All Quotes

Short films don't go too far.
‐‐ Matthew McGrory

Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.
‐‐ John Lasseter

Short form media is reductionist by nature.
‐‐ Jon Krakauer

Short naps are good. Given modern workplace demands, this is not possible for many people - but if you have the option, try napping for ten to twenty minutes in the afternoon, preferably lying down in a darkened room.
‐‐ Andrew Weil

Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.
‐‐ Curt Schilling

Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.
‐‐ Ken Livingstone

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
‐‐ Charles Peguy

Short of hiring a new staff, consider giving subpar workers a chance to improve. Tell them why they're not measuring up and give them a set amount of time to make specific improvements.
‐‐ Danny Meyer

Short of screaming-hot Thai food, everything can be suitable for kids too.
‐‐ Guy Fieri

Short of spending $10,000, there is nothing you can do to your head to hide the fact that you're going bald.
‐‐ Jennifer Coolidge

Short of taking monastic vows or trekking into the Kalahari, a freighter passage might just offer what our relentlessly connected age has made difficult, if not impossible: splendid isolation.
‐‐ Christopher Buckley

Short-sellers perform a useful function in the market as conduits of negative information, and shorts often complain that they are discriminated against by regulators.
‐‐ Gary Weiss

Short sellers sell stock they have borrowed, hoping to buy it back later when its price has fallen.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

Short stories are my favorite art form. A good one is compact and complete, a telling little slice of life, capturing a moment in time that - for the character - defines her, changes her, is the tipping point for all that will follow.
‐‐ Ellen Klages

Short stories are often strong meat. Reading them, even listening to them, can be challenging, by which I do not mean hard work, simply that a certain amount of nerve and maturity is required.
‐‐ Sarah Hall

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.
‐‐ Anthony Doerr

Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.
‐‐ Ali Smith

Short stories, for me, it's like you step inside this brand new car and you drive it and you drive it into a tree and you walk away from it.
‐‐ Kevin Wilson

Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths.
‐‐ John Stockwell

'Short Term 12' was such a marathon. It's like trying to convey the same emotional depth as 'The Gambler' but with less time and a fingernail's worth of the budget.
‐‐ Brie Larson

Short term memory is not good.
‐‐ Jim McMahon

Short-term thinking is the greatest enemy of good government.
‐‐ Anthony Albanese

Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.
‐‐ Jim Harrison

Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously.
‐‐ Lee De Forest

'Shortcomings' was me figuring out who I am.
‐‐ Adrian Tomine

Shorter daylight hours can affect sleep, productivity and state of mind. Light therapy, also known as phototherapy, may help. It uses light boxes emitting full-spectrum light to simulate sunlight.
‐‐ Andrew Weil

Shorter work - personal essays and book reviews - allow me to take a break from working on a book, which is good for the book and for its author.
‐‐ Kathryn Harrison

Shortly after her feeding tube is removed, Terri Schiavo receives the Catholic ceremony of last rites. Michael Schiavo stays in a room down the hall. He remains at his wife's side throughout the day, except when her immediate family comes to see Terri.
‐‐ Mark Fuhrman

Shortly after I started working as a doctor, I decided to listen to the voice inside me before it was too late. It was now or never, so I decided to explore acting.
‐‐ Jonathan LaPaglia

Shortly after I turned 13, Child Welfare took me into care. I was sent to a residential centre where girls with behavioural problems were 'evaluated'. My time there comes back to me now only in flashes of smells, images and sounds.
‐‐ Liz Murray

Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter.
‐‐ Aaron Klug

Shortly after my dad died, my mom figured that if I could do a few commercials, I'd get a college fund.
‐‐ Liam Aiken

Shortly after my Ph.D., Alfred Kastler urged me to accept a teaching position at the University of Paris. I followed his advice and started to teach at the undergraduate level.
‐‐ Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

Shortly after Pearl Harbor, FDR committed a most visionary act: He appointed a Harvard historian to write the official account of the U.S. Navy in World War II. Samuel Eliot Morison was given the rank of lieutenant commander, with the right to interview anyone of whatever status.
‐‐ Alistair Horne

Shortly after Senator Eugene J. McCarthy died in 2005 the age of 89, I became an honorary member of the committee starting a fellowship in McCarthy's name at his alma mater, Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.
‐‐ Kitty Kelley

Shortly after Sisi was elected, his administration announced cuts of 'subsidies' on natural gas and energy consumption and lowered those for bread and other goods. Such action was taboo during the Mubarak and Sadat presidencies for over half a century, but Sisi was able to convince Egyptians he was taking necessary action.
‐‐ Ahmed Zewail

Shortly after that, we got management problems over in England, and Judas Priest asked me to join.
‐‐ Glenn Tipton

Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting.
‐‐ Karen Thompson Walker

Shortly after the appointment of Britain's first-ever female police constable with officials powers of arrest, the Home Office declared that women could not be sworn in as police officers because they were not deemed 'proper persons'. It makes you wonder what those Home Office officials would say now to having a female Home Secretary.
‐‐ Theresa May

Shortly after the end of last season, I felt that I probably would not return for the 1999-2000 season. I also felt that I should take as much time as possible to sort through my feelings and make sure that my feelings were backed with conviction.
‐‐ Barry Sanders

Shortly after this, I placed my command on our extreme left, to watch and fight the enemy should he make another attack, and went to Cemetary Hill for observation.
‐‐ John Buford

Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys' choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much.
‐‐ James Weldon Johnson

Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him the timeline, because we had 90 days to get these prisons operational and transfer responsibility back to the Iraqis.
‐‐ Janis Karpinski

Shortly afterwards, I did a third one to repair the robotic arm of the station. This arm plays a very important role in the ongoing expansion of the station as well as in the deployment of solar panels.
‐‐ Philippe Perrin

Shortly afterwards my father told me that he might be going into the Eastern Zone of Germany. At that time my own mind was closer to his than it had ever been before, because he also believed that they are at least trying to build a new world.
‐‐ Klaus Fuchs

Shortly before I turned 37 and my older daughter turned 3, I was diagnosed with breast cancer: stage III of IV.
‐‐ Kelly Corrigan

'Shortly Thereafter' chronicles all the aspects of an Afghanistan deployment, from the terrors of the unknown that await before leaving, to the perverse thrills and adrenaline rushes found in combat, to the return home to a land and a people now more foreign than the war itself was.
‐‐ Matt Gallagher

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.
‐‐ Donna Rice

Shorts are practically a uniform in every woman's closet. Tailored shorts are okay for running around, and if you're 18, you can get away with cut-offs. But it's very easy to make a mistake with shorts.
‐‐ Trinny Woodall