I wasn’t the prettiest girl in class. No breasts, short legs, gangly teeth. I didn’t think I was model material, that’s for sure. – Kate Moss
When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I’m successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible. – Milan Kundera
At the age of 60, you see how short the runway is in front of you and how long the runway is behind you, and that you don’t have much time left. – James Balog
Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence – and our inspiration comes from that essence. – Lance Secretan
When I was 8, my dad asked me if I wanted to audition, just for fun. I did just a little short film, and I liked it. I just kept doing it, and then I started getting bigger auditions for bigger roles. – Kodi Smit-McPhee
I have a short temper – I think it’s part of the Celtic background. I used to be a lot more angry, but I was quite discreet with it. – Julian Lennon
I consider myself a writer. I don’t favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me. – James Lasdun
I go short and sweet on the engagement. I did have a longish engagement, but I think short and sweet is best. – Leelee Sobieski
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. – Kevyn Aucoin
I don’t like showing cleavage because I get cold, and if I had fantastic legs, I might wear short skirts – but I think at 78, one’s got to act one’s age. – Mary Berry
As I’ve gotten older, I like longer dresses, but my legs come up to my ears, and I’m not very tall, so when I wear a short skirt,I’ve got to be really conscious. – Meghan Markle
I think that what we should do is have short, clipped conversations on the telephone so someone can always get us, not talking about inane stuff and having someone trying to get you. I also think we’ve just got to be more sensitive toward other people and not call them at night if you know they’ve been working. – Letitia Baldrige
Life’s short, you know? Especially as an athlete. Your career is very short, and you use the opportunities that you have because you’re not going to have them again. – Lindsey Vonn
I’m really annoyed by the wave of country music that’s just a list of stuff. It almost sounds like L.A. people writing country music, because it’s just a list of stuff: ‘My pickup truck and my cowboy boots and my Levi’s jeans and my girlfriend with the short shorts.’ It’s so boring! – Kathleen Hanna
The short story is a very natural mode of storytelling; most stories can be told quickly. I always think of them as like a tightrope walk – every sentence is a step along the rope, and you can so easily misplace your step and break your neck. – Kevin Barry
If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there’s not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it. – Michael J. Fox
Collections aren’t really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection. – Lydia Davis
I can evaluate a player in a very short period of time because I’m very close to that game, very educated in that game and played the game for a long, long time. I wasn’t just a guy with talent. I learned a lot about the game. – Kurt Russell
I believe love’s grip transcends gender. It transcends everything short of a very few primal needs like hunger, thirst, a need for oxygen. – Lauren Kate
Children can’t help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories. – Jonah Lehrer
There are a lot of public figures who, before they take a stand on a issue, they talk about it with their publicist and they figure out how it’s going to affect record sales. Life is really too short to worry about that sort of thing. – Moby
That’s all small talk is – a quick way to connect on a human level – which is why it is by no means as irrelevant as the people who are bad at it insist. In short, it’s worth making the effort. – Lynn Coady
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. – John Sladek
I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn’t such a leap. – Jim Coleman
