NOVEL, n. A short story padded.
Being prepared for a job is a good idea for the short term, but it is not enough for the long term.
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections
Never sell tomorrow short. There's plenty to get excited about. Be filled with expectation, hope and confidence. Believe something good is going to happen - and it usually will.
Life is too short to spend in negativity. So I have made a conscious effort to not be where I don't want to be.
Initially let your food do the talking. You'll be surprised how far you go in a short period of time.
Oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long term.
It is apparent that nothing short of contraceptives can put an end to the horrors of abortion and infanticide.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Iambics march from short to long;-- With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng
When Tim asked me to do Frankenweenie, he had his original sketches from before he did the short, of what Sparky looked like, and he drew Victor and some of the other crucial people. The remarkable thing about working with Tim is that, once he's read a script, he sketches out everybody else.
The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office a short term, and many of these things take a long time.
Why not? Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain - and this is a chance for something special.
The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.
History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever.
There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.
The English were relatively short in the mid-nineteenth century and so their expeditions return with stories some exaggerated, not doubt about "giants" who lived in other parts of the world.
Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short. . . was she happy? Not for a moment.
Patience is a virtue, and Americans have it in short supply.