Top 1200 Short Cuts Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Destiny cuts the cake of love, Three slices to some, To others, a crumb.

Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.

When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

Trying to balance the budget through defense cuts is both counterproductive and impossible.

He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.

If you are always pressing the envelope, you will suffer many paper cuts.

We need to restore the Bush tax cuts or actually make them permanent.

I regret that there aren't more short stories in other magazines. But in a certain way, I think the disappearance of the short-story template from everyone's head can be freeing. Partly because there's no mass market for stories, the form is up for grabs. It can be many, many things. So the anthology is very much intended for students, but I think we're all in the position of writing students now. Very few people are going around with a day-to-day engagement with the short story.

Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.

Preparing for a short-notice fight is dangerous, it doesn't even matter who you are preparing for. Short-notice fights suck.

It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.

I've done a lot of independent film, which are short shoots that are usually four to six weeks, max. I enjoy everything. After one particular experience of work, I like to go in the opposite direction and do a short film, or something else.

We have populations now in the West with a very short memory span. One reason for this short memory span is that television over the last fifteen years has seen a big decline in the coverage of the rest of the world.

I love those films where I feel the director's confidence - where he doesn't need to overdo it with the shots and the cuts.

Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's next to the poem, almost every word has got to be almost exactly right. In the novel you can be careless but in the short story you can't. I mean by that the good short stories like Chekhov wrote. That's why I rate that second - it's because it demands a nearer absolute exactitude. You have less room to be slovenly and careless. There's less room in it for trash.

It took me a long time to know enough about writing to really write short stories. You can't just immerse yourself, as you do in a novel, and see where everything goes. Novels are a very flexible, accommodating form. Short stories aren't.

So, short stories have an even harder time, because they tend to get read during the day, between other things. They're interstitial. And yet the content of short stories tends to be very much "nighttime" content.

I did short film with Damian Lewis from Homeland, that was a really incredible experience. He's one of the best actors I've ever worked with. Even though that's a short film for Jaguar that's really, in essence, a commercial, it didn't feel like it, at all.

Anything that reduces fuel consumption and cuts down on greenhouse gasses is good news.

Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail - in other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form

Poverty is on the increase - due to welfare cuts - and demand for food banks has rocketed.

Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

The basis of almost every argument or conclusion I can make is the axiom that the short story can be anything the author decides it shall be;...In that infinite flexibility, indeed lies the reason why the short story has never been adequately defined.

They go the long way but we take the short cut Give me the blonde hair, long weave, short cut

Once, I thought I had a novel, and it turned out it was only a short story. I wrote about 800 pages, but it ended up being a short story. And if it ever happens to me again, I Will Go Insane.

Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.

My dad was a tough man. I think that would be putting it mildly. Short on praise, short on communications. Long on leading by example. Lots of integrity, and lots of passion for things. But he was a tough guy.

Life's too short to be super conservative but it's also too short to make it any shorter. I don't plan on dying early, but at the same time I don't plan on playing it so safe that I'll live to ninety.

I don't have the flattest stomach in the world; I wear looser cuts so I can eat a bowl of pasta if I want to.

The London 'Academy' has seen fit recently to scoff at the critics who have been exercising themselves ove rthe so-called art of the Short Story... But the new Short Story has gained more individuality. It supports the magazines and has invaded the newspapers

I make plays. In the air, on the ground, one cut or a million cuts - I don't think it matters.

By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against them, short-selling acts as a sort of policing system; legal short-sellers have been instrumental in helping expose firms like Enron and WorldCom.

What the Commission is seeking cuts the heart out of the strategic rationale of our deal.

The Bush tax cuts, they ought to be made permanent in my mind so there is certainty out there.

Tax cuts are one of many ways to stimulate the economy. Building infrastructure, for example, is another.

Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it.

This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.

In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only of short runs), the victims, themselves desperate and tainted with the culture that oppresses them, turn on other victims.

The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.

I believe in classics. I like keeping it simple, whether its colours, cuts, or the outfits I wear.

Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.

I use vaporizers a lot. It cuts down on the heat and the smoke. And for a singer that's not a bad idea.

The right wing has an ecosystem that is funded by billionaires who want tax cuts.

I was looking at a lot of experimental writers, and I was very intrigued by short-short fiction, writers who would write little things, what I call buttons now, little vignettes.

Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.

It's more useful to have knowledge about cuts of meat than a lot of money.

A man's longest purposes will be his best purposes. It is true, life is short and uncertain; but it is better to live on the short arc of a large circle than to describe the whole circumference of a small circle.

There is no other revolution except consciousness. It cuts the desires from the very roots and it brings freedom to you.

Conspiracy theories feed on opacity, and that's a longtime problem with short selling. Large long positions must be reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission in public filings, but not large short positions.

Whoever attacks a matter without knowledge cuts off his own nose.

I'd rather bleed with cuts of love than live without any scars.

We must unequivocally reject any cuts to Social Security or Medicare benefits.

I think to balance the budget, probably every federal department has to take cuts in my opinion.

Tax cuts create more jobs and this is something we as Republicans have to do a better job of marketing.

We might as well swing boys, because Stravinsky cuts us all.

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?

I will not support a federal budget that cuts funds for sanctuary cities, states, or universities.

I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

If you look at the copies of Churchill's speeches that have survived, they are heavily marked up. He was scrupulous about the impact of each word. He preferred short words and the repetition of short words. He knew everything about the techniques of rhetoric.