#short

During my time, there might have been one pitcher or two that were top pitchers on a team. Teams that won maybe had three, but today they have a lot of depth. They have a lot of long relievers, short relievers, and the strategy is different. ↗

— Ernie Banks

#depth #different #during #had #long

I had my shortcomings - crazy hair, braces, bad skin and all that stuff. I went through it all. ↗

— David Boreanaz

#braces #crazy #had #hair #i

To make pleasures pleasant shortens them. ↗

— Charles Buxton

#pleasant #pleasures #shortens #them

I did play two years of high school football and was very short and uncoordinated but the second year I was very tall and skinny and very uncoordinated. ↗

— Kyle Chandler

#football #high #high school #i #play

The problem with making an extrinsic reward the only destination that matters is that some people will choose the quickest route there, even if it means taking the low road. Indeed, most of the scandals and misbehavior that have seemed endemic to modern life involve shortcuts. ↗

— Daniel Pink

#misbehavior #scandal #shortcuts #life

It's just an ice bucket with a bottle in it. The two flute glasses are little tray. I got to shut the curtains. I'm in my boxer shorts and shirt. I'm going to take a bath and go to bed. But I want to shut the blinds so it's really dark in the room. ↗

— Danny DeVito

#bed #blinds #bottle #boxer #bucket

What they say about TV shows is true. You're really a family. You laugh, you fight, you get close, you know? Movies are shorter. They're over quicker. You don't form the same bonds. ↗

— James Gandolfini

#bonds #close #family #fight #form

You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings. ↗

— Richard Grant

#discrepancy #hoped #imagined #look #reality

We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for this Nation. ↗

— Raul Grijalva

#cannot #country #creating #defeat #division

She craved a family, not having had enough of one to understand what a pain in the ass it was. ↗

— Maile Meloy

#short-story #spy-vs-spy #family