#short

Well, we're just now seeing the reductions in mortgage rates. The mortgage rates are based on the ten-year rate and the Fed controls the overnight or the shorter rates. ↗

— Franklin Raines

#controls #fed #just #mortgage #now

So I - the thought that I would physically be different was - it's not a thrill, I have to tell you. It's kind of - it brings you up short. But I was able to look at it right away. ↗

— Lynn Redgrave

#away #be different #brings #different #i

A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100,000 short. ↗

— Mickey Rooney

#am #asked #divorce #how #i

What we're going to do is redouble our efforts on financial regulatory reform, because that has in it sensible things like say on pay, so at least the shareholders are minding the store, sensible things like saying, for heaven's sakes, compensation should be focused on - on long term, so that you don't have rewards for short-term risk-taking. ↗

— Christina Romer

#compensation #efforts #financial #focused #going

When I was in school, I got there on the first day and everyone had long, blonde, straight hair, and I had short, dark, curly hair. I immediately felt I didn't fit in and started growing my hair. But I've learned that I'm only happy when I am truly me and feel comfortable and confident in myself. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#blonde #comfortable #confident #curly #dark

We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future. ↗

— Mike Rounds

#better #better future #cause #cheap #criticism

I was frustrated because I couldn't get going, as I was trying to figure out how to make films. I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films. ↗

— David O. Russell

#because #class #day #figure #films

Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of cancels all the smart and interesting stuff out. ↗

— Liev Schreiber

#everyone #generally #interesting #interesting stuff #kind

and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood. ↗

— James Joyce

#irish_short_stories #love #love

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#fiction #form #likely #more #short