If I go back to the beginning, I could start it over again. I could go line by line; try and find a shorter way. I could try to make it. . . better.
Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
As far as rearing children goes, the basic idea I try to keep in mind is that a child is a person. Just because they happen to be a little shorter than you doesn't mean they are dumber than you.
I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.
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.
We discovered that we have a fun chemistry physically. Cameron [Diaz] has really long legs and a short torso, and I have a really long torso and shorter legs.
My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.
This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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.
Faced with such insecurity, labor unions seek a solution in demands for higher wages, shorter hours, pensions, and such things. But this approach takes monopolistic capitalism for granted, and accepts the unnatural division between property and responsibility as permanent. A much more radical solution is apt to come, and this may take either of two forms.
The difference between now and when I played during my younger days is my drives are shorter and my short game is longer.
Being a CEO used to be something you did for 15 years. Now you do it for five, maybe. The lifespan is getting shorter and shorter, regardless if you are a man or a woman.
The finer the bait, the shorter the wait!
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
If he's having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 meters. . . nobody except me.
Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.
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.
My career was obviously cut shorter than I wanted it to be.
