#short

When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class. ↗

— Victor Salva

#class #could #deal #doing #english

A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously. ↗

— Andy Samberg

#always #anywhere #around #audience #certain

I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills. ↗

— Gale Sayers

#had #i #lot #short #thrills

I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference. ↗

— John Sayles

#first #get #getting #got #i

Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term. ↗

— Michael Schudson

#ad #agency #chances #client #either

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us. ↗

— John Selden

#best #giving #god #god almighty #good

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#long #patterns #precepts #short #way

I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970. ↗

— Amartya Sen

#choice #collective #delhi #i #left

I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#i #short #silly #simple #something

Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#care #different #government #help #life