Top 1200 Short Temper Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

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.

I'm not someone that's gonna get up in your face all the time and all that kind of stuff. I mean, I don't think I have a temper.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute," said the student. "So is the hydrogen bomb," I replied. "But think of the damage it produces!

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.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

A trail through the mountains, if used, becomes a path in a short time, but, if unused, becomes blocked by grass in an equally short time.

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.

The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity.

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.

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

My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away.

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.

Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.

On an odd occasion, you'll still find me shouting at referees when I've become increasingly frustrated, but I've tried to control my temper.

Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself.

It is simply that in all life on earth as in all good agriculture there are no short-cuts that by-pass Nature and the nature of man himself and animals, trees, rocks and streams. Every attempt at a formula, a short-cut, a panacea, always ends in negation and destruction.

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.

Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs.

I was born with a terrible temper, but this is the way of expressing myself. I flare up, but it goes quickly, and I don't remember it long.

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.

A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

Seven years is a short time in the history of a country's democracy. But in this short time, people of Bhutan have developed faith in the institutions of democracy.

Even to get Yahya Khan to reason was an impossible task - it only made you lose your temper.

I've never been short of putting high expectations on myself; I've never been short of saying I want to win a Stanley Cup.

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.

Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.

I don't have an explosive temper. People seem to think that - maybe somewhere lives the lion in my cage. But I'm actually kind of goofy.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

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

A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

Anger is the ultimate troublemaker. I feel you can express a strong disapproval or dislike of an object without losing your temper.

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?

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.

The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.

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 am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.

Goodness is generous and diffusive; it is largeness of mind, and sweetness of temper,--balsam in the blood, and justice sublimated to a richer spirit.

I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk.

The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again

Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.

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.

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

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.

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Leftists are fighting back against Trump not with policy differentials, but rather with insane rhetoric and temper tantrums.

I have my own grown-up versions of temper tantrums, too. I have a hard time not getting hurt when my kids have meltdowns.

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.

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.

Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.

First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe (at all events when viva voce) worse than useless.

Trump doesn't have a plan. There's a screw loose, and he's got a really short fuse. Do you really want the leader of the free world with his finger on the button to have a short fuse?

If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.

Everyone has a temper, but in Sweden, no one throws a racquet or screams. We show more manners and common sense. This is a game, not war.

I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show.

The combination between the speed, personality, and being able to temper your emotions in both directions is a great ingredient.