#shorten

One of the fellows called me 'Cyclone' but finally shortened it to 'Cy' and its been that ever since. ↗

— Cy Young

#called #ever #fellows #finally #me

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination. ↗

— Robert South

#contract #enlarge #faculty #fancy #far

A good system shortens the road to the goal. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#good #road #shortens #system

I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf. ↗

— Kate Moss

#clothes #cut #design #designer #dress

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#attempting #best #collect #directly #drama

A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail. ↗

— Sterling Hayden

#caucus #crew #democracy #go #inquire

If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out. ↗

— Alberto Juantorena

#athletes #because #burnt #calendar #career

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#lives #our #our lives #shortened #universally

I have a crusade against fondant, also shortening. There's no reason why wedding cakes can't taste good if you know what you're doing. ↗

— Ron Ben-Israel

#also #cakes #crusade #doing #good

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#ago #born #find #great #grow