Shortly Quotes

175 Shortly quotes by 160 unique authors

Portal Bridge is based on a design from the 1840s and was already obsolete shortly after it was completed in 1910. It's a swing bridge… — Ray LaHood
Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way around… — Peter Lewis Allen
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.… — Karen Thompson Walker
The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo- Saxon contagion. — Matthew Arnold
My novel, which I had started with such hope shortly after publishing my first book of stories, wouldn't budge past the 75-page mark. Nothing I… — Junot Diaz
I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the Soviet Union. — Vera Farmiga
Everyone has their dates. For me, it's 1991. I can place every memory of my life either before or after this date. It's the year… — Christian Louboutin
Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be… — Herman Melville
I was shortly again at the castle, and the Princess gave me her hand to kiss and then brought her children, the young princes and… — Max Muller
As for my personal life, I'd love to start a family of my own. I think I'd make a great dad, and I think shortly… — Matthew Perry
once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come to… — Aesop
There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me,… — Isabel Allende
...wrote Lawrence Block. "Someone once told me that fear and courage are like lightning and thunder; they both start out at the same time, but… — Ralph Keyes
It was quite impossible to describe. Here is what it looked like. It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well.… — Terry Pratchett
They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly… — Jane Austen
It may merely be apocryphal that when the Wizard saw the glass bottle he gasped, and clutched his heart. The story is told in so… — Gregory Maguire
Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and hours of it,… — Laurence Sterne
There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perfect innocence of some imminent pain, misfortune, or… — Michael Chabon
Through an arrow loop in the wall she saw a familiar horse and rider tearing across the camp toward the healing rooms. Brigan pulled up… — Kristin Cashore
In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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