#short

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#best #books #carefully #included #mature

I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf. ↗

— Kate Moss

#clothes #cut #design #designer #dress

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#far #however #impossible #inherent #least

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#been #days #death #elderly #experience

Wilder touches all the bases... in some kind of shorthand way. Now that's art. ↗

— James Naughton

#bases #kind #now #shorthand #some

I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#crime #i #long #miss #nothing

I didn't plan to be a politician. The founder of our country, David Ben-Gurion, called me from the kibbutz to serve in the underground. We were short of manpower, short of arms. I was 24 years old. I was supposed to serve my country for one or two years. I am 89 years old this year, and I keep going. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#arms #called #country #david #founder

The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#against #cause #discrimination #east #educational

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#end #falls #in the end #never #paid

It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures. ↗

— John Phillips

#built #creatures #death #frustration #horses