Socks must be at least an 18-percent synthetic blend to insure they don't droop, because droopy socks that show calf are worse than short socks that do the same.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
In college, I discovered the Joyce Carol Oates short story 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' which is definitely one of the most incredibly unnerving, frightening short stories ever written.
A token is not a short term carrot, nor a stick for that matter. Just having a token doesn't mean that you have a working business model attached with it.
I was writing and cartooning and writing short stories from grade school on.
I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower.
Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!
I'm short on celebrations and long on getting to work.
The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.
Pixar's short films convinced Disney that if the company could produce memorable characters within five minutes, then the confidence was there in creating a feature film with those abilities in story and character development.
My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor.
Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.
I'm not a risk taker. I don't do plunging necklines or really short skirts. I try to stay as classy as possible and provide a little mystery.
I don't like showing cleavage because I get cold, and if I had fantastic legs, I might wear short skirts - but I think at 78, one's got to act one's age.
Ironically, socialist countries do tend to have immediate short term decreases in poverty before collapsing.
I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else they are books that have an overall structure but are composed of various texts.
Planet colonization is not a short term concern of mine. The physical limitations of space travel render it low on the list for me.
I think comedies should be short. I don't want to be self-indulgent; I don't want a two-hour comedy.
The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.
No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
