Top 100 Quotes About Shorter
#1. The first two years I was on 'MADtv' were really, really fun. We always thought it was 'Saturday Night Live's very nice, slightly asthmatic, shorter cousin.
Ike Barinholtz
#3. 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
#4. He was about an inch shorter than me, about half the width of me, and certainly not as good looking. Not everyone can be me. Who
J.R. Rain
#5. Crisis' seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the richest nation in the world, African Americans in Harlem live shorter lives than the people of Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations of the world.
Johnnetta B. Cole
#6. 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
#7. The best things in life are not only free, but the line is shorter.
Robert Breault
#8. 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
#9. From my own personal standpoint, I've always preferred my hair shorter because it's just easier.
Charlie White
#10. I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal
#11. The larger a star the shorter its life, but all the more fascinating its death. As it collapses within it's body, the infalling material can be no longer be compressed; the star is blown to pieces; its shattered mass realeases out ward at the speed of light.
Kelly Easton
#12. Make a conscious effort to loosen your hands and let your arms feel soft when you're at address. Take the club back a bit shorter, and feel as if you're cracking a whip on the way down - not tensing up to smash something hard.
Ernie Els
#13. Write your goals down in detail and read your list of goals every day. Some goals may entail a list of shorter goals. Losing a lot of weight, for example, should include mini-goals, such as 10-pound milestones. This will keep your subconscious mind focused on what you want step by step.
Jack Canfield
#14. The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be.
Loesje
#15. Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter.
Marie Windsor
#16. You walk into the playgrounds in Shanghai and Beijing, and you see youngsters who are shorter, shaking and baking and having attitude. And Jeremy Lin is going to inspire all of them.
David Stern
#17. Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.
Peter Thiel
#18. I'm sorry this letter is so long. I didn't have time to make it shorter.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#19. I keep exercising even when the days are much shorter. Not only is this a great stress reliever for me to get in a nice run, but it's also my 'me time' when I can just get away from all the holiday season obligations.
David Niu
#20. I honestly don't remember how I wrote or did the songs. Or the sessions. They all become very much a blur. And each album is like that. It may be that there are different locations, it may take longer, shorter, or whatever, but it's always something that just happened.
Lenny Kravitz
#21. She'd chopped it too. It was longer than Matt's, shorter than Kellan's, somewhere in between like ... Denny. Fuck. I looked like Denny now. Anna was gonna flip when she saw this. After my hair was completely fucked, Harold took me to meet the rest of the cast.
S.C. Stephens
#22. But I would argue that a longer war it's more difficult to keep records than a shorter war.
Christopher Shays
#23. Film is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you're dealing with a lot more characters, a lot more locations, and you're able to rely on things that you just can never do on the stage.
Beau Willimon
#24. When writing emails, the rule is, the shorter and more effective your email, the better.
Jason Luong
#25. Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.
Mark Twain
#26. Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.
Frank Shorter
#27. You give Europeans once again 'all benefits that they can eat', you make them work shorter hours, and you give more money, and they'd be back in a self-congratulatory, self-righteous mode; damned be the rest of the world.
Andre Vltchek
#28. He remembers noticing his dad's shadow was shorter than the others, and he had a visceral sense his father was weaker than the rest, and that he was more dangerous as a weak person with a lot of power than a powerful person with a lot of power.
Jardine Libaire
#29. Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly, except shorter and Jewish.
Denis Leary
#30. Maybe when we were shooting in the school, I was feeling more like it. Every time I go back to a school for work, I always feel so huge. Everything seems so little. The lockers seem smaller than I remember and the length of the hallways seem shorter when you're a kid.
Judy Greer
#31. 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 eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
#32. I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films.
Barry Sonnenfeld
#33. In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.
Frank Shorter
#34. 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 this control does not suit World Championship matches.
Boris Spassky
#35. The Bridge had a lot of long, soft profiles about the administration, .. In contrast, BU Today has shorter, hard pieces - more consistent with online journalism - which people can read every morning when they log on.
Craig David
#36. So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.
Frank Shorter
#37. 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 platforms, and will soon thereafter be available as handy paperbacks.
Tina Brown
#38. Hitting a shorter club to these greens means a great, great deal. Younger players are so much more capable length-wise.
Ben Crenshaw
#39. When I am totally race fit, I don't worry about breathing or technique - they take care of themselves.
Frank Shorter
#40. A baby is a small member of the home that makes love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, the bank roll smaller, the home happier, the clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for. - Laurens van der Post and Jane Taylor
David Jeremiah
#41. The longer the night, the shorter the morning
Adam Johnson
#42. Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives.
Charles Wheelan
#43. The time it takes to fall from the top of a mountain to the floor it shorter than what it takes to climb from the floor to the top. Only leaders with character can maintain their trusts.
Israelmore Ayivor
#44. I thought it was time to get a group together and the first person I thought of was Wayne Shorter. I called Wayne and in the meantime, Wayne called me to make an album with him, which was Super Nova.
Miroslav Vitous
#45. 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 as natural fever in man, but is of shorter duration and less pronounced.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole
#46. The most basic organizing principle was pretty straightforward, and is frankly pretty common: the shorter of what are by my lights the two most engaging stories goes first, the longer of the two goes at the end, and everything else goes in the middle.
Roy Kesey
#47. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
Lucy Stone
#48. Among the problems with shame was that it in fact did not make you shorter or quieter or less visible. You just felt like you were.
J.R. Ward
#50. People who experience negative or stressful emotions on an ongoing basis are less healthy and live shorter lives.
Tony Robbins
#51. There's a general rule that I always go by, and it's that you fall for who you fall for. Whatever small issue you get hung up on, whether it's because they're shorter than you, younger than you or they live far away - if you really are crazy about someone, none of that matters.
Taylor Swift
#52. It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#53. I like shorter jokes. I like fewer words. I think the more ideas there are the, the fewer words there should be.
Demetri Martin
#54. Every long sentence can be broken up into shorter ones, and if you don't know how - if you don't see within your long sentences groupings of simple, clear ideas - it will show.
June Casagrande
#55. Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.
Blaise Pascal
#56. 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 week. Neither of us minds repeating ourselves. This is what runners do.
Joe Henderson
#57. The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared.
Frank Shorter
#59. You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.
Wayne Shorter
#60. For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
Anonymous
#61. I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.
Sally Mann
#62. I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!
Wayne Shorter
#63. Day was about five inches shorter than him, but they complimented each other perfectly. Day was quick, witty, smart, skilled, and very dangerous.
A.E. Via
#64. 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 price paid for such temporary use is commonly called hire.
John Buchanan Robinson
#65. And then the last album, 'Get It', was done over a shorter period of time and I started using other musicians, as opposed to playing all the instruments myself like I did on the other two.
Dave Edmunds
#66. It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it ... The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.
Michel De Montaigne
#67. I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
Mark Twain
#68. 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 close for the right straight. Why? Because the hook is shorter.
Bas Rutten
#69. Every play should be 90 minutes. There would be so many more theatre-goers if plays were shorter.
Eve Myles
#70. It's easier to fall back into old behaviors when you come back to a place where you were a shorter person.
Joseph Dougherty
#71. Maximum sentence length: seventeen words. Minimum:one No semicolons. Semicolons indicate relationships that only idiots need defined by punctuation. Besides, they are ugly. Make sure each sentence is at least four words longer or shorter than the one before it.
Richard Hugo
#72. I have tried to tell him in a dozen different ways that I am only six inches tall. I've told him I am as tall as his heart, that he could hold all of me in his hand, that I am shorter than I appear. Every time, he's acted as though I'm saying something romantic or poetic.
Jennie Bates Bozic
#74. Could a name be any shorter? Three letters without even the flourish of an e. Ann, a trio of curves and lines.
It means "full of grace".
Ann Voskamp
#75. Be willing to move forward and find out what happens next.
Frank Shorter
#76. [On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.
Blaise Pascal
#77. It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It is in supporting the child in an organized activity - and Bill alluded to this - so the child can find what they truly like to do and let them go.
Frank Shorter
#78. I spent five years, at least, working with Miles. Together, we recorded ESP, Nefertiti, Sorcerer
and I can tell you; each of these albums instantly became jazz classics. Hey, we had Wayne Shorter playing tenor sax, Ron [Carter] on bass, Tony Williams played drums. That was great band we had.
Herbie Hancock
#79. Well, we're just now seeing the reductions in mortgage rates. The mortgage rates are based on the ten-year rate and the Fed controls the overnight or the shorter rates.
Franklin Raines
#80. You have to know your body. It's part of the beauty of the training process, and once you've determined how much your body and mind can take, you can then begin to reach your potential.
Frank Shorter
#81. 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 information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter.
Bille August
#82. Why couldn't Pheidippides have died at 20 miles?
Frank Shorter
#83. With sentences, shorter is better than longer:
John Scalzi
#84. The shorter the visit, the quicker you'll be invited back.
C.J. Langenhoven
#85. The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants.
C. Walton Lillehei
#86. Everyone grieves in different ways. For some, it could take longer or shorter. I do know it never disappears. An ember still smolders inside me. Most days, I don't notice it, but, out of the blue, it'll flare to life.
Maria V. Snyder
#87. He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film.
Bille August
#88. The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.
Brian Eno
#89. As life speeds by, nostalgia has a shorter pregnancy. Games still in progress are given the straight-to-sepia status of "Instant Classics" no matter how oxymoronic that phrase appears.
Steve Rushin
#90. I made sure no butt cheek hung out. You know, the original Daisy, Catherine Bach's shorts were shorter than mine.
Jessica Simpson
#91. [When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!
Elizabeth I
#92. Shadow always had high hopes for haircuts, but they never lived up to his expectations.
After every haircut he looked more or less the same, only with shorter hair.
Neil Gaiman
#93. Reverend Fathers, my letters do not customarily follow one another so closely, nor are they usually so extensive. The little time I have had has caused both. I have made this one longer only because I have not had the leisure of making it shorter.
Blaise Pascal
#94. Thousands of candles can be lit by just one candle, and the life of that candle will not be shorter because of it. Happiness is never diminished by being shared.
Francesc Miralles
#95. I definitely have hips, and I'm shorter, so I like to make my legs look longer. I'll wear shorts or pants that elongate my legs. I'm not a tiny, skinny toothpick. I definitely like to show off my waist and my butt.
Jenna Ushkowitz
#96. The shorter story;
No love, no glory;
No hero in her skies.
Damien Rice
#97. The days grow shorter, the nights grow longer,
The headstones thicken along the way;
And life grows sadder, but love grows stronger
For those who walk with us day by day.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#98. Harry lit up, drew the smoke deep into his lungs and tried to imagine the blood vessels in the wall of the lung greedily absorbing the nicotine. Life was becoming shorter and the thought that he would never stop smoking filled him with a strange satisfaction.
Jo Nesbo
#99. The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?
Nazim Hikmet
#100. What are we? What is our life? Our goodness? Our righteousness? - THE ASHAMNU, the Jewish shorter confession
Larissa MacFarquhar
