Short Circuit Quotes

#1. New York. The world's most dramatic city. Like a permanent short circuit, sputtering and sparking up into the night sky all night long. No place like it for living. And probably no place like it for dying.
("New York Blues")

Cornell Woolrich

#2. It doesn't do any good to wire the world if we short circuit the soul.

Tom Brokaw

#3. How did it die?" he asked.
"Short circuit," I said. "Old and frayed wires."
He looked at me like I was senile.
"Could have been disease. Violence. Or, sometimes, things die because we don't love them enough.

Jonathan Messinger

#4. I think we're lucky to be living when we are, because things are going to get worse.

David Attenborough

#5. I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.

George M. Cohan

#6. Find your creative outlet and plug into it. Otherwise, you may just short-circuit.

Giuseppe Bianco

#7. It takes the same energy to complain as it does to compliment. When there is a short circuit, there is a complaint, and when the energy is flowing, there is a compliment.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#8. It is not enough to wire the world if you short-circuit the soul. Technology without heart is not enough.

Tom Brokaw

#9. we think we can truly short-circuit the ramp by killing things that don't make sense fast and doubling down on the ones that do.

Eric Ries

#10. Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.

Albert Camus

#11. Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?

Pat Conroy

#12. The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depths.

Peter Ackroyd

#13. Hope is not logical. It always comes as a surprise, just when you think all hope is lost. Hope is the cousin to grief, and both take time: you can't short-circuit grief, or emptiness, and you can't patch it up with your bicycle tire tube kit. You have to take the next right action.

Anne Lamott

#14. As long as you pretend to be self-sufficient, you short-circuit God's power in your life. You need to admit your inadequacy and say, "God, I can't handle this!"

Rick Warren

#15. The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind

Ayn Rand

#16. I am happy in Paris.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#17. To look for a job before looking deeply inward is likely to short-circuit the process of finding your calling.

Dan Miller

#18. There's a short circuit between my brain and my tongue, thus "Leave me the fuck alone" comes out as "Well, maybe. Sure. I guess I can see your point.

David Sedaris

#19. I am a firm believer that the Lord sometimes has to short-circuit even our best plans for our benefit.

Tony Dungy

#20. A whole roomful of Jews is like a charged battery. The vitality sparks seem to fly, and frequently the result is a short circuit.

Edna Ferber

#21. What's exciting about using our mind is that we can short circuit all the excuses thrown up by our fears.

Mark Victor Hansen

#22. The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition.

Arthur Koestler

#23. When I started stand-up - and this is in the '90s - there was definitely people hadn't watched decades of Comedy Central, where people are really much more educated on stand-up comedy.

Jim Gaffigan

#24. To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

Margaret Thatcher

#25. I watch the tip of my tie sway to and fro and wonder how humans got to a place where we said, "Whoa. Hold on. Before I can take you seriously, you need to hang a brightly colored strip of narrow pointy cloth around your neck.

Jeff Zentner

#26. Something was wrong with the devices themselves. Digging deep into the internal structure of the circuit boards with powerful microscopes, Simon's team had discovered broken and incorrect connections, electronic dead-ends, short circuits, and nonsensical pathways.

A. Ashley Straker

#27. Love requited is a short circuit.

Samuel Beckett

#28. Maybe it's a green thing or a wolf thing or a short-circuit thing. I don't seem to know anything.

Jazz Feylynn

#29. If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.

Caitlyn Jenner

#30. I nodded dejectedly. She was right. There wasn't a thing that we could do. But perhaps burn a few bunches of incense to Sekhmet. I would utter some frantic prayers to God too even though Christianity hadn't even been thought of yet. It wouldn't hurt to cover all of my bases.

Courtney Cole

#31. Listen: You can't short-circuit the learning process. It takes time to get to the top, and that's good-because by the time you get there, you'll have learned what you need to know in order to stay there.

Maria Shriver