#short

Life's too short to be sat at home writing all the time. ↗

— Helen Hodgman

#life #life-s-too-short #writing #life

Eden," Cyrus snapped bringing her back to the present. "I have a sword pointed at you. Will you please focus ↗

— Samantha Young

#humor #short-attention-span #humor

Perhaps, if you weren't so busy regarding my shortcomings, you'd find that I do possess redeeming qualities, discreet as they may be.  I notice when the sky is blue.  I smile down at children.  I laugh at any innocent attempt at humor.  I quietly carry the burdens of others as though they were my own.  And I say 'I'm sorry' when you don't.  I am not without fault, but I am not without goodness either. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#faults #goodness #judging #judging-people #richelle

We let ourselves loose on that simple blank piece of paper, and our bodies spill. The terror, the love…embodying our stories page after page. In a sense, the pen was our tongue, it is how we delineate the world. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#jamie-weise #journaling #love #overcoming #pages

Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit? ↗

— Pat Conroy

#life #life-is-short #live-in-the-moment #inspirational

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. ↗

— Harold Ross

#back #day #few #filled #his

In an effort to provide my constituents with information on how they can make contributions to a number of relief and humanitarian organizations, I have posted a short list of these groups and contact numbers on my Internet website. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#contact #contributions #effort #groups #how

I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he drove up at the door I drove out of the dock because he says I’m his ideal. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#american-dream #fitzgerald #jazz-age-stories #short-stories #women

Life is short. Ricky and I realize how lucky we were. We want to be together all the time. ↗

— Christie Brinkley

#i #life #life is short #lucky #realize

I like to write a joke without any fat on it.The shorter the better. I cater for people with ADD, basically. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

#any #basically #better #cater #fat