Short Fuse Quotes

#1. I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.

Chris O'Donnell

#2. She'd always had a short fuse but lately she was positively electric and could burst into flame anywhere, anytime ... When she was out of the shower, dry and cool, she had one of those reprieves that came regularly - she felt perfectly normal, sane and in control. Then came the inevitable guilt ...

Robyn Carr

#3. I don't like losing but I've mellowed. I maybe have a short fuse but it goes away quicker now.

Alex Ferguson

#4. Long memory, short fuse, big revenge.

Karen Traviss

#5. Presidents can be judged by the company they choose to keep.

Nina Easton

#6. You realize that you can't win 'em all. You try to win 'em all; you get frustrated, but you gotta have a short fuse either way. Success in the NFL is just as deadly as allowing yourself to kinda wallow in sorrow. It works both ways.

Jon Beason

#7. I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo. I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer

Yann Martel

#8. You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.

Adam Baldwin

#9. Mom brought me some peanut butter cookies and a biography of Judy Garland. She told me she thought my problem was that I was too impatient, my fuse was too short, that I was only interested in instant gratification. I said, "Instant gratification takes too long." The glib martyr.

Carrie Fisher

#10. When I am through learning, I am through.

John Wooden

#11. There were some summers when every boy in Ayrshire seemed to be playing golf, and my dad taught me. But he was a terrible teacher - of everything. Learning to drive with him almost killed me. He was the world's most impatient man - awful short fuse.

John Niven

#12. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#13. I came late to the genre of folk music.

Tom Morello

#14. Time moves forward don't live backwards

E'yen A. Gardner

#15. She had a short fuse this morning, because it was a day that ended with y, you see.

Maggie Stiefvater

#16. To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.

Vironika Tugaleva

#17. Mercy Falls was all about rumors, and the rumor on Jack was that he got his short fuse from his dad. I didn't know about that. It seemed like you ought to pick the sort of person you would be, no matter what your parents were like.

Maggie Stiefvater

#18. 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.

Mel Brooks

#19. Pain fades," I said slowly. "But being a nutcase seems to stick around. Guess who got the better deal here?" The last thing I remember is Mr. Chu's face blazing with fury.

James Patterson

#20. This is an election where there is a tea seller from the Opposition, and to defeat him, everyone has come together. They say Modi should not come. This is because those who looted the nation know that after 16th May what is going to happen.

Narendra Modi

#21. He has no clue that I have the patience of a saint. At least that's what Carlos says, although that isn't saying much, considering his fuse is about as short as an eyelash.

Simone Elkeles

#22. I'm looking for a woman with the body of Kelly Brook and the mind of Stephen Fry.

Stephen Merchant