Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
Poetry of all the forms of literature I think is the most suited for the digital age and for the shorter attention spans and all of that. It Twitters very easily, some lyric poems and it's very easy to zip a poem to someone, so that's one of the things I think is wonderful about poetry in the digital age.
My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
The evidence is that people who enter hospice don't have shorter lives. In many cases they are longer.
I turned to leave and paused before the gap in the ruined wall. "One last thing, Your Majesty. I'd like a name I can put into my report, something shorter than typing out 'The Leader of the Southern Shapechanger Faction. ' What should I call you?" "Lord. " I rolled my eyes. He shrugged. "It's short.
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.
One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear them talking, my mouth was open. They understand each other perfectly, and they make these leaps and jumps because they don't have to explain anything.
If he's having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 meters. . . nobody except me.
I do not intend to spare myself, not to avoid emotions or difficulties. I don't care much whether I live a longer or shorter time. . . the world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt toward it, because I have walked on this earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude I want to leave some souvenir.
The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed.
I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.
We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
The way back is always shorter.
I like to write a joke without any fat on it. The shorter the better. I cater for people with ADD, basically.
I always go into a bit of a funk when the days get shorter and there's not enough sunlight.
I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop
Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.
The day that you die will be like any other day. . . only shorter.
As a kid, I was a big reader. Books and theater were the way I understood the world, and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how to live a good life. I would read all night. My mom would come into my room and tell me I had to go to sleep, so I would hide books under my bed. At first I had a tough time getting through novels, so I read plays, because a play is generally shorter and has all those tools for getting people hooked early on.
