Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was ‘Romeo & Juliet’? How long were they together? A few days. – Jesse Harris
Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows. – John Buchanan Robinson
I remember when I was like 19 years old and I started a desk calendar company to pay for my first short film, just so I could say one day that my daddy didn’t pay for my first short film. And I really established myself in the film festival world. – Jason Reitman
My short stature may have something to do with my tendency to shout when enraged. How else is anyone going to hear me way down here? – Koren Zailckas
I’m not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes. – John Lescroart
I don’t like just traveling in for a short time. I’ve done that before, because sometimes you work for magazines and they have a budget, and if you’re working for them, they want something by a certain time. – Joe Sacco
I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference. – John Sayles
And most countries are now reducing the number of conscripts and increasing the professionals that are available because they’re available on short notice. – Lord Robertson
We many times sell ourselves short, not only in relationships but throughout our own lives. Hopefully, we come around at some point and realize our own value. – Jennifer Nettles
Well, I think the best thing we can do for the short term is move good energy legislation through to the Congress; I’m encouraged that there’s some prospect for that now. – John W. Snow
When I was younger, playing piano and guitar were all things that I wanted to do for a short period of time, like any kid. – Katie Cassidy
I’ve read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium. – Lynn Abbey
‘Party Down’ is the most fun I’ve ever had working in my life. We shoot 10-episode seasons and we shoot it in 10 weeks, so it’s very brief: 4-day episode shoots. You never get sick of anybody, and it never feels like a drag. It’s way, way, way too short. – Lizzy Caplan
Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can’t even measure them. – Lawrence M. Krauss
I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very short time; I was in a cover band, a jazz band, a blues band. I was in a gospel choir. – Kiesza
I majored in screenwriting and playwriting in school – and wanted to make films as a career. But when I directed my first short in college – which was called ‘Extras’ – I lost thousands of dollars and made an unsatisfying and incomplete film. – Mike Birbiglia
It’s gonna be short if it’s news; put it at the top. Style’s not an issue, just make it news. – Kurt Loder
In terms of the pilot, you have to introduce a lot of characters in a very short period of time, and you have to paint with slightly broad brush strokes because you just need to give an audience an idea of who these people might be. – Jack Davenport
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy. – Michael Pollan
My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom. – Miley Cyrus
If you go back to 2001, the market had two violent short covering rallies then, although I know the market didn’t officially get going until March 2003. – Louis Navellier
You can do a short film in three to four days, and then you can show it. Look at the careers you seen go either through Tropfest or outside of Tropfest. You can make a short film in a couple of days, and if it’s great, it can go in the Internet or go to a film festival like this one or another. – John Polson
The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
A short story can be packed with meaning and impact, with the concentrated density of a collapsed star, but should preferably also have a kind of elegant simplicity. – Jeffrey Thomas
If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them. – Kazuo Ishiguro
We should remember it wasn’t so long ago that confidence in New York was in short supply. – Michael Bloomberg
I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I’ve always read poetry; I’ve always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically. – Lorde
My process has changed in recent years because I now have two young kids. I have to be more regimented. The days are very short. – Lauren Kate
