In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it. – Phillip E. Johnson
Monetary policy is like juggling six balls… it is not ‘interest rate up, interest rate down.’ There is the exchange rate, there are long term yields, there are short term yields, there is credit growth. – Raghuram Rajan
My type is really young, short, athletic, and smart. I know, you want to be with someone who’s going to be your friend – yeah, yeah, yeah. I want the Adonis line, the two down the hips to the waist. And a guy has to be able to accept criticism about his clothing. I can be very particular about what I like and don’t like. – Rachel Nichols
The only things that haven’t worked for me are when I’ve held back. There’s no reason to sell an idea short. The only risk would be to not fulfill the dream. – Ron Johnson
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. – Roger Stone
For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture. – Roland Barthes
I never turn on the news over the weekend, short of a nuclear detonation somewhere. I just don’t. I don’t learn anything from it anymore. – Rush Limbaugh
Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes. – Robert Mankoff
And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world. – Robert Frost
In 2009, I went to Cannes with a short film in the Kodak emerging program at the American Pavilion. – Ryan Coogler
I’m a product of the 1970s, so I have a short attention span. You know, I grew up on cartoons and half-hour shows. So the stories that I’m interested in grab my attention very quickly, and they have to keep my attention. – Robert Kurson
In judging other people’s work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers tell the readers everything about their characters in the first paragraphs, disclose their motives, reveal their recent activities and their future intentions. – Ruth Rendell
I love America. I eagerly became a citizen. I have no bitterness toward those casting directors who dismissed me because of my accent, nor toward the producers and directors who wanted to cast me but thought the audience wouldn’t accept my accent. I think they’re selling their audience short. – Persis Khambatta
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. – Robert Wilson Lynd
Being in The Beatles was a short, incredible period of my life. I had 22 years leading up to it, and it was all over eight years later. – Ringo Starr
The short film project I just finished for W Hotels and Intel, I didn’t have my script finished until a few days before we began filming. We edited it very quickly and now it’s up online. It was great to conceive an idea and have it premiere just a few weeks later, compared to a feature, which takes a year or more. – Roman Coppola
I like Toronto a lot, it’s a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you’re turning Maple Leaf Gardens into a grocery store, which is absolutely nothing short of disgusting. – Rick Wakeman
Nineteen-eighty-two is a vintage of legendary proportions for all levels of the Bordeaux hierarchy. In short, it is a vintage which has produced the most perfect wines in the post-World War II era. – Robert M. Parker, Jr.
I would never have been a good scientist – my attention span was too short for that. – Octavia Butler
I think so many people are reactive… they see things in a short term way they’re right up against it. – Ray Dalio
I didn’t plan to be a politician. The founder of our country, David Ben-Gurion, called me from the kibbutz to serve in the underground. We were short of manpower, short of arms. I was 24 years old. I was supposed to serve my country for one or two years. I am 89 years old this year, and I keep going. – Shimon Peres
A short squeeze could happen with the U.S. dollar if lenders suddenly forced debtors to pay in cash. – Robert Kiyosaki
I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into ‘things that I like’ and ‘things that I must do.’ You’re only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it. – Russell Crowe
In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, and implicitly negated. – Phillip E. Johnson
The Muslim Brotherhood, or ‘the Brotherhood’ for short, is an Islamic group founded in Egypt in 1928. It has been pursuing a secret campaign to take over the government since its creation. – Richard Engel
We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be. – Richard Adams
