Quotes of: Short-time Keyword

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

Lord Acton

From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.

Lion Feuchtwanger

I have short hands. That's why I have to bend up to notes; I can't always reach the frets.

Robin Trower

For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.

Sarah Bernhardt

When short guys start working out to bulk up. I like muscles, but I don't like really buff guys.

Nicole Eggert

I have worked hard to improve my consistency in my driving, irons, short game, and putting.

Natalie Gulbis

For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.

Amy Bloom

I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally.

Robbie Robertson

Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.

Jack Welch

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

Audrey Hepburn

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

Sergio Aragones

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Buddha

In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.

David Miliband

I do Twitter, but I'm still not great on it - I'm not good at writing short little jokes, so my Twitter's not really a jokey thing.

Cecily Strong

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

Lynn Abbey

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Samuel Johnson

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

W. Somerset Maugham

Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.

Mike Huckabee

When people flirt with despair about the future, they are less likely to take the actions necessary to safeguard it, focusing instead on the short-term.

Al Gore

The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.

Arthur Smith

Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

James Weldon Johnson