Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths.
Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.
A spiritual 'spurter' is one who is given to short bursts of spectacular effort followed by frequent and lengthy periods of rest.
most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road.
I look forward to the spring vegetables because the season is so short. Mushrooms, edible foraged herbs, wild leeks, early season asparagus.
The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.
To many people fall short of their goals because they mistakenly believe that losing is just another comfortable place to sit.
'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.
The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the quintessential measure of English verse.
I find that as long as I'm acting it doesn't matter if it's for TV, or a series or a short film. I always have fun no matter what I'm doing.
Kissing could have begun as a way of sniffing out who's who. From a whiff to a kiss was just a short trip across the face.
I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it.
To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?
The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.
I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.
Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.
I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly illuminated with a kind of mock sunset. This in a short time disappeared, to be soon succeeded by another similar in character, but more faint.
On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise.
But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.
In terms of the pilot, you have to introduce a lot of characters in a very short period of time, and you have to paint with slightly broad brush strokes because you just need to give an audience an idea of who these people might be.
