#short

The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I keep it mostly in my head. I usually start writing a new book around January, and it's due October 1. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#around #book #due #head #i

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

Nobody ever won a pennant without a star shortstop. ↗

— Leo Durocher

#nobody #pennant #shortstop #star #without

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

To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#almost #certain #certainly #coupled #divorced

The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#biggest #business #disappointment #number #people

Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys' choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#being #choir #clear #enjoyed #found

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

Buzz has reduced my range. Running safely with him means using fewer and shorter routes, with multiple laps per day or multiple returns there per week. Neither of us minds repeating ourselves. This is what runners do. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#day #fewer #him #laps #means

Gerisik angan dan deru lembut laju harapan. Waktu itu adalah menit-menit akhir menjelang malam di Bukit Angin. Daun-daun berwarna-warni dalam berbagai wujud melayang ke langit dan berkumpul mengelilingi puncak pusaran angin. Di sana, di balik awan, beradalah studio Sang Pelukis. ↗

— Fredrik Nael

#fantasy-fiction #hope #indonesian #short-story #dreams