1525 Short Quotes for You to Enjoy

I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor. Patrick deWitt

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It is truly bracing and instructive to contemplate the End Times - at least at safe remove, in the pages of fiction - especially as the world beyond our hearths churns and convulses unknowably, yet perhaps just short of ultimate disaster. Paul Di Filippo

World Remove Our Contemplate Disaster Perhaps Beyond Safe Least Ultimate Truly End Times Short Just Fiction Pages

In short, industrialism is over. Paul Hawken

Over Short

It's easy to be a short-term hero. It is very easy for me to get tremendous results very short term, get that translated into compensation, and be off sailing in the Bahamas. But the goal for this company - and it's very difficult to do - the goal is to follow a four- or five-year process. Paul Polman

When Marty Short and I get together, I sit down at the piano and play the score of 'Godspell.' Paul Shaffer

Together Sit Down Marty Piano Score Get Get Together Short Play

When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books. Paul Theroux

Peace Phone Made Books Corps Phone Call Never Wrote Make Call Another Uganda Years Six Short Africa Stories Short Stories Central Peace Corps Letters Four Two

I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal. Paul Wellstone

Liberal Short Jewish

My sister was three years older than me, and she was like the stone-cold '70s fox. I looked like a short Polish farm woman, and so our journals were wildly different. Paula Pell

Me Woman Three Sister Farm Older Our Wildly Journals Like Looked She Polish Were Years Than Short Different Fox

The two-piece ball I switched to spun too much. One shot would go the distance I thought it should, then the next one would fall short, and then the next one would go long. Payne Stewart

Too Much Thought Long Fall Too Distance Would Ball Go Spun Short Then Much Shot Next Should Switched

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps. Peggy Noonan

Love Emotions Fog Kind Pluck Attempt Raw Most Leaps Because Still Susceptible Short Order Moving Meaning Ragged Speech

In space for a short time, I think most people could survive that. If you're sending an average person who's healthy for a short period of time, I think that's quite doable. Peggy Whitson

Time You People Space Healthy Think Could Most Period Survive Person Sending Quite Short Short Period Short Time Average Average Person

Shows were very different then - even as the headliner we did a very short set by today's standards and sound systems were really primitive. But the girls made it all worthwhile! Peter Asher

Today Made Girl Systems Worthwhile Primitive Sound Were Very Did Short Different Then Really Standards Even Shows Set

In short, the hunt for bin Laden could not have been accomplished without every form of American intelligence-gathering. Peter Bergen

Every Hunt Could Without Been Accomplished American Short Form Bin

Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying' had an immense effect on me, and most of my novels bear the burn marks of this experience, those short chapters with their conflicting points of view, truth expressed by multiple perspectives. The other attractive thing about 'As I Lay Dying' was the way it gave rich voices to the poor. Peter Carey

Truth Me Experience Rich Other Gave Way Chapters Faulkner Marks Those Immense About Bear Lay Voices Points Had Most Attractive Effect Short Burn Dying Conflicting Poor Perspectives View Multiple Expressed Novels Thing

It shouldn't be a Higgs field. If it's anybody's, it should be Goldstone field, I think. When Nambu wrote his short paper in 1960, Jeffrey Goldstone of Cambridge University, who was visiting Cern, heard about it. He then wrote a paper which was conceptually similar to what Nambu had done, but a simpler model. Peter Higgs

I really love the idea of a short dress for prom! Peyton List

Love Prom Dress Idea Short Really

I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult. Philip Green

Time Difficult Back Only Had Like Department Department Stores Short Stores Short Time Which Personally Chain Found Lewis

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