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The Great Gatsby
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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

Short Quotes

I thought, I’m only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?

– John Templeton

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

I get up in the morning and do a seven-minute yoga workout. I know the most likely time I’m going to do something is when I first get up, and I make it short because, like you, I don’t really want to do that first thing in the morning.

– Mehmet Oz

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

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

In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation or decreased economic growth.

– Martin Feldstein

The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor’s attention enough for her to finish your story.

– Nancy Kress

Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.

– Joni Eareckson Tada

I’ve always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer, I was reading short stories – there were certain writers where I just felt like they could do in a short story what so many writers needed a whole novel to do, and that was really inspiring to me.

– Molly Antopol

Life’s too short not to laugh about yourself and the cards you’re dealt.

– Mark Zupan

Too often the word ‘prayer’ induces guilt because we don’t do enough of it. After all, I’ve never met anyone who said they pray too much! All of us fall short. And we often feel like our prayers fall flat.

– Mark Batterson

People often ask writers where they get their inspiration, and for me, the short answer is that I haven’t a clue; I’m just grateful that I get them.

– Michelle Paver

A lot of people stop short. They don’t actually die but they say, ‘Right I’m old, and I’m going to retire,’ and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.

– Mary Wesley

One of the pleasant duties of America’s most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country.

– Nick Clooney

Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me “old,” when I would NEVER call him “short and fat?” Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend – and maybe someday that will happen!

– Donald Trump

I was a short, chubby kid, pretty shy.

– Matthew Lewis

Life’s too short not to have fun with what you wear.

– Ireland Baldwin

I don’t want to be an action star; action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.

– Jackie Chan

In several short years, Obama has fundamentally shifted the balance away from the individual and toward government, and has altered the national psyche from self-reliance to ever-growing reliance on government.

– Monica Crowley

A short telomere represents a persistent and non-repairable damage to the cells, which is able to prevent their division or regeneration.

– María Blasco Marhuenda

My nickname used to be Moses – still is Moses – for a long time, and people just call me Mo for short.

– Nelly

I get sort of short with people and start grumbling and clearing my throat – in honor of my father – when I’m impatient. It’s very charming.

– Maria Bamford

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

– John C. Maxwell

I can sketch up a storm, and I’m very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span.

– Michael Kors

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

– Philip Roth

Life is too short to blend in.

– Paris Hilton

As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled with elliptical answers to straight questions and simple answers to complicated ones.

– Neil Gaiman

Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the ‘Zhuangzi’ is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of enigmatic short stories. It’s a strange feeling to laugh at a joke written by someone in the 4th century B.C.

– Patrick Stump

‘Love’ is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like ‘move.’ The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem in which the poet addresses his adored both as ‘love’ and as ‘guv’ – a perfectly decent solution once, but only once, in a while.

– James Fenton

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

– Jack London

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