It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

What the Web has never figured out is how to pay for reporting, which, with the collapse of print newspapers, is in desperately short supply, and without which even the most prolific commenters will someday...

My short stature may have something to do with my tendency to shout when enraged. How else is anyone going to hear me way down here?

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

I’ve made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for...

Why is the place you drive on is a parkway, and the place you park on is the driveway?

We agree with Simpson and Bowles and others who have looked at this. What’s necessary is to stabilize the debt and then work from there. You can’t balance the budget in the short term because...

A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine.

Life’s too short not to have fun with what you wear.

You only need two waves in a heat, so I try and keep my surfs short and sweet and not too draining. Keep them intense and try and get the two best waves I can.

The only technology that can ‘see’ beneath the ground is radar imagery. But satellite imagery also allows scientists to map short- and long-term changes to the Earth’s surface. Buried archaeological remains affect the overlying vegetation,...

Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In short, we endure.

I was always in trouble at school for what I was wearing; I was never made a prefect because of the way I used to dress – I ripped my tights, my skirts were too...

Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

Life is too short not to experiment.

Long hair, for me, is actually less maintenance. I went through a phase when I was kid where I wanted a pixie cut. At the time I thought it looked awesome, but I look back...

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

Why do Americans choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America?

It’s getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.

Go out there and try on everything – short skirts, long skirts, mid length, little jackets, men’s clothing – and really look at yourself; really walk around in the clothes. Don’t just take someone else’s...

As for what I might wear, my mantra is that, no matter how chic the event, I don’t want to look too prim. I like wearing short cocktail frocks to black-tie events; it just always...

Neither the cat nor I missed you while you were gone. It’s worse than that. We danced the visitor-gone dance, flinging our feet (and paws) with particular glee. You remember the dance – the one...

I’ve read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a...

I discovered I scream the same way whether I’m about to be devoured by a great white shark or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.

When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.

You may be tall; you may be short. You may be a black; you may be a white. One more thing to keep behind your mind is that you “your purpose is unique”. Anyone who...

No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge’s ‘Dejection: An Ode’ has a rhyme scheme and sequence of long and short lines that goes without regular pattern,...

If you do a sketch, that’s a very short narrative. Stand-up, it’s bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.

What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun.

My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.

I never went through a period were I wanted to be a doctor, a cop or even a rock star. All I wanted to do was play short stop for the Yankees from the time...

Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.

There’s an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

The key to house prices is the share of foreclosure or short sales in the total housing market. When that share rises, house prices will fall, because distressed properties sell for significantly less – currently...

I had short hair for a while, but I ended up loving it.

Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?

I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants.

Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned...

A novel is just a story that hasn’t yet discovered a way to be brief.

On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise.

My nickname used to be Moses – still is Moses – for a long time, and people just call me Mo for short.

White Americans have a short memory.

With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.

YOU YOU YOUyour eyes, thick as a high school scrapbook crackling and yellow, curling at the edgesa book of myths in which i do not appear.

Every decade, we get a stunning collection of dynamic, heartbreaking short stories. In the past, those collections came from Barry Hannah, Mark Richard, and Thom Jones.

The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the quintessential measure of English verse.

In the U.S., we really have fallen short of road-racing facilities that have kept up with the times, unfortunately, but it’s a fact.