Short Visit Quotes

#1. You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

Walter Hagen

#2. Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?

Charles Lamb

#3. Life is like that short visit on the road. Prayer is for those who wish to talk to God. Meditation is for those who only want to listen to him.

Christopher Pike

#4. If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#5. Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.

Desmond Morris

#6. Just a short visit, enough for a mild dismemberment?

Gail Carriger

#7. The fake republics are goners; the monarchies have a fighting chance. That's my conclusion after a short visit to the Middle East and discussions with officials and analysts there.

Elliott Abrams

#8. It was to be a short visit for the G-shevs. More than four days in the U.S. and Raisa's VISA card bill would shatter the fragile Soviet economy.

P. J. O'Rourke

#9. Genius is power, talent is applicability.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. It is not possible to be original except on a basis of tradition.

D.W. Winnicott

#11. If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#12. The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

Georges Bernanos

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

Simon R. Green

#14. Do what you love. Go to a good art school and study with the best teachers. Move to New York and read Ask Mark Kostabi.

Mark Kostabi

#15. From the church I received a spiritual foundation that has kept me balanced. From the gospel music I learned the importance of singing with emotion- authentic emotion- not contrived- which has made my music endearing.

Oleta Adams

#16. My dresser and I have the hots for the new rugby ace Danny Cipriani. We have a shrine in my dressing room - press photos of him on the field looking swarthy and fit, and snaps of our boy emerging from Mayfair nightclubs, looking sexy and dishevelled.

Julian Clary

#17. Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit short. And yet, despite the discomfort, the danger, I love it here. I love coming back for these imaginary vacations. The sights are amazing.

Greg Bear

#18. Flowers are an education in a vase.

Robert Genn

#19. Even someone like Mrs. Bonnaventura, who had lived a mostly blameless life, when ushered into the awesome presence of the Creator of the infinite universe and also of the butterfly, would discover ten thousand fearsome new layers of meaning in the word humility.

Dean Koontz

#20. Karma is a bitch.

V.K. Springs

#21. Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.

Paul Theroux

#22. The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkledtrophy.

Henry David Thoreau

#23. It is one thing to want money-everyone wants more-but it is something entirely different to be worth more!

Napoleon Hill

#24. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

Jane Austen

#25. Our visit to this planet is short, so we should use our time meaningfully, which we can do by helping others wherever possible. And if we cannot help others, at least we should try not to create pain and suffering for them.

Dalai Lama

#26. The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

Victor Papanek

#27. If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.

Eoin Colfer

#28. Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me.
Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.

Anne Carson

#29. If you build a career on being a beautiful young woman, that's going to be a short career. I have to establish I can act. I don't want to have to visit the plastic surgeon every two years.

Amanda Donohoe

#30. Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).

Jerry Saltz