Top 1200 Short Cuts Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

The whole world is like Whitewall's razors I burst out. It cuts us, and we bleed but there's no purpose to it.

Your mind is the knife that cuts the continuum of space and time into neat slices of linear experience.

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

The Right has focused on expanding economic liberty through tax cuts, free trade, and deregulation.

I love masculine cuts with suits and chunky jewellery. My hair is so glam, it balances it out, and it's comfy!

I always had a short bob with bangs, and I hated it. My mum would always say, 'A short hair cut is always the way to go for you.' I had it for fourteen years!

It sounds like a cliche but there are no shorts cuts. You have to be very dedicated and challenge yourself everyday to be better.

I go short and sweet on the engagement. I did have a longish engagement, but I think short and sweet is best.

I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story that orbits the literal prose must happen in the reader's imagination. Who knows, maybe the dwindling attention spans means a lucrative future for short story writers.

I'll always understand the Schadenfreude aspect to short-selling. I get that no one will always like it. I'm also convinced to the deepest part of my bones that short-selling plays the role of real-time financial watchdog. It's one of the few checks and balances in the market.

Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts.

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

But you have to have a vision of what kind of military you are trying to build in order to get the [budget] cuts to make sense.

While we were working, we were writing about a tall girl and a short girl, which we thought was funny, because Alison's [McGhee] tall and I'm short.

Don Siegel last advice to me was 'Don't short yourself.' He said the tendency is when an actor's directing is to kind of you want to work on everybody else but you're going to short yourself. He said, take the time to do a good job with yourself so that you're satisfied with it.

I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand.

India has a long tradition of giving that cuts across all sections of society. It is a living legacy that we can all be proud of.

If your opponent is short (on time), play just as you played earlier in the game. If you are short keep calm, I repeat, don't get flustered. Keep up the same neat writing of the moves, the same methodical examination of variations, but at a quicker rate.

Don't you understand? Listen carefully to what I'm saying. If you do, you'll get it. you can grasp this easily. In short...in short, I shut myself in because I'm lonely. Because I don't want to face any more loneliness, I shut myself away.

Politicians and the government have become too interested in short-term gains. Of course, if you look at the direct financial returns in the short term, human space flight is expensive. But they need to look longer term.

The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there's a heap of choice in the cuts.

'Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead' is one of the most underrated films. There were even different cuts of it. A wonderful film.

Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the Truth and the distress of falling short of that Truth. In this way, philosophy can be characterized as wondrous distress.

You reach for the stars and you work your butt off to achieve your dreams. If you fall short, you fall short, but you say you gave it your best.

Developing a full length feature is much longer process than developing a short. With features you're typically dealing with more characters, plot, emotion, story arc, etc. - a short is the same only much... shorter!

I have really long legs, so I like cropped pants that make it look like I intentionally wanted my pants short instead of pants that happen to be too short for me.

When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.

I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I started writing short stories, sort of as treatments for the film scripts, and I found I enjoyed writing short stories far more than I enjoyed writing film scripts. Then the short stories got longer and longer and suddenly, I had novels.

A novel requires a certain kind of world building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see. I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.

There's no doubt that [tax cuts] act as a stimulus. How could they not, in a sense? You're giving cash back to households.

It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them sting that I discovered I was crying.

Tax cuts were not going to be effective at creating jobs, and the job creation record is lousy.

Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.

I don't know how we existed when there was no SMS. It saves time, as it cuts out all the pleasantries exchanged on the phone.

Tax cuts for the rich defund the critical public programs on which American families depend.

[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in the middle that were like fables, and I loved hearing fables.

We look our best in subdued colors, sophisticated cuts, and a general air of sleek understatement.

I have always said that a bank's lending rates do not only depend on rate cuts - it is just one signal.

It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.'

I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second.

I'm short-selling my house. I have more loans than I can sell the house for. The house will not go into foreclosure. It will be a short sale. I can't afford the house as I once could.

Cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits are unacceptable, and they shouldn’t be put on the table by Democrats for any reason...

Now that I understand how publishing schedules work, I can understand why many authors have the sophomore slump. A year is a long time to wait for a sequel, but it's a short, short time to WRITE a sequel.

I probably could have gone in depth about a lot of things, but then the album would've been longer. You can't have a short album when you're talking about suicide and cocaine. That's not going to be a short album.

'Obvious Child,' the short, had a nice life online and a great festival run, but the short and the feature still stand apart from everything else I've done. I play a woman who you might meet in life. My other work is much more heightened.

Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music [...], some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world?

I'm so consistent that my director's cuts are usually 20-25 minutes longer than the released version of the movies.

Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days.

I've always been ambidextrous, writing short stories and novels, and I pretty much have been writing a novel and a handful of short stories every year since '91.

Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.

I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.

There were 23 or 24 separate tax cuts during the Giuliani administration. I'd love to be able to equal that.

I have spoken to Donald Trump about this. He understands the dramatic budget cuts our military has faced.

My directing style is long takes. The longer take I can do, the more I can think of not doing it in cuts, the better.

When I was in high school, I was writing a lot. I dealt with my high school angst by writing short plays and short films. I was obsessed with reading 'Entertainment Weekly' and 'Premiere' and 'Movieline' and all those magazines.

I foresee great refinements in the field of short-pulse microwave signaling, whereby several simultaneous programs may occupy the same channel, in sequence, with incredibly swift electronic communication... Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously...

The U.S. has a stronger military than Israel, but, but don't short-change Israel, either. Don't short-change them.

I stopped writing short fiction early on - I was never really good at it, and I never liked the results. So I stopped trying to fit the material I was working with into these tidy little short fiction packages.

A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture.

It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.