#short

Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have. ↗

#being #capacity #exactly #human #human being

I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#foot #host #i #late-night #late-night talk

I think it is very important that I should have a talk with you as soon as possible on a highly secret matter. I mentioned it to you shortly after you took office but have not urged it since on account of the pressure you have been under. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#after #been #highly #i #i think

It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that. ↗

— Lesley Garrett

#fame #fortune #go #idol #like

The media love coarse debate because coarse debate drives ratings and ratings generate profits. Unless the TV producer happens to be William Shakespeare, an argument is more interesting than a soliloquy - and there will never be a shortage of people willing to argue on TV. ↗

— John Sununu

#argument #because #coarse #debate #drives

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#count #cynic #determines #done #idealist

Life is short, the art long. ↗

— Hippocrates

#life #life is short #long #short

Sports life is very short. ↗

— Sergei Bubka

#short #sports #very

The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#become #better #better singer #i #i think

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty. ↗