#short

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings. ↗

— Irvin S. Cobb

#individual #laugh #may #never #own

And it turned out that the Roberts Commission did not fully utilize the information available and that it came to conclusions which were I think quite short sighted and, indeed, in some cases, scapegoated individuals. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#came #cases #commission #conclusions #did

If you do television, and it's great, it's the best job there is. Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. I love that it's like theater too, and the audience, and it's so short, like twenty minutes... It's like a Haiku or something. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#audience #best #better #every #figure

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#brief #dali #down #finished #gave

Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while. ↗

— Simon Fowler

#days #drink #get #gone #shortest

One of the things I had a hard time getting used to when I came to California in '78 was Santa Claus in shorts. ↗

— Dennis Franz

#came #claus #getting #had #hard

Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#generation #kind #length #like #our

Our tree is actually a tree of the short-term interest rate. The average direction in which the short-term interest rate moves depends on the level of the rate. When the rate is very high, that direction is downward; when the rate is very low, it is upward. ↗

— John Hull

#average #depends #direction #downward #high

I have worked hard to improve my consistency in my driving, irons, short game, and putting. ↗

— Natalie Gulbis

#driving #game #hard #i #improve

I even believe in helping an employer function more productively. For then, we will have a claim to higher wages, shorter hours, and greater participation in the benefits of running a smooth industrial machine. ↗

— Sidney Hillman

#benefits #claim #employer #even #function