#shorten

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

We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success. ↗

— Neil Innes

#been #best #big #big success #cabaret

Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#especially #loan #make #off #over

Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency. ↗

— Hugh Sidey

#campaigning #correspondent #did #era #having

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