Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Tosches

The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.

Martina Hingis

The older you get, the more you learn.

Madonna Ciccone

To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.

Michael Kiwanuka

Ive been more single than not in my short life.

Abraham Lincoln

If you have never failed you have never lived.

Ports could be a bottleneck in the short term.

Louisa May Alcott

Never use a long word when a short one will do

Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.

On short notice, we're not going to get a lot of people.

Certainly, in the short term, there will be some opportunity.

Sam Cassell

I don't think he tipped it. I just shot it short. I shot it short over a 7-foot guy.

She's his own daughter. He (his father) is in recovery, but at the very least, she has shortened his life.

She?s been sick and she can only play in short spurts because she has trouble breathing.

Winston Churchill

Old expressions are the best, and short ones even better

Alan Woods

Short term, this is going to be bad. Long term, this may be good.

Jim Elliot

He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitible? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things.' Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame. But flame is transient, often short lived. Canst thou bear this, my soul - short life? ... Make me thy fuel, Flame of God.

James Cameron

I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I hope you live a life you're proud of.

Henry Miller

Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.

Cassandra Clare

Vampires, fey folk, werewolves, Shadowhunters, and demons - these things made sense to Magnus. But the mundane world - it seemed to have no pattern, no form. Their quicksilver politics. Their short lives...

Cassandra Clare

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

Jet Li

Love is more powerful than kicking ass.

George Weinberg

Every man wants to feel that his woman would love him apart from anything else.

He's staying simple and within himself. He has a short swing that is working.

How does someone just start drooling? Chase? Were you wearing your short shorts?

C. S. Lewis

I came alive when I started loving you.

H. P. Lovecraft

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.

Christopher Eccleston

I loved playing [the Doctor], and taking part in the basic essence and message of the series which is, it's a short life, seize it, and live it as fully as you can. Care for others. Be respectful of all other life forms, regardless of colour or creed. To be part of that was fantastic.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Nowhere has truth such a short life as in Sicily; a fact has scarcely happened five minutes before its genuine kernel has vanished, been camouflaged, embellished, disfigured, squashed, annihilated by imagination and self interest; shame, fear, generosity, malice, opportunism, charity, all the passions, good as well as evil, fling themselves onto the fact and tear it to pieces; very soon it has vanished altogether.

Jeff Vandermeer

The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required reading for anyone who loves short fiction.

Ian Rankin

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.

James Dean

Forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably.

Jeanne Calment

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.