Short Sharp Quotes

#1. The man who had died looked nakedly on life, and saw a vast resoluteness everywhere flinging itself up in stormy or subtle wave-crests ... always the man who had died saw not the bird alone, but the short, sharp wave of life of which the bird was the crest.

D.H. Lawrence

#2. I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit it, you're able to hit it with a couple of short sharp shots ... it's a beautiful thing.

Alexis Arguello

#3. To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock
in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock
awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock
from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.

W.S. Gilbert

#4. EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.

Ambrose Bierce

#5. Someone's looking for a short sharp visit from the Slap Fairy, said Melody.

Simon R. Green

#6. I said to my agent, 'I want short, sharp, well-paid jobs because I haven't got time for anything else.'

Billie Whitelaw

#7. The most radical political act there is is to be an optimist. The most radical political act there is is to believe that, if I change, other people will follow suit.

Colin Beavan

#8. Every moment he spent with Wendy was a happy one. She had captured his heart. He put his left arm around her shoulder and pulled her in close. She nestled into his chest, and James was all but lost in the tide of her breathing.

Kalynn Bayron

#9. Never underestimate the short attention span of a satyr.

Jamie Wyman

#10. I train five days a week hard - but it is short and sharp - 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest.

Bear Grylls

#11. Only twice more did the housekeeper reappear, and then her stay in the room was very short, and Mr. Jaggers was sharp with her. But her hands were Estella's hands, and her eyes were Estella's eyes ...

Charles Dickens

#12. The sharp knife of a short life, well
I've had, just enough time.

Kimberly Perry

#13. You press on. We are who we are because of and in spite of our families. All we can do is learn from their mistakes. Use the strengths you inherited and overcome the weaknesses.

Michelle Pace

#14. Mid the sharp, short emerald wheat, scarce risen three fingers well,
The wild tulip at the end of its tube, blows out its great red bell,
Like a thin clear bubble of blood, for the children to pick and sell.

Robert Browning

#15. Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

#16. There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

James A. Garfield

#17. Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.

John Steinbeck

#18. I want to stay with you. it was easier to say in the darkness, knowing as i spoke my voice would betray me, my hopeless addiction to him.

Stephenie Meyer

#19. Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society - its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structures, its art, its key institutions - rearranges itself. We are currently living through such a time.

Peter Drucker

#20. The same way all the people I love factor in - my parents, my sister, my girlfriend [Lena Dunham], my best friend, all the people I love are always right there. I don't have a lot of people in my life, but there's a small group of people that I don't like to do things without.

Jack Antonoff

#21. the strong opinions I entertained against the marriage of first cousins,

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

#22. When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall be but short.

Thomas Brooks