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A good speech should be a like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest. - WINSTON CHURCHILL — Bill McGowan

The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective. — Seneca The Elder

Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them. — Anne Lamott

Good things, when short, are twice as good. — Tom Stoppard

The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time. — Hannah Arendt

The beauty of having short hair is that I actually can wash and style it at home! — Meagan Good

We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in. — Will Rogers

Above all, John Galliano menswear is all about good design. And men have been short-changed by good design for too long. — John Galliano

A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused. — Nigel Short

If you sit back & spend too much time feeling good about what you did in the past, you're going to come up short next time — Bill Belichick

You can't do good work on a short-term contract. You need to be engaged over a period of time. — Yves Behar

Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future. — John Steinbeck

In short, professional competence is not enough to be a good leader; good leaders must truly care about those entrusted to their care. — Simon Sinek

Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term. — Gerry Schwartz

Being prepared for a job is a good idea for the short term, but it is not enough for the long term. — Robert Kiyosaki

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials. — Ronald Knox

I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words. — Elmore Leonard

Courier 12 is the Type-O blood of fonts - works just as good for a 'N.Y. Times' op-ed as a screenplay or a short story. — Andrew Vachss

I have a good memory for certain things. And a very short memory for painful things - that's my favorite Martha Stewart quote, by the way. — Reese Witherspoon

Living appears good, long, and tiresome, but it is way too short than a single stroke of lightning. — Aniruddha Sastikar

Life is simply too short to think about everything you put in your mouth, and it's not good for children to see you picking over bits of salad. — Keeley Hawes

I'm a competent novelist. I'm getting better. But I'm a really good short story writer. — Tim Pratt

By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them. — Barton Gellman

The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca The Younger

Herbert Jemson was Methodist of the whole cloth: he was notoriously short on theology and a mile long on good works. — Harper Lee

A good plan is founded on a clear understanding of your goals for the long-term and the short-term. — Lisa Banks

For the general good, he could not stop short for the sake of one man's life. — Leo Tolstoy

Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise. — Erik Naggum

Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived. — Desiderius Erasmus

If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year. — Bobby Bowden

And we went through AIDS... which was as good a course in mortality as anyone is likely to get, short of war. — Stephen Greco

I do Twitter, but I'm still not great on it - I'm not good at writing short little jokes, so my Twitter's not really a jokey thing. — Cecily Strong

I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time. — Wyclef Jean

In short, the war got off to a pretty good start, with the help of chaos. — Gabriel Chevallier

Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law. — A. V. Dicey

It's good to see you, little one." He (Uncle Eddie) scanned her short skirt. "I only wish I were not seeing quite so much of you. — Ally Carter

And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never. — Charles Dickens

Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good. — Hannah More

When a man's instincts are evil, repentance has a short lease and brief is his gratitude towards those who have done him good. — Khuswant Singh

It rained for a short time while I was running, but it was a cooling rain that felt good. — Haruki Murakami

Kate ranked the sunset against a few others and it came up short, but sunsets were like pizza, she though; they were all pretty good. — Lisa Lutz

Fairies don't live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them — J.M. Barrie

Satan's survival-of-the-fittest system appears to work- in the short run. But the great controversy is about the long run. — Jack Provonsha

I try to be a good guy and I fall short sometimes, but I use Christ as an example. — Donny Osmond

He'd rather have anyone but you. He's not going to give you more than an inch in any direction. So good luck with your short leash. — Veronica Roth

I try to grow like a tree, and hope that I can reach my full potential by the end of this short life. Change is good but growth is better. — Christofer Drew

Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up. — Morton Hunt

If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is a book. The fact that it was a short book doesn't mean it wasn't a good book. It was a very good book. — Michael Lewis

God, he was an evil bastard, but boy was he good! — MFR

No, I wasn't. I was just thinking how sad it is that for such a good-looking guy, you're a few crayons short of a rainbow." His — Laurann Dohner

Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best. — Ernest Dimnet

Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question Why should I buy this book? — Guy Kawasaki

Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas. — Amy Sedaris

(Of Marilyn Monroe) She was good at being inarticulately abstracted for the same reason that midgets are good at being short — Clive James

It's ever so important to believe in what you do, trust your ability to create and show yourself worthy. Never sell yourself short. — Simon Zingerman

I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job. — Sandra Day O'Connor

Roads are long; make them short with a good company! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word. — Bill Johnson

Good Poem

Sit,
lay down,
roll over,
here's
your treat. — Kristen Henderson

The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists. — V.S. Pritchett

I have a really good band, and just returned from a short tour in California. It hasn't always gone that well. — Mick Taylor

Life isn't really short. There are just too many good books to read in one lifetime. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Life is too short to eat food that doesn't taste good. — Alana Chernila

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. — Lynn Abbey

Although your marrows look very good, it's not them I'm interested in.. (The Honesty Box) Love Potion — Samantha Bacchus

Just how good are you?"
He kissed her. "I'll let you be the judge of that. — Kate Douglas

In short, they're a bit like a referee at a sporting event: Do a good job and nobody notices; make a mistake and the finger pointing begins. — Andrew Longman

She was short, and even in a good mood she talked like she was half a step away from picking a fight. — Haruki Murakami

(On her son) I've met writer's block. He is short, diapered and keeps unplugging my laptop. Good news: he can be conquered with a bottle and a nap. — Cyrese Covelli

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit. — David Sedaris

Life should be like a good Tweet - short, pithy, convey a message and inspire others to follow. — Ashok Kallarakkal

So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long. — George Saunders

A good novel cannot be too long nor a bad novel too short. — Ellen Glasgow

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough. — Roger Ebert

If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe