T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be more concentrated, can be more visionary, and is not weighed down (as the novel is bound to be) by facts, explanation, or analysis. I do not mean to say that the short story is by any means exempt from the laws of narrative: it must observe them, but on its own terms.”
Source: Stories
“The short story is not as restrictive as the sonnet, but, of all the literary forms, it is possibly the most single-minded. ...at the end there has to be the literary equivalent of the magician's puff of smoke, an outcome that is both startling and anticipated.”
“The short story is not, as some believe, a lesser form of literature than the novel.”
Source: The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Werewolf Anthology
“The short story is not the miniature form of the novel. The art of the short story is entirely independent. In that same vein, there is no novel-writing tradition that especially governs the short story.”
Source: The Shehnai Virtuoso and Other Stories
“The short story is so much about inevitability and this feeling that things always had to be this one way, and I wanted the apocalypses to blow that idea apart. I hope it feels that way. I hope the book invites people to read the stories in order and then, if they feel like it, maybe not read them in order the next time.”
“The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it.”
“The short story is that which, like a flash of lightning, pierces right through while establishing a viewpoint; without any other machinations, simply gestures with a finger to awaken dormant emotions; creates an entirely new imaginary world around the reader. The novel says whatever it wants. The short story, by rousing the imagination and emotions, only alludes to or provides a spark of whatever it wants to say. This is why the writer of the short story needs a reader who is impressible, emotional, swift and intelligent; to such a reader, he will be forever in debt.”
Source: The Shehnai Virtuoso and Other Stories
“The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him, and when he is compelled to exist, as it were, by his own inner light.”
“The short story is the literature of the nomad.”
“The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime”
Source: The Stories of Bernard Malamud
“The short story that eventually grew into Constellation was the first fiction set in Russia that I'd ever written, and that was right around the time I was giving up on a doomed, never-to-be-seen first novel. While I saw it could be something bigger, in hindsight fortuitous timing was as responsible as anything.”
“The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness--too often forced and false: it may thus more nearly than the novel approach aesthetic and moral truth.”
“The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one.”
“The short term effects of very high altitude ‘Summit Brain’ tend to progress into long term neurological and physical impairments.”
“The short version is that I started an internet diary a long, long time ago (six years!) because I was bored with my job. I figured I would write a few funny things a few times a week until I had enough material to do stand-up. After two or three weeks, I emailed it to some friends. They emailed it to other friends, and more people started reading. Eventually, I realized that stand-up was scary and it would be much easier to just keep writing this stuff at work.”
“The short version is that nobody told us...that it is words to try and fail than to not try at all. Because when you don't try, you can always imagine the life you could have lived.”
Source: Tilt
“The short way to happiness is through kindness and sensitivity.”
“The short winter’s day was drawing to a close. It seems to me sometimes that these are the only days I have ever known, and especially that most charming moment of all, just before night
wipes them out.”
Source: The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
“The short words are best, and the old words, when short, are the best of all.”
“The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World
“The short-cut to popularity is to lend everyone your ears, instead of giving them your tongue”
Source: How I Raised Myself From Failure
“The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps can be greater than great leaps.”
“The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“The short-range involves the long-range. Immediate steps have to be taken to reeducate our people into the, a more real view of political, economic, and social conditions in this country, and our ability in, in a self- improvement program to gain control politically over every community in which we predominate, and also over the economy of that same community as here in Harlem. Instead of all the stores in Harlem being owned by white people, they should be owned and operated by black people.”
“The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically, heading up or down in literary space.”
“The short-term impact is that people are encouraged to give the Church another look. It's up to the liveliest parts of the Church - the dynamically orthodox parts of the Church - to seize that opportunity.”
“The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium in the balance of payments.”
“The short-term problems are economic - royalties, unions, irresponsible management. The long-term problems are artistic, and they started 40 years ago with the advent of television and the upgrading of films.”
“The short-term vision is: I research on something which I can use tomorrow, and for some politicians it is even better if it's today. But if you do this, you can only do targeted research. If you only do targeted research, you lose the side-routes.”
“The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.”
“The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.”
“The shortage of tobacco, of water and of wood was nothing nearly as important, however, as the imminent shortage of grog. He had not dared to cut that daily issue, and there was only rum for ten more days in the ship. Not the finest crew in the world could be relied on if deprived of their ration of rum.”
Source: Beat to Quarters
“The shortcoming of hanging pawns is that they present a convenient target for attack. As the exchange of men proceeds, their potential strength lessens and during the endgame they turn out, as a rule, to be weak.”
“The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.”
“The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct. Anyone who attacks such ideas must seem to be a trifle self-confident and even aggressive. The man who makes his entry by leaning against an infirm door gets an unjustified reputation for violence. Something is to be attributed to the poor state of the door.”
Source: The affluent society
“The shortcut is a lie.”
Source: Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
“The shortcut to anything you want in your life is to BE and FEEL happy now!”
Source: The Secret
“The shortcut to birthing your true self begins with re-owning the power which resides within you.”
Source: BEYOND OUR FEELINGS: How to reawaken your awareness within to make smarter choices, create deep, lasting relationships and live up to your true potential.
“The shortcut to happiness is truth.”
“The shortcut way can save your time, but that deprives you of the sufficient knowledge and scoop.”
“The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint”
“The shorter and the plainer the better.”
“The shorter one’s life, the longer the list of loved ones one will not have had to bury.”
“The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.”
“The shorter the hours, the larger the income. Don't get into the habit of putting in long hours or you may be set down into a permanent subordinate position.”
Source: The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays
“the shorter your sleep, the shorter your life span”
Source: Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
“The shortes word I know is "I" the sweetest word I know is "love" and the only thing that is important is "U”
“The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.”
“The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.”
“The shortest answer is doing the thing.”