and finally to decelerate back at Earth. Accordingly, the mass of these required propellants, in short,...