#shorten

One of the fellows called me 'Cyclone' but finally shortened it to 'Cy' and its been that ever since. ↗

— Cy Young

#called #ever #fellows #finally #me

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#lives #our #our lives #shortened #universally

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. ↗

— Buddha

#being #candle #candles #decreases #happiness

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

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

#attention #mental #nothing #period #prolonged

Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency. ↗

— Hugh Sidey

#campaigning #correspondent #did #era #having

If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out. ↗

— Alberto Juantorena

#athletes #because #burnt #calendar #career

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination. ↗

— Robert South

#contract #enlarge #faculty #fancy #far

I have a crusade against fondant, also shortening. There's no reason why wedding cakes can't taste good if you know what you're doing. ↗

— Ron Ben-Israel

#also #cakes #crusade #doing #good

We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success. ↗

— Neil Innes

#been #best #big #big success #cabaret