Don't take a golden sword to cut a radish.
Useful trees are cut down first.
To condemn by a cutting laugh comes easily to all.
Cut down the tree that you are able to.
Desperate cuts must have desperate cures.
Measure a thousand times and cut once.
Measure a thousand times, cut once.
Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words have been translated into ideas and dreams. That's because a good short story crosses the borders...
You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done.
Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.
I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in time it wasn't in the Olympic Games so I moved into long track. Short track is a blast to skate and it's a blast to watch.
It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.
My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal agencies, and then ask each of my new agency heads to find another ten percent by drilling down. That's what you do in business to come up with a...
I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you w...
You name it, we're out there with the latest and the best cutting edge.
Everyone in Sweden has great hair and teeth and is clean-cut and organised.
I like clean-cut, very proper, very elegant looks.
Cutting edge, breakthrough, television. That's what we want to do.
I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.
