#short

I think it is very important that I should have a talk with you as soon as possible on a highly secret matter. I mentioned it to you shortly after you took office but have not urged it since on account of the pressure you have been under. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#after #been #highly #i #i think

It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that. ↗

— Lesley Garrett

#fame #fortune #go #idol #like

Recently, I went up to Casino Rama to see Martin Short's show, just to see how he put it all together. And after the show, I went backstage and picked his brain to find out why he did certain things. ↗

— Trish Stratus

#backstage #brain #casino #certain #certain things

The media love coarse debate because coarse debate drives ratings and ratings generate profits. Unless the TV producer happens to be William Shakespeare, an argument is more interesting than a soliloquy - and there will never be a shortage of people willing to argue on TV. ↗

— John Sununu

#argument #because #coarse #debate #drives

Short term memory is not good. ↗

— Jim McMahon

#memory #short #short term #term

Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#box #god #man #short #too

My career was obviously cut shorter than I wanted it to be. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#cut #i #obviously #shorter #than

Life is short and progress is slow. ↗

— Gabriel Lippmann

#life is short #progress #short #slow

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves. ↗

— Ben Stein

#bought #credit #default #did #funds

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#books #did #fiction #i #kept