How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.
Sophocles

Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.
Eddie Van Halen

The long days are no happier than the short ones.
Philip James Bailey

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
Ibrahim Babangida

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.
Roger Ebert

Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.
Kevyn Aucoin

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
Alan Turing

If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking.
Victoria Adams

In short, industrialism is over.
Paul Hawken

I hate it when people slag us off. We had done three tours during 1970 and we finished off feeling we had just about had enough. We had done so much in that short space of time, we were drained.
John Bonham

The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.
P. G. Wodehouse

Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a three-minute record they would make you do an edited version for radio, particularly in America.
Pete Townshend

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.
Lou Reed

I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn't actually have that many scenes.
Helena Bonham Carter

In short, Luck's always to blame.
Jean De La Fontaine

When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within those parameters, you have lots of freedom because you're writing for the next day.
Chuck Klosterman

Good things, when short, are twice as good.
Tom Stoppard

My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.
Edward Teller

I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.
James Callaghan

Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger.
Channing Tatum