Shorter Quotes

258 Shorter quotes by 222 unique authors

As I get older, I become more imaginative and feel like I have maybe a shorter time to get a lot of things going on… — Sarah Brightman
When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in… — Ian Frazier
I like editing. Generally, you work under the assumption that everything can be shorter. I like to see if I can reconstruct a sentence. I… — Sheldon Harnick
The car resembles a dragon fly or any other jumping animal that moves shorter distances in straight lines and then changes its direction at different… — Fritz Todt
I was very eager to produce an oscillator for short waves. I was doing science with microwaves, and I would get down to a few… — Charles H. Townes
There are guys you give the benefit of the doubt if they hold you up a little bit longer than normal, and you have that… — Tony Stewart
I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of not taking up so… — Karl Ove Knausgard
When I was a small boy, I was bullied more than most, mainly because I was a foot shorter than everyone else. — Robert Reich
Beast Books will be longer than conventional long-form magazine articles but shorter than conventional nonfiction books. They will be published digitally and distributed on multiple… — Tina Brown
With shorter clubs, your ball position should be just back of middle, to really promote hitting the ball first on a downward strike. — Ernie Els
I would say the biggest difference is that a movie is a shorter, more encapsulated experience, and a TV job is like having a regular… — Sarah Baker
I love palm strikes because you have a longer reach. Normally, when you give a left hook and then a right straight, you are too… — Bas Rutten
Physicians today, as human beings, are not exempt from the perverse economic pressures created by fee-for-service regimes to see more patients for shorter appointments and… — Mitch Kapor
Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done. — Sidney Hillman
We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and… — Bille August
Buzz has reduced my range. Running safely with him means using fewer and shorter routes, with multiple laps per day or multiple returns there per… — Joe Henderson
Sometimes, instead of purchasing a commodity out and out, people want to buy only the use of it, for a longer or shorter period. The… — John Buchanan Robinson
I demonstrated the characteristics of experimental fever. It appears after an incubation period which is never less than five days. It follows the same pattern… — Charles Jules Henry Nicole
The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and… — Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time but actually gave… — Thomas Friedman
On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that… — Boris Spassky
I spent a long time working in restaurants and making no money. It was very character-building, but I think it could have been built in… — Graham Norton
In Boston I got to a point where I thought I was putting out fires more than being a baseball coach. And some of it… — Terry Francona
I believe that life is shorter; that is why we have to make experience longer. — Marina Abramovic
I was always the tallest girl in my class, and it made me have really bad posture because I wanted to seem shorter than I… — Katherine Webb

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