I was pretty anti-academic, and I wasn't much of a student. I had a really short attention span and did not get a lot out of high school academically. I think college was a little the same way.
The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
Forget the image, forget the ensemble, forget the rumours, forget the short skirts, the big hair, whatever! I owe this to the fans and I will never forget you so I want to accept this award on behalf of all of you.
Life is too short to blend in.
My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!
The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.
The desire to do different things was the main motivator that made me leave late night because I'd been there seven years. The combination of an entrepreneurial desire to see how far I could push my success and a short attention span. But now I've done other things. And I'm sort of ready to sit somewhere and sit in the same place for a while.
I go short and sweet on the engagement. I did have a longish engagement, but I think short and sweet is best.
My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.
Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.
Life is too short no matter what party you are with.
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!
If you think you've already made it, that's when you can fall short and go backwards. I'm constantly pushing forward and chasing the element of perfection.
I really go against drama in my life. Life is too short.
When you get into a film, it is one story and one set development of a character, and you are able to delve into one character for a short period of time and discover everything about them.
Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths.
I always think it's important to choose your initial theme very carefully because you're going to be married to it for a long time. You might have to generate an hour's worth of music from a very short, little piece of theme.
I was told I would never make it because I'm too short. Well, I'm still too short. It doesn't matter what your height is, it's what's in your heart.
I have a short attention span, so when one book isn't working out, I just work on another.
If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
Life is too short to be on a diet.
Brushing up on your short game at the practice area is fine and good, but taking it with you to the golf course - when your score is really on the line - is another story.
A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.
Like pretty much every short story writer, I submitted to every market under the sun and hoped for the best. The rejection letters I've collected over the years can probably make a book of their own.
It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty.
Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever.
You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.
The short story, it's not a step on the way to becoming a novelist.
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
TV is really about keeping things fresh and making sure you have the most energy possible for these very short spurts of time.
When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class.
