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There must be a mistake," I said.
He adjusted his bag on his shoulder. "That's a creative name. What do you shorten it to? Missy?
Whatever advice you give, be short.
Why is abbreviation such a long word?
Short is the way from need to greed.
What should be shrunken must first be stretched.
This is the short and the long of it.
Aargh! I'm too short for this shit!
They write them long because they can't write them short.
There is no fast, easy shortcut for the word abbreviation.
I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
As the nicknames get shorter, people come closer.
Brevity takes time.
I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.
Short words are best, and old words when short are best of all.
Short is my date, but deathless my renown.
They're called shortcuts for a reason. The shorter they are, the more they usually cut. Nothing is without price.
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
Atomize and refigure the word.
Short questions with long answers, my boy.
Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.
I can always make things longer than I intend for them to be, but cutting things down is just brutal. It's like cutting off your fingers every time you lose a word.
If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out
A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.
For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.
This is the first time in my life I've had hair this short. It's always been down to my waist. I can't hide behind my hair any more.
I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.
Brevity is pivotal to clarity.
So if u shorten words to get what u want in within 140 characters it makes u a twit?
Never is a long word.
Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.
I strive to be brief but I become obscure.
Omit needless words.
Brevity: To say at once whatever is to be said.
I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
We must be brief.-- Victor Hugo
I got precious little time for you to belong to me. I'm gonna make sure it isn't any shorter than it has to be.
The longer and the deeper the thought, the shorter the sentence of wisdom will be.
This life, gentlemen, is too short for our souls.
What is the short meaning of the long speech?
Being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.
To write good poems is the secret of brevity.
Life isn't really short. There are just too many good books to read in one lifetime.
Life is short, the art long.
My legs are long but my body is too short.
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.
I had short hair for a while, but I ended up loving it.
Not that the story need to be long, but it will take a long time to shorten it
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter.
Struggling to be brief I become obscure.
Shrink, shrink variation, to reduce the loss.
He said all I could do was tell them, so that is what I did, I told them all the long the short and the tall
I often find that when a ruthless editor forces me to trim an article to fit into a certain number of column-inches, the quality of my prose improves as if by magic. Brevity is the soul of wit, and of many other virtues in writing.
Lengthen your stride/go the extra mile
As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.
I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.
I shall be so brief that I have already finished
Life is death we're lengthy at
Life is not too short ... we just wait too long to begin it.
Empty your knapsack of all adjectives, adverbs and clauses that slo your stride and weaken your pace. Travel light. Remember the most memorable sentences in the English language are also the shortest: "The King is dead" and "Jesus wept."
I'm not here for a long time. I'm here for a short time
It's not really a shorter skirt, I just have longer legs
This is Mr. Round."
"SHORT Round.
Sesquihoral (adj.) Lasting an hour and a half. Because sometimes you just don't feel like saying "an hour and a half." Short-thinker
Sweetheart, do not love too long:
I loved long and long,
And grew to be out of fashion
Like an old song.
If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
To be honest, my life has exhibited many strange and sometimes troubling characteristics, but shortness is not one of them. It feels like an eternity since I started school and a techno-social epoch since I moved to San Francisco. My phone couldn't even connect to the internet back then.
There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.
Life is short; but you are tall enough to reach for your destiny.
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
A drink is shorter than a tale
Life is too short when you think of the length of death
I try to make my comments like a woman's skirt: long enough to be respectable and short enough to be interesting.
There are no short hitters on the tour anymore - just long and unbelievably long.
A short story is simplification to the highest degree
I say long and lean as opposed to tall, because you could be 5 four and look long and lean.
True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself.
Truth is short; lies are long.
For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn't have to say.
It's better to love a short ...
At a certain age men began to shrink, and yet it was precisely at that age that their trousers became too short for them.
If you can't be smart or funny, be brief.
With short hair you begin to crave pearl necklaces, long earrings, and a variety of sunglasses. Short hair removes obvious femininity and replaces it with style.
Never be so brief as to become obscure.
I grow impatient at the length of your exordium.
Life is short. Eternity is long.
Could a name be any shorter? Three letters without even the flourish of an e. Ann, a trio of curves and lines.
It means "full of grace".
Brevity - the sister of talent.
Did you do something crazy, like cut it all off?" "Well," I said, "not all." "But it's real short, right?" "Yeah, but - " "Why did you do it?
Think long thoughts in short sentences.
But I hasten to finish my story. Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Swift as shadow, short as any dream
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
People who can speak well, speak briefly.
Eliminate the superfluous.