Top 1200 Hilarious Short Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then they are finished. Marathoners have to carefully pace themselves so that they don't run out of energy (or in the case of the novelist-- ideas) because they have so far to run. To mix the metaphor, writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.

The most important thing that a company can do in the midst of this economic turmoil is to not lose sight of the long-term perspective. Don't confuse the short-term crises with the long-term trends. Amidst all of these short-term change are some fundamental structural transformations happening in the economy, and the best way to stay in business is to not allow the short-term distractions to cause you to ignore what is happening in the long term.

People tend to overestimate the short-term impact of technological change. In the short-term, it's not going to make that much of a difference.

Every Brit I met had the best sense of humor. They're hilarious: very dry and witty.

In my mind, I'm hilarious, so I would love to do some comedy. But, I'm not exactly sure my perspective is a healthy one.

I'm very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.

Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being. It's like trying to pin down the eternal moment.

Running with the bulls was one of my crazier judgments in life and one of those things I decided to do spur of the moment. It was pretty hilarious.

I'm a fan of short horror fiction... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety... but I have a hard time pulling it off myself.

The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.

But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.

Life is too short to do mediocre work and it is definitely too short to build shitty things.

The cast of 'Parks & Rec' is just a group of unbelievably nice, humble, down to earth, hilarious friends.

I like trolls. Some trolling I find very entertaining. The sheer abuse can be hilarious, and so random and absurd.

Blackpool is a hilarious place. It's kind of like the Las Vegas of the U.K. It's by the sea and there's a lot of casinos and resorts.

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

When you have short hair, there's just a feeling of here I am. What you see is what you get. And there's a confidence that comes with wearing short hair and I like the way that makes me feel.

I had originally written 'Pariah' as a feature, and we shot the first act as a short film, and then we used the short as a marketing tool to fundraise for the feature.

I have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

When you're short on sleep, you're short on patience. You're ruder to people, less tolerant, less understanding. It's harder to relate and to pay attention for sustained periods of time.

I'm one of those writers who started off writing novels and came to writing short stories later, partly because I didn't have the right ideas, partly because I think that short stories are more difficult. I think learning to write short stories also made me attracted toward a paring down of the novel form.

Shakira is a new friend, but I love her dearly already. She's so sweet and adorable and hilarious.

When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.

With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.

Short film: you can be poetic and you don't have to answer anything. You can make whatever you want. You have creative freedom with short film.

'South Park' is so hilarious... I remember when it first came out: that show changed television forever.

It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.

I think a benefit is that we try to put it up in a short time. From the decision to do this mission until we fly, it's six months and one week or so, so it's a very short time.

Lebanese freedom of speech : You get to say whatever you like as long as the authorities approve of it... Hilarious.

Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven't got time.

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

I just want us to all have a good time and to party and enjoy this life, because it's too short. It's too short.

Attention spans are short. Like, eight seconds short. That's why it's necessary to grab people's attention immediately.

Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph - when they speak, everyone listens. Because they're freaking hilarious.

I have always loved short stories. I have been at least as influenced by the short story masters as I have been by novelists.

I just love when girls rock short hair, because they can't hide behind anything. I feel more empowered with short hair.

I love living in Birmingham, it's just a lovely gentle life, and it's calm. And it's full of Brummies who I find hilarious.

Im very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.

I hate to be one of those people who forwards links to 'hilarious pictures' or 'brilliant games' to half their contacts database.

I have a book in the pipeline of short stories. You want to hear an agent scream, say 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.

While I'm trying to be a villain, Tyler Posey's just making me break character all the time. It's hilarious.

I think our collective psychosis is hilarious. With the world moving as fast as it is, if we weren't dysfunctional, we couldn't function.

The odd things that people say to you are so much more hilarious than what you can come up with.

The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.

That's the fun thing about fashion: it changes. One day, we're into short, the next we're into full length for day, or half short and long.

A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.

Jack Black is so funny! On and off screen, like, he would make you laugh every day. He's hilarious.

I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious.

A hilarious, honest, heartfelt look at what it means to take on a family that isn't your own...Izzy Rose rocks it.

A short story is "a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal...having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out.

I have had my fair share of relationships. It's normal and one shouldn't judge me for it because in school you have many short-short relationships, you know.

Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.

I stretch while I am brushing my teeth to save time, and my son likes to join in and thinks it's hilarious.

I was a huge fan of 'Arrested Development,' and there's just something it tickles in me and it's bright and it's hilarious.

I would love to work with Ryan Reynolds - I think he is hilarious and talented - and also Seth Rogen.

Comedy clubs have brick walls behind the performer. Bricks make you funny. When I'm in front of a fireplace, I'm hilarious.

If I can surround myself with hilarious people every day, I will always want to go to work.

When I'm on the set at 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,' of course the content isn't funny, but the other actors are hilarious.