I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed to get a whole world into such a small space.
The Dark Ages may return-the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of Science; and what might now shower immeasureable material blessings upon mankind may even bring about its total destruction. Beware! I say. Time may be short. Referring to the discovery of atomic energy.
We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and its dissipation into countless electronic devices that impart the latest in entertainment and supposed information - all in short (and loud) doses of "easy listening".
Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind?. . . A short, blunt human pyramid. . . ?
If we can't even spend a short amount of time each day with God in solitude, our spiritual formation will be seriously stunted.
The only things that interested me were sports, girls, adventures, celebrities - in short, life.
You might say he was one taco short of a combination platter.
All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an 'impoverishment' but an increase in wealth, for it is in this way that we make the short hours of our lives live on beyond themselves.
Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.
When you stack up all the years we are allowed against all there is to read, time is very short indeed.
Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.
A curst Cow hath short hornes. [A curst cow has short horns. ]
Life's too short not to enjoy what you're working on.
I can look at my early work and see what a pained struggle it was to draw what I was drawing. I was trying so hard to get this specific look that was in my head, and always falling short.
A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand. ]
Life is too short to be little.
Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.
The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever floored.
I’m not short. I’m…vertically disadvantaged.
Oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long term.