There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.
I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers or brain cleansers.
The way to a woman's heart might best be reached via a short cut.
I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.
The U.S. has a stronger military than Israel, but, but don't short-change Israel, either. Don't short-change them.
I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it.
One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.
They say anything can happen in a short series. I just didn't expect it to be that short.
The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.
I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.
Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
How much time do I get in exchange for that rose?” For the rose, a short engagement. For the speech, you get a lifetime.” I can live with that,” he said, and kissed her.
A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through to the big time and become failed novelists.
Let not thy heart cling to the things which for so short a time deck out thy life. Let him who has, learn to lose, and him who is happy, familiarise himself with what may give pain.
Home. That wonderful place I was lucky enough to revisit no matter how short a time finally realizing it's not relegated to just one single place its wherever you make it.
How strange it was to think that he, who such a short time ago dared not believe in the happiness of her loving him, now felt unhappy because she loved him too much!
I'm sorry. I behaved like a jerk. You did. Is that forgiveness? I'm not sure. I think it's an acknowledgment of imperfection. And an admission that I believe time is too short to hold a grudge.
But when we moved to the country, miles from the nearest restaurant, his hints anent his favorite dies grew so insistent that it became a question of tripe or divorce, and for a short time it was a difficult decision.
It is truly bracing and instructive to contemplate the End Times - at least at safe remove, in the pages of fiction - especially as the world beyond our hearths churns and convulses unknowably, yet perhaps just short of ultimate disaster.
On the Brevity of Our Ties Ties in this world last only for a time. We are husband and wife, parent and child, for a short period only. Once this reality sinks in, we cannot help treasuring each moment of our brief association.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of e...
