Short 1 Sentence Quotes

#1. How many millions of times the sentence 'Life is short' has been repeated in the human history? But nevertheless we all live as if we have millions of years! Oh, how silly!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. 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

#3. He was the class clown, the court jester, because he'd learn early that if you cracked jokes and pretended you weren't scared, you usually didn't get beat up. Even the baddest gangster kids would tolerate you, keep you around for laughs. Plus, humor was a good way to hide the pain

Rick Riordan

#4. Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.

Jasper Fforde

#5. Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.

Christian Lacroix

#6. A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.

Edgar Allan Poe

#7. Sometimes reducing a problem to one short sentence can be enough to bring about insight on its own.

David Rock

#8. You're so scared of things sometimes, and for no reason," Sloane said, her voice quieter. "And sometimes, I wish ... " She didn't finish the sentence, just let it hang in the car between us.
I wished it too - whatever it was that in that moment Sloane wanted me to be, that I was falling short of.

Morgan Matson

#9. He was very short in prayer when others were present, but every sentence was like a strong bolt shot up to heaven. I have heard him say that he wearied when others were long in prayer; but, being alone, he spent much time in wrestling and prayer.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#10. There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.

William Zinsser

#11. Let's face it: WikiLeaks exists because the mainstream media haven't done their job.

Jesse Ventura

#12. The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

Roland Barthes

#13. If [a short story author's] very initial sentence tend not to the out bringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step.

Edgar Allan Poe

#14. On the first day of Human Sexuality, Ruth Ramsey wore a short lime green skirt, a clingy black top, and strappy high-heeled sandals, the kind of attention-getting outfit she normally wouldn't have worn on a date
not that she was going on a lot of dates these days
let alone to work.

Tom Perrotta

#15. I'm pragmatic. If this is going to make sense, get me a job, and in the end let me put my kids through school. I'll play killers. But my kids always ask me, 'Do you die in this one, too, Daddy?'

Colm Feore

#16. When you want to say something very important, tell it with a short sentence! There is no time for long stories!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#17. It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition.

Haruki Murakami

#18. You keep floudering and never get anywhere.

Haruki Murakami

#19. Since life is an ever evolving process, one should flow in this process and discover how to actualize and expand oneself.

Bruce Lee

#20. First: never use a long word if a short word will do. Second: if you want to make a statement with a great many qualifications, put some of the qualifications in separate sentences. Third: do not let the beginning of your sentence lead the reader to an expectation which is contradicted by the end.

Bertrand Russell

#21. If I ideally can, I'd do a comedy, and then I would do something where I'm a mental patient, and then I'd go back and do a comedy so I can continue to express myself in different ways.

Mircea Monroe

#22. A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Miguel De Cervantes

#23. In one short sentence, it is captaincy that counts

Bernard Montgomery

#24. My father from long habit took a book with him to the table and then, remembering my presence, furtively dropped it under his chair.

Evelyn Waugh

#25. Empathy is an essential part of living a life of meaning.

Daniel H. Pink

#26. True wealth comes from within the heart which is the most valuable masterpiece you have that's underneath your skin

Martellis Thurmand

#27. Kelly Link's prose is conveyed in details so startling and fine that you work up a sweat just waiting for the next sentence to land. This is why we read, crave, need, can't live without short stories.

Tea Obreht

#28. There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.

Yo-Yo Ma

#29. He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.

James Joyce

#30. ... when writing, always hook the reader with your first sentence ... in love, never settle ... value yourself first and this will help you to value others ... life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest ... everyone in the world is different, and that's ok ...

Spider Robinson