Short Message Quotes

#1. It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago. They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped.

John Humphrys

#2. The sad thing is," she said, "the moment you start to miss someone, it means they're already gone.

Lang Leav

#3. The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

Barack Obama

#4. The lime trees were in bloom. But in the early morning only a faint fragrance drifted through the garden, an airy message, an aromatic echo of the dreams during the short summer night.

Isak Dinesen

#5. I want to look into a mirror that will love my own reflection harder than I hate myself.

Meggie Royer

#6. Life should be like a good Tweet - short, pithy, convey a message and inspire others to follow.

Ashok Kallarakkal

#7. It is never late, you can start the movement now, the provisions have been made, the price has been paid and the gifts have been packaged. Are you willing to change?

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#8. If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.

Edward Weston

#9. I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football.

Trey Parker

#10. I would love to be in 'Wicked': that's my dream show. I don't care if I'm just the guy who is swirling the ribbon at the beginning of 'One Short Day,' I love that show; I love the message of the show, and I would love to be in it some day.

Todrick Hall

#11. Pride is both a virtue and a vice.

Theodore Parker

#12. Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.

Robert Breault

#13. From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am still plugging away and not the ghost of one so far, so it begins to look as though, unless I suddenly hit mid-season form in my eighties, humanity will remain a message short.

P.G. Wodehouse

#14. I loved playing [the Doctor], and taking part in the basic essence and message of the series which is, it's a short life, seize it, and live it as fully as you can. Care for others. Be respectful of all other life forms, regardless of colour or creed. To be part of that was fantastic.

Christopher Eccleston

#15. God only make plans, no problems. In heaven, there is never panic.

Corrie Ten Boom

#16. What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the weight of a single grain of sand? The answer is equal to my interest in the message you are about to leave so make it short.
Mitch Hertzog's voice mail message.

Meg Cabot

#17. He could have a break at last, albeit a short one, one he sorely needed. And with that appealing thought he further squelched the subconscious screams, true message lost in the deceptive world of emotion and will.

Marcha A. Fox

#18. You can always make something out of nothing.

Simms Taback

#19. The more you learn, the more you realize how much there is to learn.

Trip Adler

#20. We've learned a bunch of things; when you send a message to people, keep those messages short. Imagine walking up to a girl in a bar and going into a four-minute speech about how great you are. No one wants to hear that.

Sam Yagan

#21. E-mail is a whole new way of being friends with people: intimate but not, chatty but not, communicative but not; in short, friends but not. What a breakthrough. How did we ever live without it? I have more to say on this subject, but I have to answer an instant message from someone I almost know.

Nora Ephron

#22. You want to forget your pain. I mean to tell you that doing that will only cause you more hurt. - Khai

Ted Dekker

#23. I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

Eknath Easwaran

#24. No-one can say just how long a message should be, but you rarely hear complaints about a speech being too short. The amateur worries about what he is going to put into his speech. The expert worries about what he should take out. An artisitic performance is concentrated, has a central focus.

Edgar Dale

#25. Travers didn't say anything, but she nodded in agreement. Jade silently thanked her for being quiet. He needed quiet right now.

Gregg Hurwitz

#26. It seems to me that every day
Is an audition.

Stasia Ward Kehoe

#27. Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.

Jerry B. Jenkins