Quotes about Me Short

Being short works for me. Votes: 4

Again, racing for me was about energy management. Votes: 4

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel. Votes: 4

The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge. Votes: 4

My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place. Votes: 4

Me and my roommate wrote and directed a little short comedy called 'The Elevator.' Votes: 4

Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short. Votes: 4

Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director. Votes: 4

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. Votes: 4

A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work. Votes: 4

I haven't yet met a woman who told me, 'I wish I had shorter legs.' Votes: 4

A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100,000 short. Votes: 4

I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me. Votes: 4

I'm very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features. Votes: 4

Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing. Votes: 4

I wish I was a bit shorter, as I think shorter people have better walks. Freddie Fox, the actor, is shorter than me and has an amazing gait; and Tom Cruise has a brilliant run. I'm just gangly. Votes: 4

Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied. Votes: 4

Everybody who knows me is like, 'Dude, you've got to chill out.' I can't not work, given where I want to be. Votes: 4

I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace. Votes: 4

People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning. Votes: 4

Goals help you overcome short-term problems. Votes: 3

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years. Votes: 3

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class. Votes: 3

I was a tremendous fan of the original Kenneth Grahame short story, 'The Reluctant Dragon.' Votes: 3

Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have. Votes: 3

I don't have any elaborate uniforms; I come to the ring in a T-shirt, a pair of sneakers and some shorts. Votes: 3

If my life be spared, nothing shall stop me short of visiting every nation of Indians on the Continent of North America. Votes: 3

I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their meaning. Votes: 3

Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian roulette. Votes: 3

I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see. Votes: 3

One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise. Votes: 3

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be. Votes: 3

I've always slightly preferred Spade to Marlowe, probably just because I thought Hammett was cooler than Chandler. He was leftwing, his name shortened to Dash rather than Ray, and he didn't smoke a pipe or like cats. Votes: 3

But obviously, we can't afford to make some bad long-term decisions with regard to basic commitments our country has - trade those away for some short-term assistance that may or may not be there a month from now. Votes: 3

Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music [...], some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world? Votes: 3

My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery. Votes: 3

The South Vietnamese were perhaps a little bit slow in doing things, they jump on, on the problem and they try to do themselves everything. Or, they try to have some short cuts with the, those people they were dealing with. Votes: 3

A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments, soccer games, romances, best friends, location of friend's houses, favorite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams. A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house. Votes: 3

Faced with a time shortage, we squeeze tasks into the nooks and crannies of our calendar, leaving less and less time to switch between them. As a result, we become less and less productive exactly when we need to be most productive. Votes: 3

The novel was set in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological and social dislocation seemed to me shortsighted.... To write a book set in the present, circa 2013, is to write about the distant past. Votes: 3

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's. Votes: 3

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's. Votes: 3

My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short stories of a very flimsy type, and also a work of a much more ambitious character, 'The Lives of the Black Letter Saints.' Votes: 3

Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it. Votes: 3

True humility is intelligent self-respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us mindful of the nobility God meant us to have. Yet it makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be. Votes: 3

When I think about directing a film, the thing that stops me short is wondering if I'm a natural at it the way I think you, and PTA, and Fincher are born directors. Maybe some people's talent is in understanding the ways that film communicates, without dialogue, without plot. Votes: 3

A short skirt and lots of makeup won't impress me. Votes: 0

In reality, Mom just really hates me having short hair. Votes: 0

Technology, in short, cannot teach me how to do without technology. Votes: 0

People complain that life is short,for me it seems very long. Votes: 0

Small, short-sighted, blonde, barbed - she reminds me of a bright little hedgehog. Votes: 0

The bottom line for me is that life is short and art is long. Votes: 0

Me and my roommate wrote and directed a little short comedy called 'The Elevator. Votes: 0

I have fallen short in my life, but my faith has always brought me home. Votes: 0

The only things that interested me were sports, girls, adventures, celebrities - in short, life. Votes: 0

Twitter lets me hear from a lot of people in a very short period of time. Votes: 0

You'll pardon me gentlemen if I make the fight short. I have a train to catch. Votes: 0

Oh, those wonder-filled evenings when acting enables me for a short moment to have more life. Votes: 0

Mixtapes are always small scale to me - they never get taken seriously, and they're always short-lived. Votes: 0

In short, it occurred to me that perhaps the only possible avant garde is the avant garden. Votes: 0

Nefertiti, the most beautiful calico in the world, chose me as her own six short years ago. Votes: 0

I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth. Votes: 0

Most dictators were short, fat, middle-aged and hairless. Besides Danny Devito, there's only me to play them. Votes: 0

I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it. Votes: 0

Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall, Short lot, or not, to be content with all. Votes: 0

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet. Votes: 0

I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition. Votes: 0

I was a greasy short-order cook. I just liked being greasy! That was a real departure for me. Votes: 0

I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am. Votes: 0

For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish. Votes: 0

Being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide. Votes: 0

Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me. Votes: 0

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything. Votes: 0

Strictly has just given me a real zest for life. Life is so short. We should all grasp it. Votes: 0

I was a lady gunda in school. Everyone was scared of me, and I was really short and round. Votes: 0

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly. Votes: 0

Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight Votes: 0

No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me With just a pocketful of soap. Votes: 0

I am my best self when I have super-short hair. That's when I feel most like me and most confident. Votes: 0

They go the long way but we take the short cut Give me the blonde hair, long weave, short cut Votes: 0

I don't care if you're black, white, short, tall, skinny, rich or poor. If you respect me I'll respect you Votes: 0

The Marine Corps taught me that I could achieve my goals. In short, the Marines made me believe in myself. Votes: 0

I'm short and curvy, but I think people want to work with me for reasons other than what I look like. Votes: 0

He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine. Votes: 0

In short? It is exhausting being me. Pretending to be normal is draining and requires amazing amounts of energy and Xanax. Votes: 0

I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying it. Votes: 0

I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally. Votes: 0

I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me. Votes: 0

I walk making up phrases; sit, contriving scenes; am in short in the thick of the greatest rapture known to me." Votes: 0

Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me.Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time. Votes: 0

I don't care what people think about me. Never did, never will. Life is too short to be worrying about that. Votes: 0

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that. Votes: 0

I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me. Votes: 0

Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days. Votes: 0

Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps. Votes: 0

Life is so beautiful and so short that anything that makes me feel less than too much is nothing at all. Votes: 0

I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it. Votes: 0

I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me. Votes: 0

I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me. Votes: 0

Im very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features. Votes: 0

Experience has thought me that there is only one short step between Love and Hate, as there is between Life and Death. Votes: 0

Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story. Votes: 0

The very fact that a holy, eternal, all-knowing, all-powerful, merciful, fair, and just God loves you and me is nothing short of astonishing. Votes: 0

My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind. Votes: 0

I'm flatchested, I'm short, I'm brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard time casting me as a 'beauty.' Votes: 0

I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that. Votes: 0

Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years. Votes: 0

If your letters are as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. Only let them be brim full of affection. Votes: 0

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit. Votes: 0

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless. Votes: 0

Can I convince the person about whom I'm crazy to be crazy about me? The short answer is no. The long answer is no. Votes: 0

There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters. Votes: 0

Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative." "Which is?" "Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Seeing pictures of other places around the world makes me feel more important. Reminds me, even though life is short, there's so much to do. Votes: 0

If you give me a short shot I will attack you. I'm not a baseliner who rallies. I try to get the point over with. Votes: 0

Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me. Votes: 0

I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful. Votes: 0

As I grew up, I learned what worked for me. That's where the short dresses came from. And you can't dance in a long dress. Votes: 0

I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me. Votes: 0

A name, for me, is a short way of working out what class that child comes from. Do I want my child to play with them? Votes: 0

Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph. Votes: 0

Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle. Votes: 0

All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it's a sign of security. Votes: 0

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me. Votes: 0

I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got into TV. Votes: 0

Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough. Votes: 0

In a perfect world, I'd love to make 90-minute movies, but for me, a movie needs to be as long or short as it can sustain itself. Votes: 0

Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the lives of others. Votes: 0

I'm pretty set in my ways. I doubt anything short of a miracle would change me. I do have an open mind, and I listen to them. Votes: 0

You come to realize that life is short, and you have to step up. Don't feel sorry for me. Much is expected of those who are strong. Votes: 0

I don't behave the way people necessarily want me to, but I tried behaving that other way for a short period of time and it didn't take. Votes: 0

You've changed," he said. "You're-uh-" "Yes?" "Taller." "I hope so. I was ten the last time you saw me." "And your hair's really dark now-and short," he added. Votes: 0

For me it's a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction the centre of the literary universe. Votes: 0

I remembered something. There's a man. He is bald and wears a short sleeve shirt. And somehow, he is important to me... I think his name is... Homer. Votes: 0

It took only seconds for me to make these discoveries, but even in that short time, my stomach nearly jumped through my mouth trying to reach the food. Votes: 0

It's taken me 15 years to feel I might be able to write and publish short stories, and for the assiduous checks of the industry to allow some through. Votes: 0

You can call me Agent Mickelson,' he told me with a smile. 'What about you? Is Max short for something? Maxine?' 'No, Dean. It's just Max. Votes: 0

Well, it doesn't look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about." "Don't sell yourself short. You're more Masterpiece Theatre. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can see that unknowingly I joined them in laughing at myself. That hurts the most. Votes: 0

There are ways of doing stunts without me. I get no pleasure putting my life in jeopardy just to get the shot. Life is too short for that nonsense. Votes: 0

If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it. Votes: 0

Life's too short to worry about injecting botulism into your face to get rid of a tiny line because you've laughed too much. To me, that's a bit warped. Votes: 0

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated. Votes: 0

For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise. Votes: 0

Well, no one treats me like a full-fledged royal, said Lissa, turning back to the dresses. No reason to act like one now. Show me your straps and short-sleeves. Votes: 0

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me. Votes: 0

After college, I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director. Votes: 0

Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack...taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy country of longnecks and short tales. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Possibly the fact that I was physically quite feeble, a relatively short little fellow, attracted me to that idea of a very authoritative and aggressive version of Conservative politics. Votes: 0

I'm really comfortable in a stressful, leadership position. I need this job. I need to do this. This fits my personality. This is the best thing for me, short of playing. Votes: 0