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A good speech should be a like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest. - WINSTON CHURCHILL
— Bill McGowan
A pleasant aperitif, as well as a good chaser for a short quick whiskey, as well again for a fine supper drink, is beer.
— M.F.K. Fisher
Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them.
— Anne Lamott
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
— Tom Stoppard
The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.
— Hannah Arendt
Reform is not for the short-winded. I'm committed to making sure the Senate is more than just a graveyard for good ideas.
— Mark Udall
We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.
— Will Rogers
Some angels are too good to live their entire lives in this inferno. They come to Earth for only a short time because they have a mission.
— Cristiane Serruya
Above all, John Galliano menswear is all about good design. And men have been short-changed by good design for too long.
— John Galliano
A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.
— Nigel Short
If you sit back & spend too much time feeling good about what you did in the past, you're going to come up short next time
— Bill Belichick
You can't do good work on a short-term contract. You need to be engaged over a period of time.
— Yves Behar
Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.
— John Steinbeck
In short, professional competence is not enough to be a good leader; good leaders must truly care about those entrusted to their care.
— Simon Sinek
Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.
— Gerry Schwartz
Being prepared for a job is a good idea for the short term, but it is not enough for the long term.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.
— Elmore Leonard
Courier 12 is the Type-O blood of fonts - works just as good for a 'N.Y. Times' op-ed as a screenplay or a short story.
— Andrew Vachss
I have a good memory for certain things. And a very short memory for painful things - that's my favorite Martha Stewart quote, by the way.
— Reese Witherspoon
How fast does time travel, how short are the trails, when friends and good companions put wind in one's sails!
— Heimdall Thunderhammer
Life is simply too short to think about everything you put in your mouth, and it's not good for children to see you picking over bits of salad.
— Keeley Hawes
By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them.
— Barton Gellman
It was good to be where you belong... And best to do the things you can live with. Even if it killed you in the short run.
— J.R. Ward
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
— Seneca The Younger
Herbert Jemson was Methodist of the whole cloth: he was notoriously short on theology and a mile long on good works.
— Harper Lee
I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.
— Clare Short
Send me the article beforehand, don't forget, and try and let it be free from nonsense. Facts, facts, facts. And above all, let it be short. Good-bye.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A good plan is founded on a clear understanding of your goals for the long-term and the short-term.
— Lisa Banks
Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short.
— Shannon Miller
Satan's survival-of-the-fittest system appears to work- in the short run. But the great controversy is about the long run.
— Jack Provonsha
I'm terrified to lose him for good, so I sell myself short and take what I can from him, even though I know I deserve better.
— Colleen Hoover
Fairies don't live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them
— J.M. Barrie
Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure,
— Michael Bloomberg
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.
— Clive James
And we went through AIDS... which was as good a course in mortality as anyone is likely to get, short of war.
— Stephen Greco
Short-term thinking is the greatest enemy of good government.
— Anthony Albanese
Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.
— Roger Staubach
Winnie, don't you ever think you're selling yourself short?"
"Nope. Never. I'm really good at picking quality dick. — Elizabeth Brown
"Nope. Never. I'm really good at picking quality dick. — Elizabeth Brown
A good speech is like a miniskirt
long enough to over all the vital parts, short enough to entice and captivate listeners. — Naa Shalman
long enough to over all the vital parts, short enough to entice and captivate listeners. — Naa Shalman
He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.
— Francesco Guicciardini
He'd rather have anyone but you. He's not going to give you more than an inch in any direction. So good luck with your short leash.
— Veronica Roth
Life is short. Read good books!
— Tina Shaw
Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise.
— Erik Naggum
Justice without love will always fall short of what needs to be done. It will never be as good as it should be.
— Elane O'Rourke
In short, all good things are wild and free.
— Henry David Thoreau
The old expression goes, a good speech is like a woman's skirt: short enough to hold your attention, long enough to cover the subject.
— Jonathan Tropper
Good horses make short miles.
— George Herbert
I write novellas, short books, whatever. I set out to write a good story not write a dictionary.
— Jason E. Hodges
I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I try to grow like a tree, and hope that I can reach my full potential by the end of this short life. Change is good but growth is better.
— Christofer Drew
Short term memory is not good.
— Jim McMahon
I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
Although your marrows look very good, it's not them I'm interested in.. (The Honesty Box) Love Potion
— Samantha Bacchus
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
— Lynn Abbey
Life is too short to eat food that doesn't taste good.
— Alana Chernila
Life isn't really short. There are just too many good books to read in one lifetime.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.
— Morton Hunt
The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.
— V.S. Pritchett
Good Poem
Sit,
lay down,
roll over,
here's
your treat. — Kristen Henderson
Sit,
lay down,
roll over,
here's
your treat. — Kristen Henderson
Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word.
— Bill Johnson
Roads are long; make them short with a good company!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
It's ever so important to believe in what you do, trust your ability to create and show yourself worthy. Never sell yourself short.
— Simon Zingerman
(Of Marilyn Monroe) She was good at being inarticulately abstracted for the same reason that midgets are good at being short
— Clive James
Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.
— Amy Sedaris
Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question Why should I buy this book?
— Guy Kawasaki
No, I wasn't. I was just thinking how sad it is that for such a good-looking guy, you're a few crayons short of a rainbow." His
— Laurann Dohner
Life is a book. The fact that it was a short book doesn't mean it wasn't a good book. It was a very good book.
— Michael Lewis
If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I have a really good band, and just returned from a short tour in California. It hasn't always gone that well.
— Mick Taylor
Kate ranked the sunset against a few others and it came up short, but sunsets were like pizza, she though; they were all pretty good.
— Lisa Lutz
Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.
— John Selden
When a man's instincts are evil, repentance has a short lease and brief is his gratitude towards those who have done him good.
— Khuswant Singh
It's good to see you, little one." He (Uncle Eddie) scanned her short skirt. "I only wish I were not seeing quite so much of you.
— Ally Carter
Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law.
— A. V. Dicey
In short, the war got off to a pretty good start, with the help of chaos.
— Gabriel Chevallier
If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.
— Bobby Bowden
Those who know say that the most painful punishment that can be inflicted upon an adult male, short of injuring him, is a good, old fashioned shaking.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A good novel cannot be too long nor a bad novel too short.
— Ellen Glasgow
So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long.
— George Saunders
Life should be like a good Tweet - short, pithy, convey a message and inspire others to follow.
— Ashok Kallarakkal
A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.
— David Sedaris
(On her son) I've met writer's block. He is short, diapered and keeps unplugging my laptop. Good news: he can be conquered with a bottle and a nap.
— Cyrese Covelli