Even the longest con was never more than an assortment of moments that were in themselves very very short. - Ally Carter Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time. - Silvan Shalom Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a three-minute record they would make you do an edited version for radio, particularly in America. - Pete Townshend Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want. You can choose to dumb yourself down and not express yourself just so you can fit in, just so people won't dislike you. Or, you can f**king live. - Gerard Way

Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends - John Lennon Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. - Joseph Addison I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space. - James Joyce ...life can seem either very long or very short, according to how you live it. - Paulo Coelho The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime. - Alexander Alekhine Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. - John Ruskin 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! - Peter Asher You can feel better about yoursel...

I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short. - Kate Adie Life is too short to read a bad book. - James Joyce The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the good fight. - Paulo Coelho Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly. - Paulo Coelho Life is too short to waste time complaining Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear - Paulo Coelho Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be. - Jodi Picoult What did it clarify for you?" Pinky asked. ...

True writers know that writing is not something they feel required to do, or to make a living they must do, it is quite frankly like breathing. Some can breathe often and fluently, some short breaths, some a long exhale and for many of us it is the patient steady breathing surrounding life. - Milissa R Bailey Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music, some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world? - Elizabeth Bishop As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of getting published; I knew that I had some game, as the basketball players say these days, and I also felt that time was on my side; sooner or later the best-selling writers of the sixties and seventies would either die or go senile, making room for newcomers like me. - Stephen King In an average day, ...

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. - Lord Acton We agree with Simpson and Bowles and others who have looked at this. What's necessary is to stabilize the debt and then work from there. You can't balance the budget in the short term because to do that would be to ratchet down the economy. - David Axelrod The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns. - Ben Bernanke It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come. - Dalai Lama There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, merely because they're pathetic; and the latter, quite frankly, are hard to find. But it's the serious ones I'm interested in. I mean, i...

As a parent, my fear is that when we die, we'll have to watch all those moments in our lives when we were short tempered with our children, all the times they needed our love and we didn't give it, all those times we were distracted or in a bad mood, and all the times we were angry or impatient. My fear is that when the time comes, I'll have to watch all those moments again. That they'll make us watch them before we can get into Heaven - Will Ferguson He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax.. - Bohumil Hrabal The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. - Joseph Joubert

Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our short sightedness. We don't see what we could be. We should be at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become. But if you're surrounded by people who say "I want mine now," you end up with a few people with everything and a military to keep the poor ones from rising up and stealing it. - Mitch Albom And it turned out that the Roberts Commission did not fully utilize the information available and that it came to conclusions which were I think quite short sighted and, indeed, in some cases, scapegoated individuals. - Richard Benveniste He had made a series of foolish decisions in his life. He had not planned well. He had not had courage when he needed it. His decisions had been short sighted. The decisions of his peers had been short sighted. These decisions had been foolish and expedient. - Dave Eggers Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I wa...

Life is short. Short, and not about anything except what you can touch and what touches you. - Woody Allen If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can. - Chuck Palahniuk I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off. - Maggie Grace The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication. - Theodore Sturgeon She was a strange, unsettled planet that had had once sustained life. She was a language that I had thought I almost understood even though I couldn't speak it. She hadn't always been this way. She used to wear high knee ...

I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit it, you're able to hit it with a couple of short sharp shots... it's a beautiful thing. - Alexis Arguello To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block. - W S Gilbert It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself. - Theodore Sturgeon

He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense. - James Joyce Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civility and truth in a few short sentences. - Jane Austen I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'. - James Callaghan Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. - Miguel De Cervantes A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. - Miguel De Cervantes We throw in as many fresh words as we can get away with. Simple, short sentences don't a...

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile. - Madeleine Albright do you know why Satan is so angry all the time?, Because whenever he works a particularly clever bit of mischief God uses it to serve his own Rigteous purposes. So God uses wicked people as his tools? God gives us the freedom to to do great evil, if we choose, Then He uses his own freedom to create goodness out of that evil, for that is what He chooses. So, in the long run, God always wins? Yes, in the short run though it Can be uncomfortable. - Orson Scott Card In the long run, all wrongs are righted, every minus is equalized with a plus, the columns are totaled and the totals are found correct. But that's in the long run. We must live in the short run and matters are often unjust there. The compensating for us of the universe makes all the accounts come out even, but they grind down the good as well as the wicked in the process. - Micha...

More important than success is the individual who strives towards his goal. It is the effort which counts. The goal is just a finish line - it accomplishes there and its happiness short lived. - Amit Abraham Never begrudge others their happiness. Who knows when happiness will be short lived?- - Nancy B Brewer And I didn't, that's why my career was very short lived. - Kitty Carlisle I know hate. And it's short lived. Love lives forever. - Laura Armstrong - Donna Galanti Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived. - Abraham Lincoln Even the most subjected person has moments of rage and resentment so intense that they respond, they act against. There is an inner uprising that leads to rebellion, however short- lived. It may be only momentary but it takes place. That space within oneself where resistance is possible remains. - Bell Hooks Fate is fickle, and the company of unwilling friends short lived. - Brian Jacques I decided however fleeting, how...

Baby," his voice gentled, "this is me seein' to that soft spot when I say quiet-like that I... will... be... there... in ten. And what I mean is, when I get there in ten, your ass better be there." Oh boy. "Are you coming on your bike?" "Yeah." "I'm in a tight, short, little aquamarine dress with high heels. I can't get on a bike. "You're in a tight, short dress and high heels?" Tack asked. "Yes." "I'll be in there in five. - Kristen Ashley So, Mystery Lady? What's it going to be? You're going to spend your short little life playing by their rules, or are you going to take your chance? - Lili St Crow I always think it's important to choose your initial theme very carefully because you're going to be married to it for a long time. You might have to generate an hour's worth of music from a very short, little piece of theme. - Anne Dudley They stood together, arms wrapped tight, lis...

I don't like losing but I've mellowed. I maybe have a short fuse but it goes away quicker now. - Alex Ferguson I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids. - Chris Odonnell Mercy Falls was all about rumors, and the rumor on Jack was that he got his short fuse from his dad. I didn't know about that. It seemed like you ought to pick the sort of person you would be, no matter what your parents were like. - Maggie Stiefvater

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like What about lunch? - A A Milne If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you." "It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch? - A A Milne

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it. - J R R Tolkien Short cuts make for long delays. - J R R Tolkien Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything. - Samuel Johnson ...I saw the infernal Thing blocking my path in the twilight. The dead travel fast, and by short cuts unknown to ordinary coolies. I laughed aloud a second time, and checked my laughter suddenly, for I was afraid I was going mad. - Rudyard Kipling Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations. - Raymond Chandler There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything. - George Washington Carver It is in this way that a war is disastrous. If it does not kill, it transmits to some an energy alien to their own resources; to others it permits ...

Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie before the novel has even come out or been finished. It's a function of this hyper-accelerated society we live in, where everyone is trying to short circuit the process. - Howard Gordon If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process. - Bruce Jenner How did it die?" he asked. "Short circuit," I said. "Old and frayed wires." He looked at me like I was senile. "Could have been disease. Violence. Or, sometimes, things die because we don't love them enough. - Jonathan Messinger

You risked the cub? (Dev) He's not just a cub. (Aimee) You're right. He's the passenger who fell off the short bus. (Dev) - Sherrilyn Kenyon We're so special, when you look in the dictionary under short bus, there's a group picture of us,'' Stevie Rae said, sounding weak but definately alive. - Kristin Cast If I used a higher percentage of my brain I wouldn't of had to ride on the short bus. - Stanley Victor Paskavich Granted, she was obviously one lick away from riding the short bus - Tara Sivec

Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain Maturity is only a short break in adolescence. - Jules Feiffer Our Headmaster is taking a short break, said Professor McGonagall, pointing at the Snape-shaped hole in the window. - J K Rowling

When George asked me to be the prequels, it was the same kind of meeting - it was very short and to the point. It was nice to see him after a long time, and we met in a hotel room. - Ian Mcdiarmid I'm short and to the point. - Shaquille Oneal