Zitat des Tages über Kürzeste / Shortest:
We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.
The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.
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.
The shortest answer is doing.
The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.
We're all very sensitive that Jim has the shortest history with the band. He wants to be somewhat of a free agent. I'm just going to let time dictate how Jim's future evolves.
What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.
One of the problems with being famous is people mob you wherever you go. Many of them ask very irritating questions. If I were not the shortest woman in the world, I would not have become famous.
We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
In modeling, my height was a big challenge to overcome, because I was pretty much the shortest girl on the runway whenever I was doing the catwalk. The clothes didn't fit and the shoes didn't fit. It was an issue, but luckily, it didn't prevent me from working.
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.
It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
The shortest path to more American jobs is more American energy and more jobs that relate to American energy.
Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.
But the shortest works are always the best.
The shortest answer is doing the thing.
I was the runt of the family, the shortest and the smallest, so I think they perceived me as the one who was like, 'Look at me!' - just trying to get their attention and being a goofball.
A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.
Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.
I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
'No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.
I grew up Catholic. We went to confession on Saturday, stood in the shortest line, since it led to the priest who gave the easiest penance - usually a few Our Fathers and Hail Marys. We confessed in private, prayed our penance and our souls were clean.
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
The shortest thing I ever had to do was at Disney. A show called 'Bonkers.'
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
I've decided to go for a B.A. in art. It's the shortest route to a degree. I'm thinking about teaching.
Since kindergarten, I was the shortest kid in class. They always put me toward the front in school pictures, because you couldn't see me if I was in the back. It was kind of funny.
I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.