1521 Short Quotes for You to Enjoy

I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me. Bruce Coville

Best Me Writing Think Carried Out Some More Fact Tend Writer Come Got Short Just In Fact Form Stories Short Stories Short Story Story Naturally Novel Novels Away Started

I started trying to be a writer and failed for years. I tried novels, short stories, sitcoms, movies, plays, anything. And then, to support myself, I had millions of jobs on the fringes of show business. Bruce Eric Kaplan

Myself Business Jobs Tried Writer Had Support Failed Years Trying Sitcoms Short Stories Anything Short Stories Movies Then Show Show Business Novels Started Millions Plays

I was short with my fastball and breaking ball. Bruce Sutter

Ball Short Breaking Fastball

There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots. Burt Rutan

Time People Wonderful Few Everybody Hundreds Hey Airplane Thousands Brothers Only Paris Wright Wright Brothers Marvelous Had Countries Period Said Pilots Years Time Period Few People Short Happened The Wright Brothers Little Flew Things Four Four-Year Early Started Flown

I think everybody is always selling me short, and then I always prove them wrong. CM Punk

Me Think Everybody Wrong Always Prove Selling Short Them Then

This whole thing is - our window to be able to fight and make money is very short. It's a short window to be able to take advantage of this and make as much money as we can and save it for the future. When you're not fighting, and the money's not coming in, you can't do that, and that's the part that sucks about this job. Cain Velasquez

Future You Fight Money Job Take Advantage Fighting Our Able Window About Take Part Advantage Make Coming Very Short As Much Money Much Whole Sucks Thing Save

I didn't fall into the category of the 'classic Bond girl.' I had short hair - and no Bond girl before me ever had. They put me in a wig at the beginning of the film, and then had my character cut her hair to pretend to be someone else. That was to explain why my hair was short. Carey Lowell

Character Me Short Hair Girl Hair Fall Before Beginning Wig Else Pretend Classic Someone Had Put Category Short Explain Cut Then Film Why Ever Her Bond Bond Girl

When I met Eric Clapton, I was a very young girl. I was 20 years old. And we were linked for a very short time, and then we became friends. And then we lost touch, which I'm really sorry about. Carla Bruni

Time Old Girl Sorry Met Lost Young Clapton About Touch Became Were Eric Years Eric Clapton Linked Friends Very Short Young Girl Short Time Which Then Really

If I am training on a holiday, most likely nobody else is - and that gives me the edge. If I'm supposed to run for 20 minutes and I get back and it's only been 19:34, I'm going to jog in a circle for 26 more seconds. I'm never going to cut it short. Carli Lloyd

Me Training Circle Edge Else Seconds Back Run Jog Minutes More Only Gives Never Nobody Nobody Else Supposed Most Likely Am Been Get Going Short Holiday Cut

We have to be aware that fossil fuel energy sources have an expiry date. A timeframe of 30, 40 or 50 years can seem a long time to get rewards for economic policy, but it's only a short time for implementing a new energy policy. Carlo Rubbia

Time Long Long Time Energy Seem Only Date Economic Economic Policy Implementing New Policy Years Sources Get Short Rewards Short Time Energy Policy Fuel Energy Sources Fossil Fossil Fuel Aware

As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term. Carlos Ghosn

Care Long Take Take Care Long-Term Term Mid Short Short-Term CEO

CompUSA was a bad decision. We stayed too much with CompUSA, and we stayed too short with Apple. Carlos Slim

Decision Too Much Too Bad Stayed Short Much Apple

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative. Carmen Laforet

Words Thread Write Tight Narrative Short

In general, the hedge funds were clobbered by the 1969 bear market, ending up in many cases with records that were worse than those put together by aggressive mutual funds denied the luxury of short sales. Carol Loomis

The 1969 experience has been a rude awakening for many hedge-fund investors and has left some of them with strong reservations about the whole concept. For the first time in their relatively short history, the funds are not growing: in fact, some have suffered large withdrawals of capital, and a few have actually folded. Carol Loomis

Time History Experience Strong Rude First Few Relatively Has-Been Folded Some About Fact Investors Concept First Time Been Left Short In Fact Them Capital Large Many Whole Awakening Reservations Growing Suffered Actually Funds

It wasn't until I started to read short stories - by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, John Updike... Eudora Welty - that I became excited about the possibilities of writing. Carol Windley

People Writing Alice Possibilities John About Excited Like Until Read Became Short Stories Short Stories Gallant Started

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker. Caroline B. Cooney

Write Because Got Quicker Short Stories Decided Short Stories Rejected

Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our mothers. They wait for us, watch out for us, are completely fascinated by everything we do. Caroline Knapp

Life Wait Become Older Our Everything Out More Like Concentrated Mothers Dogs Version Get Human Short Short Life Spans Us Much Human Life Fascinated Watch

I think housing is not a simple commodity because we are so in short supply of land. So the government has a role to play in providing housing - decent housing and affordable housing - for the people of Hong Kong. Carrie Lam

Government Affordable Housing People Simple Think Hong Kong Supply For The People Because Housing Kong Providing Role Affordable Short Commodity Decent Land Play

If you sell yourself short before you even start, you'll never know how far you could have gone. Ambition is a wonderful thing and has gotten me farther than I ever thought I'd go. Carrie Vaughn

Me You Yourself Wonderful Thought Before Ambition Gone Could Never Know How How Far Gotten Go Sell Than Wonderful Thing Short Far Farther Even Ever Thing Start

Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter. Casey Kasem

Songs Longer Became Getting Short Then Interestingly Used Now

I do Twitter, but I'm still not great on it - I'm not good at writing short little jokes, so my Twitter's not really a jokey thing. Cecily Strong

Good Great Jokes Writing Twitter Still Short Little Really Thing

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