„Tremendous, little short of superb. On cracking form.“

„Life is too short to be little.“

—  Benjamin Disraeli British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister 1804 - 1881

„Seriously, any other town you go to there's this little devil and a little angel on your shoulder. A little good advice, a little bad advice. – You go to Las Vegas, there's like a devil and a devil and they're just battling it out the whole time. It's like, "Smoke some crack!" "Get a hooker!" And then I go, "YEA! Yea, this is a good town. Smoke some crack and get a hooker! Alright!"“

—  Bill Burr American actor, comedian and a celebrity podcaster 1968

„I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.“

—  George Carlin American stand-up comedian 1937 - 2008

„Oh, yeah, she's that snippy little Brit girl who takes all the parts so no one else gets a crack at it.“

—  Tracey Ullman, buch Tracey Takes On...

„If Kumble was born in Australia or England, he would have got much more prominence in world cricket considering his superb record in both forms of the game. Kumble is definitely the best role model for any youngster entering the game.“

—  Anil Kumble Former Indian cricketer 1970

„If Kumble was born in Australia or England, he would have got much more prominence in world cricket considering his superb record in both forms of the game. Kumble is definitely the best role model for any youngster entering the game.“

—  Arjuna Ranatunga Sri Lankan cricketer 1963

„In the short term, natural selection favors self-propagating systems that pursue their own short-term advantage with little or no regard for long-term consequences.“

—  Theodore Kaczynski American domestic terrorist, mathematician and anarchist 1942

„For love, as he knew it, was an aberration, a form of temporary insanity, a short-lived state of autosuggestion.“

—  Robert Sheckley American writer 1928 - 2005

„There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.“

—  Elizabeth Gilbert, buch Eat, Pray, Love

„If you give yourself that short little moment of thinking, then you cannot miss it.“

—  Michel Thomas American linguist and language teacher 1914 - 2005

„LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with autodestructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to the crunch it’ll be someone else’s bones which go crack and not their own.“

—  John Brunner, buch Morgenwelt

„Innocence ain't all it's cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don't know any better. innocence.“

—  Joe Hill Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World 1879 - 1915

„I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.“

—  Jack Kerouac American writer 1922 - 1969

„A man walks down the street
He says why am I short of attention
Got a short little span of attention
And woe my nights are so long“

—  Paul Simon American musician, songwriter and producer 1941

„He felt as if someone far away below in the darkness was chipping away at the pillars of his mind, and the steady crack…crack…crack of it was the only sound in the universe.“

—  Tim Powers, buch The Drawing of the Dark

„The form of this book can be seen as a revival for the present age of the oldest form of recorded spiritual teachings: the sutras of ancient India. Sutras are powerful pointers to the truth in the form of aphorisms or short sayings, with little conceptual elaboration. The Vedas and Upanishads are the early sacred teachings recorded in the form of sutras, as are the words of the Buddha. The sayings and parables of Jesus, too, when taken out of their narrative context, could be regarded as sutras, as well as the profound teachings contained in the Tao Te Ching, the ancient Chinese book of wisdom. The advantage of the sutra form lies in its brevity...“

—  Eckhart Tolle German writer 1948

„A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.“

—  Bertrand Russell logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist 1872 - 1970

„There is a kind of synergy between the different forms of work, you’ll learn things from one sort of work that will have tremendous application in another. They all tend to pull each other forward.“

—  Alan Moore English writer primarily known for his work in comic books 1953

„in this short life
that only lasts ah hour
how much-how little-is
within our power.“

—  Emily Dickinson American poet 1830 - 1886