A Quote by William Shakespeare

This is the short and the long of it.

William Shakespeare

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Long Short

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William Shakespeare
English - Playwright
April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616

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.

Brian D. McLaren

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.

Paul Saffo

Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.

Michel de Montaigne

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.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

They go the long way but we take the short cut Give me the blonde hair, long weave, short cut

Nicki Minaj

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.

Katey Sagal

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Pope Paul VI

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.

Gary Saul Morson

Short or long to Goblin City? The straight way's short But the long way's pretty.

Terry Jones

I don't mind if my future is long or short, as long as I'm doing the right thing. And as long as I behave for other people.

Henry Allingham

Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

People say that life is short, but it isn't short. It's very long.

Frank Abagnale

Without always meaning to, I write really long short stories, 60-pagers, 90-pagers, pieces of fiction that are too long for all but the bravest magazines to print, and too short for all but the bravest book publishers to publish.

Anthony Doerr

We live in a time of short attention spans and long stories. The short attention spans are seen as inevitable, the consequence of living our lives in thrall to flickering streams of information. The long stories are the surprise, as is the persistence of the audience for them.

Tom Junod

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.