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

Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?

I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants.

Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned...

A novel is just a story that hasn’t yet discovered a way to be brief.

On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise.

My nickname used to be Moses – still is Moses – for a long time, and people just call me Mo for short.

White Americans have a short memory.

With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.

YOU YOU YOUyour eyes, thick as a high school scrapbook crackling and yellow, curling at the edgesa book of myths in which i do not appear.

Every decade, we get a stunning collection of dynamic, heartbreaking short stories. In the past, those collections came from Barry Hannah, Mark Richard, and Thom Jones.

The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the quintessential measure of English verse.

In the U.S., we really have fallen short of road-racing facilities that have kept up with the times, unfortunately, but it’s a fact.

The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if...

Shows were very different then – even as the headliner we did a very short set by today’s standards and sound systems were really primitive. But the girls made it all worthwhile!

I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that taught me I would never be a novelist. I discovered I...

What does the doctrine of American exceptionalism empower the United States to do? Nothing more than to act better than traditional empires – committed to looting and conquest – have done. So that’s American exceptionalism:...

A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short intervals on either hand.

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

Suddenly I register that St. Clair is shorter than Josh. Much shorter. It’s odd I didn’t notice earlier, but he doesn’t carry himself like a short guy. Most are shy or defensive, or some messed-up...

We have enough gun control. What we need is idiot control.

We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that’s cool, people will listen to it. If we don’t, we would be selling people short.

Don’t sell yourself short—sell yourself medium, because it’s taller. Did you know my love is refillable? For just .99 cents.

I feel like I’m the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!

I’ve never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life’s too short.

I thank the Almighty for the most wonderful 18 years. Far, far, too short a time.

I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball.

What do you call a black man flying a plane? A pilot you racist.

I think one has to understand that there are stages in life, and that the life of an athlete has its limits. It’s short, and then it stops, and sooner or later you have to...

I consider seeing my 30th birthday an accomplishment. You know, not many midgets live to be this tall.

Last night at work, I was short people. I was two midgets and a mute.

Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.

I’m mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

I like to keep myself physically and mentally fit before any important match. I usually take a short nap just before the game and do not practice immediately before the tournament.

Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger.

The sooner, the better!

I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.

Only those of us live for centuries that decided not to live in their short lives.

It is expensive to give plays subtitles, especially for a short run, so most new dramas rarely cross the transcontinental bridge.

Life is too short not to start something stupid.

I don’t suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it.

As a kid, I was so short, it was tough for me to keep up with the taller guys. I always had quick feet, but I just didn’t have any power, really, as a kid.

Arts and crafts, or getting to be in a play with people, or making a little short film, that’s pure sugar, because the stakes are so low.

The industry’s memory is quite short, it’s true.

Life is too short not to do a little practical joking.

Something that’s very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.

Being 5′ 10, I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball. So that gave me the hunger and the fire to say, Oh yeah? I’d just hit the crap out of the...

Just remember…if the world didn’t suck, we’d all fall off.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.