A Quote by Terry Jones

Short or long to Goblin City? The straight way's short But the long way's pretty. — © Terry Jones
Short or long to Goblin City? The straight way's short But the long way's pretty.
Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations; short on answers, long on questions; short on abstraction and propositions, long on stories and parables; short on telling you what to think, long on challenging you to think for yourself.
The most important thing that a company can do in the midst of this economic turmoil is to not lose sight of the long-term perspective. Don't confuse the short-term crises with the long-term trends. Amidst all of these short-term change are some fundamental structural transformations happening in the economy, and the best way to stay in business is to not allow the short-term distractions to cause you to ignore what is happening in the long term.
They go the long way but we take the short cut Give me the blonde hair, long weave, short cut
We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.
When you start with why, which decision you make becomes very easy. It is so hard to do when you may suffer a short term loss or you may lose out on some short term gain. But in the long run it's way more powerful and way more stable.
Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
The way to belief is short and easy, the way to knowledge is long and hard.
Life is short. Time is short. As we get older, time does quicken. It's long, and it's long pertaining to that thought, that the past is not done with you because you can't rid of it.
You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done.
The resistance to my work, and to my way of writing, has been there from the beginning. The first things I wrote were these short short stories collected in At the Bottom of the River, and at least three of them are one sentence long. They were printed in The New Yorker, over the objections of many of the editors in the fiction department.
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fascinated by these short genres. They seem to lie just where my heart is, somewhere between literature and philosophy.
The best way to make a long story short is to stop listening.
Not being optimistic falls a long way short of predicting that all is finished.
If there are three seamers, we don't need to be bowling long spells. Either way, it doesn't matter to me whether I am going to be bowling short or long spells.
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