Top 1200 Short Pants Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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.

I hate long pants.

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

Home is where the pants aren't

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

I live by the seat of my pants.

His voice wore no pants.

Up with skirts, down with pants!'

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

Where are your pants, son?

I have special pants I wear at Christmas.

I live in rural New Hampshire, and we are, frankly, short on people who are black, gay, Jewish, and Hispanic. In fact, we're short on people. My town has a population of 301.

Tight pants are just uncomfortable.

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.

I'm definitely a seat-of-the-pants writer.

I went up a pants size during my pregnancy.

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.

I am anti-pants.

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

I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.

I used my pants to illustrate.

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.

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.

I always say I'm not going to care this time, but I always do. Like, I did one this season called Tax Man with Martin Short, which was like, "Are you kidding me? Doing a pilot with Martin Short? Like, career high." And I just assumed, because it's Martin Short, like, "How are they not going to pick that up?" But they didn't.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

My mom makes my dress pants.

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

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.

Spinners are increasingly starting to bowl short, which means they are taking the straight boundaries away. When you play Test match cricket, you can't bowl short.

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

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

I don't like tight pants on guys.

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 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.

With short hair you begin to crave pearl necklaces, long earrings, and a variety of sunglasses. Short hair removes obvious femininity and replaces it with style.

I've been short all my life. And if anyone wonders what my dying wish will be, they can stop wondering. That will be easy. I'll just tell them, 'I'll have a short bier.'

In college, I discovered the Joyce Carol Oates short story 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' which is definitely one of the most incredibly unnerving, frightening short stories ever written.

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.

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.

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

I wear frayed khaki pants.

God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.

I'm too tasteful for my pants.

I've learned to dance with a hand in my pants.

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.

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.

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.

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 love short stories - reading and writing them. The best short stories distill all the potency of a novel into a small but heady draught. They are perfect reading material for the bus or train or for a lunchtime break. Everything extraneous has been strained off by the author. The best short stories pack the heft of any novel, yet resonate like poetry.

I operate by the seat of my pants.

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.'

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 fly from the seat of my pants, basically.