'Generations,' we slaved over for a year; we worked it over and over and over again, and in the end, it just fell short.
Ronald D. Moore
EndShortYearOverIn The EndJust
Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean.
William Henry Ashley
OceanMeShortConnectionPrincipal
I like working in children's books because it gives rise to such a variety of jobs. One month it may be a picture book, the next a retelling, the next a play, a short story or the start of the next novel.
Geraldine McCaughrean
ChildrenStartBookStoryShortMay
Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.
Keith Henson
GoodBestYourselfFightingShort
What gets posted online is not short term, and is open for easy misinterpretation. Messages and pictures spread faster through the Internet than they ever could by word of mouth.
Anna Maria Chavez
InternetShortEasyMouthPictures
When everyone is running the machine, and it's all working, there's a tendency to look at the short term and focus on incremental opportunities and not look ahead to the really big opportunities.
Abigail Johnson
FocusOpportunitiesShortLookAhead
I've got a short attention span, so it makes sense that I like movies because, for the most part, they immerse you in lots of action.
Doug Liman
ActionShortAttentionYouMovies
A computer, by definition, cannot be held accountable for anything because there is no mechanism to hold it to account, short of turning off the electricity supply or destroying the hardware. Only humans can be accountable.
Mark Walport
ShortElectricityAnythingHoldOff
Honestly, with stats and things like that, I try not to think about them. I just find that the more you think about goals and assists - what you need to do and accomplish - the more you tend to fall short. When you hope for something and you want something, it comes to you.
Alex Morgan
GoalsHopeThinkShortYouFall
If I find a dress I really like and it happens to be a bit short, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. The thing about going to Oxford is it does give you the confidence to be how you want to be.
Rachel Riley
ConfidenceSleepDressShortLose
I started by writing short stories, but they weren't very good; I tried them on various magazines, and none of them was published. People were nicer then about turning you down, and so I didn't lose heart - I kept on writing and wrote a lot of books, one or two of which I finished, and others I didn't.
Ruth Rendell
GoodHeartPeopleWritingShortYou
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?
Phyllis Diller
WordsHusbandShortSayCheapBeen
Britain can choose, as others are, short term fixes and more stimulus. Or we can lead the world with long-term solutions to long-term problems.
George Osborne
WorldProblemsShortChooseOthers
When I was younger, playing piano and guitar were all things that I wanted to do for a short period of time, like any kid.
Katie Cassidy
TimeGuitarShortKidPianoPlaying
I read way, way more Andre Norton than could possibly have been healthy. It was a short hop from her to the rest of the library's science fictional and fantastic holdings.
Ann Leckie
ScienceRestLibraryShortHealthy
I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants.
Aaron Neville
ShortFeelPantsYearsJustI Feel
In anything you write - in a short story, a poem - there has to be a counter-motion; it can't go all in one direction.
Donald Hall
StoryDirectionShortYouGoWrite
I've slipped on occasion into the realm of irresponsible invective, but I try to avoid it and generally recant when I fall short. Because name-calling does nothing to improve understanding or move the political debate forward.
Mark McKinnon
ForwardShortPoliticalUnderstanding
In my opinion, terrorism is a question which is not a short- term problem for all of us. It is a long-term fight. And NATO can play, and will play, a very crucial role in this struggle.
Aleksander Kwasniewski
StruggleFightOpinionShortProblem
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
Queen Elizabeth II
LifeFamilyGreatServiceShortYou
We humans are still a very primitive culture, and it's one of the traps we've fallen into over the course of our lives - to forget our history. That's why George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' is so profound. It chronicles our short memory.
RuPaul
HistoryCultureAnimalMemoryShort
I was short until my senior year. It's just, like, your social status is so dependent on how quickly you hit puberty, basically.
Phil Lord
ShortYearYouSeniorStatusSocial
When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.
George Saunders
LoveWorldStoryShortYouWant
When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you're looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you're beginning to see the Earth evolve.
Gene Cernan
BeginningMoonLookingChanceShort
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