Top 1200 Life It Too Short Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The short answer to 'Why do you write' is - I suppose I write for some of the same reasons I read: to live a double life; to go places I haven't been; to examine life on earth; to come to know people in ways, and at depths, that are otherwise impossible; to be surprised.

I've published a couple of short novels in France that I didn't want to publish in English because I loved the characters too much to subject them to American critics who were not exactly favorable toward my work.

Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.

Messi is the Best. There must be life out there somewhere, on some other planet. Because he is too good and we are just too bad for him.

It's not until they tell you you're going to die soon that you realise how short life is.

The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes.

The events of my life are too unimportant, and have too little interest for any person not of my immediate family, to render them worth communicating or preserving.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

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.

Mahesh is a hands-on father, though he does not have too much free time because of his work. But whenever we can, we take short breaks and vacations and spend time together.

There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to need telling or too hard to explain. After all, after years and travels my secrets are all I have left to chew on in the night.

Life is both short and complicated. People sometimes make baffling choices.

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

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

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.

Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.

People have tried to put me in a box my whole life. I'm too tall. I'm too pretty. Too Miss USA. Wonder Woman. Prettiest woman in the world. And all of that. It doesn't matter because I've gone my own way and have tried to approach my career from a gut level, doing what I thought was right.

I don't think it's ungracious to seek cosmetic help - it has crossed my mind from time to time, and I have been tempted. But it's too short-term. Once you start down that road, you have to keep going.

My family knows everything about me. There are no secrets, which can be suffocating, but I also find comfort in it. You can always reach out an arm, and an aunty will be close by to tell you that your skirt is too short.

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

Problems arise when we go through life relying too much or too little on particular traits, which, in turn, can lead to a crisis.

A person who is a comedian does comedy in real life, too. But then there are others, too, who are very good in real life, but can't perform in front of the camera. They get nervous. Nevertheless, an inborn comedian does comedy whether he is in films or not.

Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

This life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant.

...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.

If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience.

Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.

You have to treat everybody the right way. Otherwise, you'll have a short life. God bless.

A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the pa

There are jerks all over Washington. Life is short; being a jerk is just unnecessary.

Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

If we did not have the adorable Eucharist here below, Jesus our God-with-us, this earth would be much too sad, this life too hard, and time too long. We must be grateful to the divine goodness for having left us this hidden Jesus, this pillar of cloud and fire in this desert

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I do not believe there ever was any life more attractive to a vigorous young fellow than life on a cattle ranch in those days. It was a fine, healthy life, too; it taught a man self-reliance, hardihood, and the value of instant decision...I enjoyed the life to the full.

Intelligence is attractive, but so is life experience. You can't amass it just by reading a ton of books. But you can live a lot of life in a short amount of time. Travel. Talk to everyone. Collect adventures, and use them to understand the world. That's how you learn to treat people well. And that's sexy.

The idea for 'Conversations with Friends' - two college students who befriend a married couple - struck me at first as a concept for a short story. I started to write it under the title 'Melissa,' and eventually, it got too long.

You speak of sacrifice, but it is not my sacrifice I offer. It is yours I ask of you," he went on. "I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain. But I love you enough to hope that you will not care that I am being selfish in trying to make the rest of my life--whatever its length--happy, by spending it with you. I want to be married to you, Tessa. I want it more than I have ever wanted anything else in my life.

I don't make plans, because life is short and unpredictable - much like the weather!

I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful.

We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.

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.

Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I! Freely welcome to my cup, Could'st thou sip and sip it up; Make the most of life you may; Life is short and wears away.

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

We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived.

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

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

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

It would be meaningful if 'Taxi Driver' were to reinterpret cases that were unresolved in the past. A 16-episode miniseries was too short to contain all the stories that we could have told.

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.

Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.

Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

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

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

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.