A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is usually only a few minutes long.
~ Russell Smith
When I was in college, I wrote poetry very seriously, and then once I had started writing short stories, I didn't go back to poetry, partially because I felt like I understood how incredibly difficult it was.
~ Elizabeth Mccracken
Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.
~ Mary Karr
I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.
~ Samantha Morton
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
~ Joseph Joubert
Anger is a short madness.
~ Horace
Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.
~ Kevin Rudd
From my anger, frustration, and hurt, I wrote the short story that would later become 'The Hate U Give.'
~ Angie Thomas
Every few years, I change my look for the simple reason that I get bored. If you Google Image me, you will see so many different looks: long hair, short hair, clean shaven, beard, etc.
~ Johnny Iuzzini
Long weekends at festivals, short weeks at home, all summer long: now that is surely preferable to the immense cost and headache of the nuclear family holiday in the sun?
~ Tom Hodgkinson
Aim high and don't sell yourself short. Know that you're capable. Understand that a lot of people battle with a lot of things - depression, body image or whatever else - so know that it's not just you. You're not alone.
~ Holly Holm
To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?
~ Albert Camus
I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?
~ J.k. Rowling
Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.
~ Wendy Kopp
I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don't permit any additional landfill permits for the time being, so we don't exacerbate the problem.
~ Ed Rendell
In my book, I detail the critical information we obtained from al Qaeda terrorists after they became compliant following a short period of enhanced interrogation. I have no doubt that that interrogation was legal, necessary and saved lives.
~ Jose Rodriguez
Personally, I'm an advocate for short engagements. Long sometimes means there is a reason for it. Two years engaged and no wedding... I'd be upset.
~ Emily Blunt
The best thing I ever bought is a vintage Oscar de la Renta short gingham dress that I wore to my rehearsal dinner the night before my wedding.
~ Kelly Wearstler
I admire Eudora Welty. 'Delta Wedding' is a book I've given as a present to numerous women. Eudora Welty rocks. She writes such jewel-like, fine, refined short stories.
~ Nell Zink
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world.
~ Kenneth Branagh
I do have an occasional temper - I sort of inherited my dad's short fuse.
~ Princess Eugenie Of York
My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
~ Zadie Smith
I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.
~ Lou Reed
I don't mind if my future is long or short, as long as I'm doing the right thing. And as long as I behave for other people.
~ Henry Allingham
Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.
~ Alex Rodriguez
