In short, Luck’s always to blame.
Trust me: all of us walk around and look at each other, and without saying it, we all know we’re thinking, ‘Really dude? Were still here!’ and pinch ourselves. Typically, careers have short life span, 10 years if you’re lucky, so what we’ve done is amazing.
Humans are ridiculous. We’re all pathetic strivers who will fall short. If you can accept that, it’s optimistic because you can shoot for the moon and know you’re never going to get there, and that’s OK.
Is advertising moral? It is part and parcel of the American free enterprise system… I challenge anybody to show any economic system that has done as much for so many in so short a time.
I’m very proud of my work at Watford in what has been a short period.
Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
Whatever advice you give, be short.
Don’t sell yourself short because without that you can’t go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can’t do anything else with that.
As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.
Long story short: E. L. James is a hero.
Just because you live 20 years or 100 years doesn’t make it less meaningful. They’re both short amount of times. So all we can do is just live in that time, whatever time we’re given.
I am not a great fan of serious, heavy writing. I prefer simple, short sentences, light on prose.
I’ve been spending quite a bit of time writing, acting, and making films. Because I’m doing all this extra writing, acting, and creating short comedy skits with my friends in improv shows, I feel like that’s really filled out my confidence on the mic.
I believe that if you don’t derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don’t come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don’t feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste.
The Court’s primary duty, in short, is not to minimize its role or avoid friction with the political branches, but to try as best it can to get the Constitution right.
I would like to say that I’m a walking poster board for feminism and women’s liberation, but there are things that I do in my life that deeply, deeply fall short of being a statement for being a strong woman. I am flawed as much as anyone else.
Personally, I’m an advocate for short engagements. Long sometimes means there is a reason for it. Two years engaged and no wedding… I’d be upset.
If you look beyond the short term violence and instability, you do see significant activities on the part of the Iraqi people that indicate they understand the commitment necessary to govern themselves. It’s not clear how they will do it, but it never is.
In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there’s always the kid who’s too short, the one who wears glasses, the kid who’s not athletic. Well, I was all three.
Short stories consume you faster. They’re connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they’re also a total joy.
I tried for a short time to be something I wasn’t, and had no success with it. It’s a practical solution to just be yourself.
Life is too short to give pain to others. I eat to the fullest, sleep long and make people laugh whole heartedly.
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
I walked in and inherited a management group that I didn’t know very well. They didn’t know me, and we had a very short window to put together a credible recovery plan.
From my anger, frustration, and hurt, I wrote the short story that would later become ‘The Hate U Give.’
I was raised with ‘Laurel and Hardy’ and ‘I Love Lucy’ and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it’s the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you’re performing in your bedroom for yourself.
I love experiencing other people’s realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time.
We’re all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.
The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. But I cleared everything. I had a lawyer in New York. And it was cleared for use in a short subject, not a feature.
‘Madea’ is a Southern term. It’s short for ‘mother dear.’ So there are a lot of Madeas out there.
The President has a short time to let people know that he is serious about getting spending under control.
When you’re a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you’re a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.
No man surely has so short a memory as the American.
I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower.
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
It’s taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That’s a job for the people who lived through it.
When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.
One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe’s soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise.
I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I’m writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.
Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you’re dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street – and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds – don’t have a bad memory. They don’t have any memory at all.
Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.
Art is eternal, but life is short.
The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what our contemporaries have left him of his desert.
I am all for the short and merry life.
However, people need to understand that it ain’t that deep to try and convince people of what your persona is. You are who you are, and what you are will show in time. What you aren’t can be hidden, but eventually it will come to light. Long story short: rappers should never take themselves too seriously.
The idea for ‘Conversations with Friends’ – two college students who befriend a married couple – struck me at first as a concept for a short story. I started to write it under the title ‘Melissa,’ and eventually, it got too long.
There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.
More and more, I am realizing that life is too short to do crap that doesn’t make you happy, and we only get one shot at it all.
I’m sure there’s somebody out there who doesn’t like Betty White because she’s short and has white hair.
Actresses generally aren’t allowed to have haircuts, because short hair isn’t considered as versatile.
One of my insecurities was my looks. I was short, cute and chubby, and Dad used to call me his ‘little fat sausage.’ But I always knew I had musical talent.
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.
Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
Every good tennis player has to have a short memory. Good or bad.
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
‘3’ was initially not a feature film but a short movie.
I’m an incurable optimist, and I’m a great believer in never looking back. Life is too short, and new challenges are exciting.
Welcome to the decline of America where, in six short decades, we have gone from aspiring to judge a man by the content of his character to aspiring that every reporter look just like politicians they cover.
My main goal was to be a cinematographer. I was making short films, and the plan was to keep uploading them on Twitter and build a fanbase there. One day, I just started making music for fun. When I made ‘Dat $tick,’ it blew up, and I saw the potential in that.
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.
For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.
Life is short. You have to be able to laugh at our pain or we never move on.
I’m a fan of short horror fiction… in fact, the most memorable horror I’ve read is of the short variety… but I have a hard time pulling it off myself.
