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Short Quotes

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

Henry David Thoreau

Grief Man Shadow Sun Short Body

Sitcoms are usually given short shrift by the acting profession, but it's quite an amazing job.

Job Amazing Short Acting Profession

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics Memory Short Nothing

I have a very short attention span.

Frances McDormand

Short Attention Attention Span Very

I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I'm such a short little thing, I can't reach my kitchen cabinets.

Shoes Kitchen Short Reach Exercise

In short, you can't let the deadline define the mission. The mission has to define the duration.

Richard Holbrooke

Short Mission You Deadline Define

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.

Life Death Wise People Road Short

When I directed my first short - 'American Virgin' - I had no idea if I could actually do it. Like, I might just get onto set, have everyone look at me and just completely freeze and have no idea what to do. But pretty much the opposite of that happened. I was like a fish diving into the sea.

Tamzin Merchant

Sea Me American Short Fish Look

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.

Robert Benchley

I Am Short Talking Fall Party Being

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

Happiness Health Memory Short Wish

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.

Thought Process Language Short More

I've been into short stories ever since I read an Angela Carter collection when I was a teenager.

Lauren Mayberry

Short Been Read Collection Stories

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.

Happy Mind World Better Short Wish

I'm the sort of person with a very short attention span, and I lose interest in things very quickly.

Short Attention Lose Person Things

Of course China is an important new market for Tod's, and of course we need to succeed commercially. But I believe the way to do that is not to aim to deliver results in the short term by thoughtless expansion, but instead to explain to the Chinese people what our brand is really about.

Diego Della Valle

People Succeed Believe Brand Short

And it turned out that the Roberts Commission did not fully utilize the information available and that it came to conclusions which were I think quite short sighted and, indeed, in some cases, scapegoated individuals.

Richard Ben-Veniste

Think Short Information Out Some

I was a lady gunda in school. Everyone was scared of me, and I was really short and round.

School Me Short Lady Scared Round

My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.

Life Short Now Everyday Tall She

In 2014, I knew my English was not so bad, but I had no confidence in talking directly to an English-speaking reporter. I had to do a short interview with, I think, Reuters from France. I was so nervous. I practiced memorizing three sentences for two hours. But, I think that these kinds of interviews make me develop a lot, and that helps me.

Confidence Me Think Short Talking

Publishing a short story can sometimes feel like shouting into the dark... your words come out, and then nothing... but I don't think that's why I tend to write novels rather than stories.

Alice McDermott

Words Story Think Short Feel Dark

I am short, so even if there are things that I like, or like on other people, I have to be aware that sometimes that won't work on me because I'm not 5'10. It has to have a shape for my body; otherwise, I look like I am two inches tall. I have to wear things that skim my body more closely than a runway model would.

Work I Am People Me Short Look

I'm a short, fairly plain person who's bluffing his case and getting away with it.

Short Person Away Plain Case His

A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government.

John Jay Hooker

Government People Me Democracy Short

I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.

Shoes Child Hair Black Short Reason

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