Quotes of: Shortness Keyword

You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.

Peter Maxwell Davies

When Marty Short and I get together, I sit down at the piano and play the score of 'Godspell.'

Paul Shaffer

The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be.

Stewart O'Nan

I was a short order cook in a pool hall in college. So, I am the fastest cook in the world.

Sharon Stone

What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun.

Sarah Vaughan

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

Tom T. Hall

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.

Janet Yellen

Kid's, Life's too short to be organized. Follow your dreams first, then organize later.

Kendall Schmidt

Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.

Ken Scott

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Lord Byron

I had one elegantly folded cookie—a short paper nerve baked in an ear.

Lorrie Moore

And most countries are now reducing the number of conscripts and increasing the professionals that are available because they're available on short notice.

Lord Robertson

Life’s too short to drink crappy coffee and cry over boys who don’t care.

Matty Healy

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

Michael Morpurgo

I think I'm more approachable with long hair. When it's short, I come across as being artsy and weird.

Selma Blair

I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.

Maurice Sendak

The only technology that can 'see' beneath the ground is radar imagery. But satellite imagery also allows scientists to map short- and long-term changes to the Earth's surface. Buried archaeological remains affect the overlying vegetation, soils and ...

Sarah Parcak

Find your way early, on the road of life. For the way is too long to be struggling, and far too short to be waiting.

Anthony Liccione

'Each One Lost' I wrote the day after I got home. My week in Afghanistan was a very short trip, but it was a powerful experience.

Bruce Cockburn

Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.

Norman Jewison

By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them.

Barton Gellman