Our lives are miserable, laborious, and short. – George Orwell Animal Farm. Chapter 1. Old Major, who is a wise and persuasive pig, addresses the animals.
A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process. – Henry Rollins
A lot of people didn’t realize that with the carpet being pulled out from under me in such a short time frame I got to such a bad place. – Hulk Hogan
I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel. – Gay Talese
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. – Henry Miller
If we take into account the existence of our planet, we have to recognise that we are guests that spend a short and very determined period in this world, and all we leave behind is nuclear waste. – Gunter Grass
When George asked me to be the prequels, it was the same kind of meeting – it was very short and to the point. It was nice to see him after a long time, and we met in a hotel room. – Ian McDiarmid
I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher’s pet. – Howard Stringer
I guess because I’m so young, I m not sure of what lies ahead for me. I’m more into going the route of producing and directing. I just made a little short film. I’m more excited about going the route of doing a Drew Barrymore or… what’s the one from ‘Star Wars?’ – Heather Morris
I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would’ve liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn’t actually have that many scenes. – Helena Bonham Carter
The whole object of the players’ association is to try and make sure that any individual is able to capitalise on his ability, particularly in football, which is a very short career. – Gordon Taylor
I’m nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I’m on the wrong end of a short sale. – Gary McCord
I like working in children’s books because it gives rise to such a variety of jobs. One month it may be a picture book, the next a retelling, the next a play, a short story or the start of the next novel. – Geraldine McCaughrean
Certainly a curtain has never fallen too soon for me. Every play is too long, even the short ones. Every concert, every film, every television programme the same. – Howard Jacobson
In my judgment, if we had pursued this course, the zones would have been of short duration. England would have been compelled to take her mines out of the North Sea in order to get any supplies from our country. – George William Norris
We should perceive that man’s period of historical existence, a period so short that his physical constitution has not been altered in the slightest degree, is insufficient to allow of any considerable mental change. – H. P. Lovecraft
But to make a long story short, I decided that I was going to run, and I announced that I was going to run for president in Florida, I would be the favorite son from Florida, and that would stop Johnson and Kennedy from dividing up the state. – George Smathers
Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules. – Gagan Narang
Every new medium has, within a short time of its introduction, been condemned as a threat to young people. Pulp novels would destroy their morals, TV would wreck their eyesight, video games would make them violent. – Hanna Rosin
I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book. – Hilary Duff
I only tour in short bursts, I’m only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two. – Harry Connick, Jr.
