Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).
A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.
I knew Kathy Joosten; we worked together on a very short-lived series called 'Thanks' for CBS.
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
One of the reasons I wrote 'Airborn' was that I'd fallen in love with the great passenger airships which flew in the '20s and '30s. Their time was short-lived. They were frail, they tended to crash; and they could never be as fast, safe and efficient as the airplanes that replaced them.
My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.
I want people to know me for my singing. I've never been searching for a label of being a fashion plate or a top model. That's a thing that's very short-lived, and it's dealing with a superficial level of this which doesn't really appeal to me.
I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
Being a model, you know, it's a short-lived vocation.
I've continued to write fiction since being in television. TV is a different kind of writing, but it's all writing. It was David Milch of 'Deadwood' who helped me to see it that way. We later collaborated on the short-lived 'John from Cincinnati,' but I'm very proud of the work we did together.