Shorter Quotes

In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.

Buzz has reduced my range. Running safely with him means using fewer and shorter routes, with multiple laps per day or multiple returns there per week. Neither of us minds repeating ourselves. This is what runners do.

We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter.

I've always looked up to him, even though he is shorter.

Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter.

It doesn't seem as if there's that much of a difference between a big production and a little production, other than you have a smaller space in which to get dressed and you have a shorter waiting time.

Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

When my hair was shorter, I used to get it done every couple of days... but I got tired of that.

I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the draft. I have worked out primarily against shorter and supposedly faster players in these workouts.

I think everybody else in Hollywood, including network execs, has the opportunity to ask for a raise or a change in scenery in a much shorter time frame than actors. But I do think the networks have to protect themselves.

I have shaved my head. My flowing locks are now quite a bit shorter.

When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.

My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.

I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see.

Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.

Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter.

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships.

He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film.

The finer the bait, the shorter the wait!

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?

On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches.

And then the last album, "Get It", was done over a shorter period of time and I started using other musicians, as opposed to playing all the instruments myself like I did on the other two.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I don't think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to.

I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.

Common sense solutions to lowering your gasoline bills can go far. Carpooling, taking fewer or shorter road trips, and ensuring that your tires are fully inflated can all help stop the pinch at the pump.