Short Nasty Quotes

#1. For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.

Djuna Barnes

#2. Life is nasty, brutish, and short

Thomas Hobbes

#3. You can't keep resisting my irresistibleness, Natara Stone. You'll give in eventually, and I won't quit until you do.

Kelsey Ketch

#4. Life is nasty, brutish, and short. Death is easy.

Jacob M. Appel

#5. Life is short is what some niggaz said; not if you measure life - by how one lives and what he did.

Nas

#6. I'm not a big sing-and-dance man.

Satya Bhabha

#7. Life is painful, nasty and short ... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

Djuna Barnes

#8. A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.

Daniel H. Pink

#9. Opposing Bush's troop surge is a dangerous position.

Mike Huckabee

#10. Something wrong with short men, is there?" Roger inquired. "They tend to turn mean if they don't get their way," Claire answered. "Like small yapping dogs. Cute and fluffy, but cross them and you're likely to get a nasty nip in the ankle.

Diana Gabaldon

#11. Beyle's advice is not to purchase engravings of fine views and prospects seen on one's travels, since before very long they will displace our memories completly, ideed one might say they destroy them.

W.G. Sebald

#12. Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people ... the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life ... they are mean and they want to kill you.

Karl Lagerfeld

#13. The world is a dangerous place, full of people who don't trust each other. This is why I am staying up in this tree.

Kelly Link

#14. Sex, on the whole, was meant to be short, nasty and brutish. If what you want is cuddling, you should buy a puppy.

Julie Burchill

#15. Look, the life of gnomes and goblins is nasty, brutish and short. So are they.

Terry Pratchett

#16. Staying in a hotel this time. They put me up in a little bit of a shithole. Yeah. Just this side of rinky dink. The first 7 floors are a homeless shelter, but I'm on 8.

David Spade

#17. And Americans always think international laws are for other people anyway,

Orson Scott Card

#18. When courtesy fails, be nasty, brutish, and short.

Mason Cooley

#19. To Pussy
(1981-1995)

Martin McDonagh

#20. Telling a butler how to make good tea; Warm the pot first, please, then put two heaping teaspoonfuls in the pot no bags in boiling water, and when it's in, stir it. And when it comes here, I will stir it again.

Lynn Fontanne

#21. You move differently than you do when you're filling the stage at Radio City. You have to be bigger than life there.

Nickolas Ashford

#22. The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style

Stella Gibbons

#23. I really think people should live to be 100 years old pretty much disease-free. I think that's our genetic potential.

John Mackey

#24. I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

Amar'e Stoudemire

#25. Magic. It can get a guy killed.

Jim Butcher

#26. Life inside successful Web startups - especially the really successful ones - can be nasty, brutish, and short. As companies grow exponentially, egos clash, investors jockey for control, and business complexities rapidly exceed the managerial abilities of the founders.

Brad Stone

#27. Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned in the past six months has persuaded him otherwise.
Has it?

Dan Simmons

#28. I feel able to steal from Emily Dickinson because she's both wonderful and dead.

Mal Peet