#short

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

Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#baseball #did #effort #family #gaming

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ↗

— Beverly Sills

#going #place #shortcuts #worth

I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#directing #doing #films #i #lord

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. ↗

— Alan Turing

#distance #done #needs #only #plenty

I was a girly-girl until I moved to New York. Then I got really into the androgynous look of the early-'90s club scene. I had really short hair and started blurring the line a bit. But for me, grade school was about Benetton, Esprit, and Guess jeans. ↗

— Chloe Sevigny

#androgynous #bit #club #club scene #got

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#hours #make #pleasure #seem #short

But I would argue that a longer war it's more difficult to keep records than a shorter war. ↗

— Christopher Shays

#difficult #i #keep #longer #more

Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops. ↗

— William Shawn

#just #never #perfection #process #short

We knew shortly after the war that our troops were becoming ill. ↗