There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything. – George Washington Carver
Yeah, well that’s the best thing about it, I think, is knowing kids and kids getting mental when they know you’re in it. Any kid you meet and anyone I know tells the kid you’re in it and they get short of breath. – David Thewlis
My dream is to become a director. I want to direct a Hindi film. I have two scripts ready. One of them is a fantasy-adventure, while the other is a thriller. I’ve assisted my brother Selvaraghavan, who’s a well-known director in Tamil cinema. I’ve also made short films. – Dhanush
I’ve never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile. – David Allan Coe
You can play professional lacrosse, but they make less than a teacher’s salary now. I always thought about that. And it’s a very difficult career, a short career, as a pro athlete. – Nash Grier
Countries are not like financial markets. Social change cannot be executed as swiftly as credit-default swaps. You cannot sell short on social commitments and practical responsibilities. – George Papandreou
A subplot is a distinguishing characteristic of the novel; the short story, for example, does not need subplots. – Darin Strauss
It wasn’t until I started to read short stories – by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, John Updike… Eudora Welty – that I became excited about the possibilities of writing. – Carol Windley
I’m not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn’t really bother me. – Dick Cavett
We found evolution will punish you if you’re selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish organisms may come out ahead. But selfishness isn’t evolutionarily sustainable. – Chris Adami
I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they’re so good. He doesn’t waste any words. – Elmore Leonard
I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it. – Dorothy Hamill
I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a relationship that I didn’t want to be going through. It was too much for me to process and all of a sudden I had this idea for my first feature film and I knew right away I had to start writing it. – Evan Glodell
The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role – I was playing dress-up a bit. – Natalie Maines
I think fiction isn’t so good at being for or against things in general – the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application. – George Saunders
Yes, some women are funny. No, some women aren’t funny. It’s similar to how some women are tall and, you know, some women are short. – Ellie Kemper
Barack Obama’s military triumphs will come neither in long wars nor even short ones, but in a series of raids. – Elliott Abrams
What does the doctrine of American exceptionalism empower the United States to do? Nothing more than to act better than traditional empires – committed to looting and conquest – have done. So that’s American exceptionalism: an exceptionalism based on noble ideas, ideas that it holds itself to even when it falls short of them. – Dinesh D’Souza
We’re living in a tremendously new landscape, and the possibility of what can be created is immense. These tools of the moving image have a relatively short history in art, and what we can do with them is still largely unknown. We are still innovating and finding ways to tell stories. – Doug Aitken
I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps. – Peggy Noonan
Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation. – Neil Gaiman
When I was younger I probably didn’t understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm’s distance and that’s not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with. – Debra Winger
In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so? – Frederic Bastiat
One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction. – Michael Lindsay-Hogg
I come from a prose background. I come from short story background, and that led me into novels. – Greg Rucka
Practice, work out, proper nutrition, lots of work on my short game. In golf, that’s really where the strokes come off the scorecard. – Paula Creamer
