S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Short of climbing aboard a time capsule and peeling back eight and one-half decades, James Cameron's magnificent Titanic is the closest any of us will get to walking the decks of the doomed ocean liner. Meticulous in detail, yet vast in scope and intent, Titanic is the kind of epic motion picture event that has become a rarity. You don't just watch Titanic , you experience it from the launch to the sinking, then on a journey two and one-half miles below the surface, into the cold, watery grave where Cameron has shot never-before seen documentary footage specifically for this movie.”
“Short of coming to their senses and abolishing the whole thing, we might expect that the rules for daylight saving time will remain the same for some time to come, but there is no guarantee. (We can only be glad there is no daylight loan time, or we would face decades of too much daylight, only to be faced with a few years of total darkness to make up for it.”
“Short of nuclear war itself, population growth is the gravest issue the world faces. If we do not act, the problem will be solved by famine, riots, insurrection and war.”
“Short of preventing harm to the child, the standard of 'best interest of the child' is insufficient to serve as a compelling state interest overruling a parent's fundamental rights.... To suggest otherwise would be the logical equivalent to asserting that the state has the authority to break up stable families and redistribute its infant population to provide each child with the 'best family.' It is not within the province of the state to make significant decisions concerning the custody of children merely because it could make a 'better' decision.”
“Short of screaming-hot Thai food, everything can be suitable for kids too.”
“Short of spending $10,000, there is nothing you can do to your head to hide the fact that you're going bald.”
“Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.”
“Short on all the things I don't want, I'm full of love and longing. Take me by the hand and tell me, you would take me anywhere.”
“Short on glamour and long on tragedy.”
Source: By Quentin Reynolds
“Short on money, long on hope”
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel
“Short or long to Goblin City? The straight way's short But the long way's pretty.”
Source: The Fantastic World of Terry Jones: Fairy Tales: His Great Tales and Unbelievable Adventures
“Short path or straight path, the distance to reach God remains the same”
“Short people DO NOT like to be picked up.”
Source: Yes Please
“Short people got no reason to live.”
“Short people have long faces, and long people have short faces. Big people have little humor, and little people have no humor at all.”
“Short prayer pierceth heaven.”
“Short putts are missed because it is not physically possible to make the little ball travel over uncertain ground for three or four feet with any degree of regularity.”
“Short sellers age in dog years.”
“Short shrift is made of the Jews in all eastern occupied areas. Tens of thousands of them are liquidated.”
“Short stories amount for the most part to parlour tricks, party favours with built-in snappers, gadgets for including recognition and reversals”
“Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being. It's like trying to pin down the eternal moment.”
“Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story writer learns to include only the most essential information.”
“Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.”
“Short stories are like individual jewel stones on a necklace, wonderful in themselves like standalone gleaming entities of semantic intensity.”
“Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.”
Source: M Is for Magic
“Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams”
Source: M Is for Magic
“Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.”
“Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.”
“Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.”
“Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.”
“Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.”
Source: The Wilful Eye (Tales from the Tower Volume One)
“Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.”
“Short story collections are the literary equivalent of canapés, tapas and mezze in the world of gastronomy: Delightful assortments of tasty morsels to whet the reader's appetite.”
Source: Impromptu Scribe
“Short story writers simply do what human beings have always done. They write stories because they have to; because they cannot rest until they have tried as hard as they can to write the stories. They cannot rest because they are human, and all of us need to speak into the silence of mortality, to interrupt and ever so briefly stop that quiet flow, and with stories try to understand at least some of it.”
Source: Broken Vessels: Essays
“Short summers lightly have a forward spring.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.”
“Short term "dash for cash" economic solutions hinder progress towards a better, more sustainable, world”
“Short term gain will result in long term pain”
“Short term memory makes no difference if you've lost your mind.”
“Short-term pain leads to long-term gain.”
Source: Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
“Short-term price action means nothing and should mean nothing to you. Keep your focus on long-term business growth.”
“Short-term price fluctuation is not the real risk. It is an opportunity.”
“Short term satisfaction will never lead to something timeless.”
“Short-term trading is very time-consuming. That is why even “successful” short-term traders can easily have negative real ROI.”
Source: The Million Dollar Decision: Get Out of the Rigged Game of Investing and Add a Million to Your Net Worth
“Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established”
Source: The Alchemy of Finance
“Short term, the most important thing is to put people back to work ... If they're working, that means they're paying taxes, that means that they're buying goods and services - and the economy, instead of being on a downward spiral, starts back up on an upward spiral.”
“Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.”
“Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.”
Source: The Complete Sonnets and Poems
“Short version: For the child. . ., it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. . . . It is more important to pave the way for a child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts that he is not ready to assimilate.”
Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work
“Short wins does not guarantee long victories.”