There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.
That’s the beauty of short films; their strength lies in delivering a message creatively and simply.
For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
Possibly the fact that I was physically quite feeble, a relatively short little fellow, attracted me to that idea of a very authoritative and aggressive version of Conservative politics.
Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!
George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that’s what I’m trying to do.
It seems older people maximize their well-being more – they start to realize that life is short.
There’s not enough time to be disrespecting… Life is too short.
All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it’s a sign of security.
Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
I’ve heard that our greatest cross to carry is ourselves – how gravely we fall short.
I personally believe the film turns out better when shot in one short schedule, plus it doesn’t stress the actors.
When you’re writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can’t swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within those parameters, you have lots of freedom because you’re writing for the next day.
I wasn’t sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I played my first Test match. Short balls in one-day cricket, I have never thought of just defending.
No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.
To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.
Bitcoin, in the short or even long term, may turn out be a good investment in the same way that anything that is rare can be considered valuable. Like baseball cards. Or a Picasso.
Life is too short not to do a little practical joking.
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Part of what made ‘The Bling Ring’ such a fun, freeing experience was that we got to wear these really over-the-top clothes we’d never pick in real life – like for the nightclub scenes, we’d have on these really short, really tight dresses. But you know what – I actually learned how to walk in heels on that set!
What we do to our native Australians, our own indigenous people, is nothing short of horrific.
You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.
What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun.
In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.
The CH radical is a very reactive radical which, under most conditions, has a very short lifetime.
If you’re not having fun – I don’t care what you’re doing – don’t do it. Move on. Find something else, life’s too short.
In short, software is eating the world.
I’m keeping the pixie. I hope I inspire people… it’s really cool to have short hair.
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
People who have gone through trauma need help with logistics in the short term.
Our short film ‘Bareilly Ki Beti’ is inspired from the incident which occurred in Bareilly, where a couple while digging a grave for their stillborn found a live baby girl buried two to three feet down. She was rushed to the hospital and she survived.
Life is short. You’ve got to live your dreams.
I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.
If you don’t do what’s best for your body, you’re the one who comes up on the short end.
I fear that the day I die, I am going to die without accomplishing what I have in my mind. Life is too short, and a lot of things can happen, and I am really keen to see it with my own eyes – and that is why I am in a hurry.
Life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest.
Love who you want to love. Life is short. Nobody’s going to hate you for it.
I did a film called ‘Nightfall,’ based on Isaac Asimov life, which was directed by an American director. However it was a short film.
A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it’s going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that’s a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you’re going to actually live.
Life is short. I’m 47 years old. I’ve got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I’ve made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.
It’s good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don’t think I can handle being here all the time, it’s pretty nutty.
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.
I think that the idea that I’m writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There’s even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.
The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
Life is too short to just go through the motions.
The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.
Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
I want to do everything. That’s my problem. Life is short, and I hate the idea of turning down anything. You never know what interesting experience might happen.
Life’s too short and too complicated for people behind desks, people behind masks to be ruining other people’s lives, initiating force against other people’s lives on the basis of their income, their color, their class, their religious beliefs, whatever.
I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid.
You will enjoy the TV and radio forecast much more if you stop taking it as advice and simply treat it as a short poem about the weather.
When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.
Cricket, like all sport, offers glory to few and a lifetime of it to even fewer. For the investment it demands, it offers short careers that end when people in other professions are starting to flourish.
There’s an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.
Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.
I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into ‘things that I like’ and ‘things that I must do.’ You’re only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it.
I was just a big guy running down with a big, deep pocket and little short stick putting it against my chest.
I look forward to the spring vegetables because the season is so short. Mushrooms, edible foraged herbs, wild leeks, early season asparagus.
That straight man character is a short trip between comedy and drama in a project, so I can play the comedic beat on the same page as a dramatic beat. It gives me a lot of freedom as an actor to play scenes in multiple ways because I don’t play the clown, nor do I play someone who is particularly maudlin.
Everyone should be able to express themselves in the way that best suits them – life is too short to spend it unhappy.
From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed.
