#shorter

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

— Elizabeth Taylor

#greater #lfe #our #patience #shorter

If Stuart is a freak... it is because he has had the superhuman strength not to be defeated by this isolation. It is because he has had the almost unbelievable social adroitness to be able to fit in smoothly with an educated, soft-skinned person like myself and not make me frightened half to death. If Stuart's a freak, I salute freaks. ↗

— Alexander Masters

#friendship #homeless #strength #stuart-shorter #death

The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I'm performing at The Palace Theatre. ↗

— Deborah Cox

#close #close proximity #club #i #intense

The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation. ↗

— Brian Eno

#attention spans #coming #dominant #getting #hollywood

I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships. ↗

— Calista Flockhart

#had #i #long #relationships #shorter

Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter. ↗

— Marie Windsor

#bending #close-up #got #him #how

So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I don't think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to. ↗

— Lee Ann Womack

#ever #get #guitar #hits #i

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

— Victor Hugo

#life #make #short #shorter #still

When my hair was shorter, I used to get it done every couple of days... but I got tired of that. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#days #done #every #get #got

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#had #i #leisure #letter #long