Short Quotes - page 6

You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either. (Peter Maxwell Davies)
Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody. View quote
Peabo Bryson
Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts. View quote
Roger Staubach
Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there. View quote
Sergio Aragones
Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order. View quote
Tobias Wolff
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. View quote
Tom T. Hall
I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time. View quote
Wyclef Jean
For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
My poems please the brave: My poems, short and sincere, Have the force of steel Which forges swords. View quote
José Martí
For liberals, the observation that 'the peasants are revolting' is a pun. For conservatives, it is cause for uncharacteristic optimism. No matter how far the ideological pendulum swings in the short term, in the end the bedrock common sense of the American people will prevail. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans. (Candice Bergen)
Sex is the refuge of the mindless. And the more mindless the woman, the more deeply embedded in the male "culture," in short, the nicer she is, the more sexual she is. The nicest women in our "society" are raving sex maniacs. View quote
Valerie Solanas
To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity. View quote
Clarence Thomas
Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life? View quote
Audrey Niffenegger
Life is short, but the years are long. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish and short. So is his style. View quote
Stella Gibbons
The report [by a UN commission on Darfur] demonstrates beyond all doubt that the last two years have been little short of hell on earth for our fellow human beings in Darfur. View quote
Kofi Annan
One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beautiful sounds, to know how to play long notes and short notes and to [attain] certain unlimited dexterity... A well formed technique, it seems to me, [is one] that can control and vary a beautiful sound quality. View quote
Frédéric Chopin
You already know when I'm writing, so don't be surprised if it's short and dry, because I'm too hungry to write anything fat. View quote
Frédéric Chopin
In short, the greatest contribution to real security that science can make is through the extension of the scientific method to the social sciences and a solution of the problem of complete avoidance of war. View quote
Edward Condon
Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short. (Henry David Thoreau)
Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste your time with music that is trite or ignoble. Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Saharas of musical trash. View quote
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies it is often closer to socialism than true liberalism; and with its traditionalistic, anti-intellectual, and often mystical propensities it will never, except in short periods of disillusionment, appeal to the young and all those others who believe that some changes are desirable if this world is to become a better place. View quote
Friedrich Hayek
Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law. View quote
A. V. Dicey