#short

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#american #constitution #document #governing #greatest

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#best #closer #different #form #i

With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts. ↗

— Bruce Conner

#arts #became #being #couple #dabbled

If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#seem #short #sky #someone #support

My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize. ↗

— Queen Mary

#economize #go #had #parents #short

If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#connection #first #last #look #real

The trouble with records is that they're too short. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#short #too #trouble

I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time. ↗

— Wyclef Jean

#feel #good #good time #i #i feel

If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#brain #circuit #dyslexic #eye #eyes

It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time. ↗

— Waylon Jennings

#buddy #close #dealt #devastating #i