#short

Everyone on this planet has a unique experience. Nothing travels the exact same path through time. Therefore everyone and everything in this universe is notable. In my opinion, to say otherwise is more than a little shortsighted and lacks perspective. ↗

— Dr. Leslie Dean Brown

#notable-quote #perspective #shortsightedness #experience

A shell in the pit," said I, "if the worst comes to worst will kill them all." The intense excitement of the events had no doubt left my perceptive powers in a state of erethism. I remember that dinner table with extraordinary vividness even now. My dear wife's sweet anxious face peering at me from under the pink lampshade, the white cloth with it silver and glass table furniture—for in those days even philosophical writers had luxuries—the crimson-purple wine in my glass, are photographically distinct. At the end of it I sat, tempering nuts with a cigarette, regretting Ogilvy's rashness, and denouncing the shortsighted timidity of the Martians. So some respectable dodo in the Mauritius might have lorded it in his nest, and discussed the arrival of that shipful of pitiless sailors in want of animal food. "We will peck them to death tomorrow, my dear. ↗

— H.G. Wells

#dodos #extinction #foreshadowing #overconfidence #shortsightedness

Friendship isn't a science mudboy. Just do what you think is right. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#eoin-colfer #friendship #holly-short #inspirational #friendship

She knew she could never love any man the way she loved a blank sheet of paper that only she could fill. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#jamie-weise #love #paper #short-story #writer-quotes

In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work. ↗

— James Meade

#before #economic #entitled #had #i

I don't think an alien will be a blob. If aliens are out there they should have evolved just like us. They should have eyes and be walking on two legs. In short if there is any life out there then it is likely to be very similar to us. ↗

— Simon Conway Morris

#any #evolved #eyes #i #just

The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it. ↗

— Denise Morrison

#both #business #early #enable #goal

In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player! ↗

— Eddie Murphy

#basketball #basketball player #boxer #character #could

Man, that kind of little honeybee just buzzes from flower to flower." "Maybe, but honey is sweet, you know? ↗

— Colleen Coover

#short-story #home

I'm either on the cusp of greatness or the edge of insanity. ↗

— Meb Bryant

#short-story #short-story