A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.
Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.
In our springtime there is no better, there is no worse. Blossoming branches burgeon as they must. Some are long, some are short. Stay upright. Stay with life.
By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.
War is sometimes described as long periods of boredom punctuated by short moments of excitement. History is often similar, if rather safer.
I was just a big guy running down with a big, deep pocket and little short stick putting it against my chest.
To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.
I enjoy mixed audiences, not one particular group. Short, tall, scientists, Jews, gentiles, whatever, as long as they breathe and like to laugh.
To come up short when you reach too far is not such a bad thing rather than not to reach at all, right?
Unless it's a dead-straight short putt, you should focus on a spot somewhere along the line you want to roll the ball on.
I started making little short films with friends, and then I decided I wanted to get into the school play in high school.
In short, philosophical theories are largely the product of the hidden hand of the cognitive unconscious.
The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.
For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.
Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.
What the investment community does like is short-term measures designed to boost share prices.
I made sure no butt cheek hung out. You know, the original Daisy, Catherine Bach's shorts were shorter than mine.
I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short.
It's true, I don't like the whole cutoff-shorts-and-T-shirt look, but I think you can look fantastic in casual clothes.
Life is so beautiful and so short that anything that makes me feel less than too much is nothing at all.
Life is simple and short but love is infinite and eternal. So give it away, as much as you can, without judging anyone.
