You can think you've made it and yet the next day's press will always be waiting for you, the public will always ask more of you. In short, you can always do better!
I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.
Children are not only innocent and curious but also optimistic and joyful and essentially happy. They are, in short, everything adults wish they could be.
Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.
Rainforest land is mistakenly valued solely for the worth of its timber, mining and oil resources by short-sighted corporations and governments.
My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck.
If it’s the benefit to myself that drives my decisions, I can know that I’m driving down a long road with a short bridge.
I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span.
A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.
I imagine Heaven would have very nice weather - perfect climate where you can wear a leather jacket or shorts and a sweater.
When I was in elementary school, I was a big fan of the zip-off pants that could be turned into shorts. The Delia's catalog used to be my bible.
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.
While short sellers probably will never be popular on Wall Street, they often are the ones wearing the white hats when it comes to looking for and identifying the bad guys!
The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16.
Don't be afraid to start small, entrepreneurship takes courage to win, and look for quick wins while setting a short and long term vision
A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.
Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.
Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.
The Mississippi coast is not like south Florida, but it always seems warm enough for sandals and short-sleeved shirts, except for now and then.
