Top 35 Short-Lived Quotes

The naked thing was short-lived. It was only around for about six months because we thought it was shocking. Once people expected us to do it we kind of never did it again.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

One of my previous incarnations is as a question writer, so I’d worked on shows like ‘The Weakest Link’ and a couple of very short-lived ITV series.

I enjoyed my time in Houston but it was short-lived and it really didn’t make a huge impression on my life.

So making the choice to be involved in the pro wrestling industry is always looked at as a short-lived choice, and there are very few and far in between opportunities to continue a career in wrestling if your time is up as a wrestler, as a female.

It’s a short-lived career and I think I am in my prime now. I’m 34-0 and I want to go to 35-0 in spectacular fashion, and then the world is my oyster.

A lot of my favorite battle rappers didn’t have that much commercial success, so I figured I might as well figure out how to make songs, because I don’t want to have a short-lived career or a career that is confined in just that realm of music.

If people recognize me from ‘The Vampire Diaries,’ they just give me that look that’s like, ‘I think I know you. I think I saw you boxing in 1912, but I’m not sure,’ because it was such a short-lived run.

Fame is short-lived, and you’re the last to know when you are no longer hot.

Abstract Expressionism – the first American movement to have a worldwide influence – was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you’ll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Being a model, you know, it’s a short-lived vocation.

The policies and laws executed by the grand mufti in Libya, the long-term agenda in the short-lived Morsi government in Egypt, and by ISIS in its ideal Islamist Ummah are incompatible with the Constitution, period.

A significant U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan has been continuous since October 2001, and President Obama’s short-lived ‘surge’ in 2009 was a continuation of his predecessor’s buildup there.

My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.

If, for a moment, it seemed that September 11th could be identified with Iraq, the illusion was short-lived.

I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary. That means eliminating everything that is modish because this kind of thing is only short-lived.

I try to inhabit each of the characters as fully as I can, however short-lived they are. But most of my show happens offstage.

To have a dutiful family, the father’s principle of rule must be love, not fear. His sway must be gentle, or he will have only an unwilling and short-lived obedience.

Fame can take a toll on your personal life. Half of us were in short-lived marriages or not married at all. When you are doing something you love so much that you once did for free, and then someone pays you to do it, it’s like a blessing. But you have to be prepared for it.

Mixtapes are always small scale to me – they never get taken seriously, and they’re always short-lived.

We’ve accounted for 95 percent of all the stars in the Milky Way. The other 5 percent are big, bright stars – the kind that dominate the night sky, but are lamentably both rare and short-lived. If biology’s your thing, you can forget those guys.

I want people to know me for my singing. I’ve never been searching for a label of being a fashion plate or a top model. That’s a thing that’s very short-lived, and it’s dealing with a superficial level of this which doesn’t really appeal to me.

One of the reasons I wrote ‘Airborn’ was that I’d fallen in love with the great passenger airships which flew in the ’20s and ’30s. Their time was short-lived. They were frail, they tended to crash; and they could never be as fast, safe and efficient as the airplanes that replaced them.

The first acting part I ever got was a guest spot on ‘Chicago Hope’ playing a security guard. I thought, ‘Oh, this is going to be cool.’ But a little bit later, I got a vague part on this short-lived show called ‘Marshall Law’ with Arsenio Hall and Sammo Hung. It was a poor man’s ‘Rush Hour.’

Of course, people have tried to stereotype me… But it’s very short-lived if you realise that you’re only as new as your newest film… You have to look beyond the period of initial reactions and recognise that there’s a bigger body of work and an effort to do something bigger.

Unprincipled governments are inevitably unstable, unsuccessful and short-lived.

I constantly know that showbiz is going to be short-lived, you have to grab every opportunity as well as you can.

Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand.

Going to the gym and looking for a specific result is a short-lived existence, as opposed to going to the gym and adopting it as a lifestyle. Develop a routine, because it’s much harder to break it if you have one. If you have no routine, you have nothing to break, so discipline goes out the window.

This is a very short-lived career. I have to do what’s best for myself. I have to do what’s best for my career and being on top for as long as possible.

The career span for athletes is very short-lived. So you aren’t being, perhaps, the smartest person if you don’t take care of your family when you’re able to.

Sponsorships and marketing are oftentimes pretty short-lived. From a company’s standpoint, they’re often not looking to do tremendously long contracts. They’re always trying to catch the next big thing.

The whole basketball world, it’s a fantasy and it’s short-lived.