#short

If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#brain #circuit #dyslexic #eye #eyes

As the President reviewed the state of the union and unveiled his second-term agenda, he fell short of adequately explaining how he intends to set America back on the course of fiscal responsibility and secure the fiscal health of the nation. ↗

— Ron Kind

#agenda #america #back #course #explaining

When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#developing #difficult #electric #facilities #gasoline

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#anger #around #bitterness #carry #great

If my time with my kids is shorter than it was yesterday, it's better than nothing. ↗

— Maya Rudolph

#kids #my time #nothing #shorter #than

When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class. ↗

— Victor Salva

#class #could #deal #doing #english

A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously. ↗

— Andy Samberg

#always #anywhere #around #audience #certain

We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#coordinate #different #different world #international #into

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived. ↗

— George Saunders

#chekhov #ever #greatest #i #lived

I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application. ↗

— George Saunders

#against #application #argument #being #conclusions