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Quotes About Shorter

My patience, like my time in this world, grows shorter.
~ Rabih Alameddine
A life was a symphony, with different movements and complicated musical forms. A song was something shorter. A smaller piece of a life.
~ Alan Gratz
Just published Jeff Archer P.I. The Human Icicle . People compare it to Tom Clancy novels but shorter and more fun.
~ Ralph Richardson
There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
~ Abraham Cowley
You're much shorter than my mom." "Brat," she said, surprised into a giggle. "That's no way to talk to a vampire." "Bloodsucking brat." "Better" he said.
~ Rachel Caine
The way back is always shorter.
~ Maya Deren
Along a series of lines running from longer to shorter wavelengths the effect of the electric field becomes greater as the serial numbers increase - that is, as the wavelength decreases.
~ Johannes Stark
But failing to take the children's individual needs into account does not do them justice. There is no reason the child with the shorter sleep requirement should stay in bed longer than he needs to, for example, just because his brother sleeps later.
~ Richard Ferber
Even light comedy should be well motivated. It's foolish to assume that a shorter book needs any less attention in the GMC department. In fact, a shorter book needs stronger GMC. By that I mean clear, understandable GMC. Short books can't waste time rambling. You've got to set up your characters and get out of the way. A
~ Debra Dixon
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
~ Epictetus
I guess I don't really believe in retirement. I believe in shorter days and maybe in weekends!
~ Alice Waters
Since long workdays lead to more errors, shorter workdays could reduce accidents. Overtime is deadly. Tired surgeons have been found to be more prone to slip'ups, and soldiers who get too little shuteye are more prone to miss targets.
~ Rutger Bregman
Remember Binasco; it brought me tranquillity in all of Italy, and spared shedding the blood of thousands. Nothing is more salutary than appropriately severe examples.'78 'If you make war,' he would say to General d'Hédouville in December 1799, 'wage it with energy and severity; it is the only means of making it shorter and consequently less deplorable for mankind.
~ Andrew Roberts
If you would make war,' he would say to to General d'Hedouville in December 1799, 'wage it with energy and severity; it is the only means of making it shorter and consequently less deplorable for mankind.
~ Andrew Roberts
I don't believe in director's cuts where you make things longer. The coolest thing was when the Coen brothers did a director's cut of 'Blood Simple,' and they made it shorter.
~ Jason Reitman
the illness left one leg shorter than the other.
~ Ron Chernow
It's a big challenge to bowl against Dhoni, particularly in shorter version of the game, as Dhoni has proved himself as a best finisher of the game, but I will do my level best to perform well.
~ Ravindra Jadeja
Patsai gyvenimas yra mirimas, nes n?ra n? dienos, kuri jo nedaryt? viena diena trumpesnio.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I was genuinely starstruck when I met Kermit the Frog. Like many stars here tonight, he's a lot shorter in real life.
~ Bret McKenzie
the shorter the time interval between eliciting the evidence and using it to improve instruction, the bigger the likely impact on learning.
~ Dylan Wiliam
I think one of the most exciting things about the whole digital side of publishing is that it eventually allows you to operate at any length. That also means shorter stuff, too.
~ Robin Sloan
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 the windows. When the daylight starts changing, I want to be out West.
~ Ian Frazier
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
~ Epictetus
The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I'm performing at The Palace Theatre.
~ Deborah Cox