#short

I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#fell #i #kind #living #public

I would love to have a photographic memory. It would come in handy with the rants I'm given on Scrubs... often on short notice! ↗

— John C. McGinley

#given #handy #i #love #memory

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged. ↗

— Herman Melville

#dying #evermore #fellows #indulged #little

My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term. ↗

— Robert Menendez

#first #growing #long #long term #priority

Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest jokes are better than the shortest wars. ↗

— George Mikes

#better #even #jokes #least #longest

I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time. ↗

— Yao Ming

#back #because #fat #getting #going

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#between #crooked #distance #line #lines

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#character #give #helps #life #past

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#best #books #carefully #included #mature

Long hair is a security blanket for me. I cut it short a few years ago and I really never want to do that again. When I do cut it, I cut it myself. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#ago #blanket #cut #few #hair