#short

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor. ↗

— Marguerite de Valois

#cut #does #her #holding #hopes

Eat my shorts! ↗

— Matt Groening

#shorts

An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#international #leads #long #long run #motivated

I always think it's important to choose your initial theme very carefully because you're going to be married to it for a long time. You might have to generate an hour's worth of music from a very short, little piece of theme. ↗

— Anne Dudley

#because #carefully #choose #generate #going

There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#life #life is too short #short #time #too

The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage. ↗

— William Bligh

#application #considering #her #i #much

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#eternity #fear #grieve #long #rejoice

We should remember it wasn't so long ago that confidence in New York was in short supply. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#confidence #long #new #new york #remember

I'm actually a very shy person, which is why I always chose to be in the kitchen. You can make people happy and entertain them, without really being there. You can make a very short appearance and then say, 'I've got something on the stove, gotta go!' ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#always #appearance #being #being there #chose

And then the last album, "Get It", was done over a shorter period of time and I started using other musicians, as opposed to playing all the instruments myself like I did on the other two. ↗

— Dave Edmunds

#did #done #get #i #instruments