#shorter

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#capacity #greater #our #our time #patience

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. ↗

— Izaak Walton

#good #good company #journey #makes #seem

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#life #make #short #shorter #still

I've always looked up to him, even though he is shorter. ↗

— Geena Davis

#even #him #i #looked #shorter

I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time but actually gave me a much richer offering of research in a shorter time. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#basically #book #did #enormous #gave

There's only one movie in my career I've had regrets with cutting it shorter, and I think some scenes maybe I shouldn't have cut. ↗

— Ang Lee

#cut #cutting #had #i #i think

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer. ↗

— Robert Quillen

#bodies #get #grow #longer #older

Sometimes, instead of purchasing a commodity out and out, people want to buy only the use of it, for a longer or shorter period. The price paid for such temporary use is commonly called hire. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#called #commodity #commonly #hire #instead

It's hard to mix with a crowd when you're walking down the hallway and everybody else is a foot shorter. I remember hanging out with my friends, like at the mall, and thinking people were staring at me and talking about me. It made me turn inside myself. I became more shy and quiet. ↗

— Randy Johnson

#became #crowd #down #else #everybody

The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I keep it mostly in my head. I usually start writing a new book around January, and it's due October 1. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#around #book #due #head #i