Top 740 Short Quotes

My father is best known for his light comedies, and I’m best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.
Vincent Cassel
Life is too short not to have pasta, steak, and butter.
Iman
If you have other gods before the Lord, your heart will be turned away from serving the only true and living God, who requires the whole heart, the undivided affections. All the heart, all the soul, all the mind, and all the strength, does God require. He will accept of nothing short of this.
Ellen G. White
Every few years, I change my look for the simple reason

Every few years, I change my look for the simple reason that I get bored. If you Google Image me, you will see so many different looks: long hair, short hair, clean shaven, beard, etc.
Johnny Iuzzini
I’ve lived three lifetimes in my short time.
Fran Drescher
Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact? If you don’t have a great idea of your own, there are plenty of great teams that need you – unknown startups and established teams in giant companies alike.
Justin Rosenstein
It was a huge shock. I’ve never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.
Camilla Belle
In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called!
Francisco de Quevedo
You only live a short time… and you are dead a long time.
Johan Huizinga
I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don’t. When I first started writing, I just started writing a novel. It’s a hard way to learn to write. I don’t recommend it to my students, but it just happens that way for some of us.
Andrea Barrett
There’s not a lot of guys in this league who are tough for me to guard. It’s a short list.
Marcus Smart
Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.
Jim Harrison
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
George Eliot
Standardized tests don’t care if you’re white or black, short or tall, or even the rate at which you learned the course material. At the end of the day, all it cares about is whether you know what you’re supposed to know. It can’t be cheated, bent, or bargained with.
Steven Crowder
Life is too short for a long story.
Mary Wortley Montagu
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche
The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama’s ‘Dreams From My Father’ is Jimmy Carter’s short campaign autobiography, ‘Why Not the Best?,’ published in 1975.
Jonathan Raban
Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you’ve got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.
Anne Dudley
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
Anthony Trollope
Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
Henry David Thoreau
Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
Kate Winslet
Life is too short to not have oysters and champagne sometimes.
Christie Brinkley
In 2017, Kante has been fantastic and is almost two players at times. He covers every blade of grass and he’s not short of technique. He would get in any team because there’s room for that type of player no matter what system you play or level you play at.
Graeme Souness
Once a popular Alaska governor with a modest record of accomplishment, Palin could conceivably revive her reputation in this era of short memories. But it’s hard to imagine her name atop the GOP ballot in 2016, when a cast of heavyweights who sat out 2012 will be vying for the nomination.
Ron Fournier
Life is short, so there is no reason why you shouldn’t live it to the fullest expression of yourself.
Coy Bowles
I’d never taken a job purely for money – I felt that would kill me – but I was afraid that I was heading that way. Then, my brother passing away was the final thing that kicked me over. It reminded me that life is short, and you’d better do what you want while you have a chance.
Mark Ruffalo
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
Mae West
By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.
Charles Saatchi
Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.
Viggo Mortensen
Like pretty much every short story writer, I submitted to every market under the sun and hoped for the best. The rejection letters I’ve collected over the years can probably make a book of their own.
Ken Liu
Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.
Alex Rodriguez
Glamour, for me, is looking good. It has nothing to do with short clothes.
Catherine Tresa
Live honestly to a higher note. Life is too short. So, do the best you can and live your life to a higher note.
Kimora Lee Simmons
There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
Lord Byron
Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and ot

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.
Neil Gaiman
Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don’t forget when you leave why you came.
Adlai Stevenson II
In short I will part with anything for you but you.
Mary Wortley Montagu
When man possesses a good, sound body that does not overpower him nor disturb the equilibrium in him, he possesses a divine gift. In short, a good constitution facilitates the rule of the soul over the body, but it is not impossible to conquer a bad constitution by training.
Maimonides
A short film is not a shortened feature film. It has a soul of its own.
Karthik Subbaraj
I live in Harlem, New York City. I am unmarried. I like ‘Tristan,’ goat’s milk, short novels, lyric poems, heat, simple folk, boats and bullfights; I dislike ‘Aida,’ parsnips, long novels, narrative poems, cold, pretentious folk, buses and bridges.
Langston Hughes
They say anything can happen in a short series. I just didn’t expect it to be that short.
Al Lopez
If it’s going to make you happy, go for it – life is short.
Tiffany Darwish
In short, Republicans under Trump have finally destroyed the New Deal, turning the government over to a small cadre of wealthy businessmen, unhampered, to run the country as they see fit.
Heather Cox Richardson
I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.
Wyclef Jean
The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it’s an example of freedom from religion.
Tom Wolfe
I’m the perfect kind of personality for making YouTube videos. I deal in short attention span theater. I do wild things.
Steve-O
‘Neon Future’ is, in short, a positive outlook on human progress and technology, looking forward to a bright, colorful utopia. It’s embracing the future and looking toward the future in a more optimistic way.
Steve Aoki
No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
Ira Hayes
We humans are still a very primitive culture, and it’s one of the traps we’ve fallen into over the course of our lives – to forget our history. That’s why George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ is so profound. It chronicles our short memory.
RuPaul
Life’s too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.
Belinda Carlisle
You can think you’ve made it and yet the next day’s press will always be waiting for you, the public will always ask more of you. In short, you can always do better!
Giorgio Armani
There’s so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there’s no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I’m 24, I don’t have a family, I don’t need to make tons of money, and I’m not dying to get famous.
Tobey Maguire
I’m not perfect. And who knows how many times I’ve fallen short. We all fall short. That’s the amazing thing about the grace of God.
Tim Tebow
Life is too short to be a boring company.
Andrew Mason
People will think being the daughter of a celebrity is a very different life but surprisingly, we lead a very normal life and that’s what people will realize when they read my short stories.
Aishwarya R. Dhanush
Believe in yourself, not only in swimming, but in life itself. You always have to have fun. You have to have an open mind. If you’re not enjoying it, don’t do it. Life’s too short.
Debbie Meyer
Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want. You can choose to dumb yourself down and not express yourself just so you can fit in, just so people won’t dislike you.
Gerard Way
The days are long, but the years are short.
Gretchen Rubin
I said, I’m on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don’t want to be known always as the silly ‘Scrubs’ guy… So part of me was like, You know what? Life’s short. Let’s go for it.
Zach Braff
I have done some short pieces that are not horror.
Richard King
I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.
Smedley Butler