Richard Pryor - he had stories, he had characters, he had short jokes, and he had bits. He had all those things. Eddie Murphy has all those things, and he can sing. A comedian is a bunch of stuff; it's not just one area.
All of my videos, everything I upload is short and edited.
In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it.
There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short.
I once dreamed a whole short story. Wrapped in its peculiar atmosphere, as if draped in clouds, I walked entranced to my desk at about 4 A.M. and typed it on to the screen.
My first experience on public radio still ranks among the most embarrassing episodes of my relatively short life.
Nationalism is like alcoholism: a short period of exaltation followed by a long period of headaches.
A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.
There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.
Tax incentives might spur hiring in the short run, but how lasting are those gains if the jobs expire with the tax credits and they come at the expense of investing in the new technologies of the future?
In the U.S., we really have fallen short of road-racing facilities that have kept up with the times, unfortunately, but it's a fact.
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
Most of my short stories are fantasy.
Technologies simmer along before they are feasible. That simmer can be short or long, but then they get traction. And from there to being huge is a couple of decades.
I did a lot of short films before doing feature films.
Richmond Fontaine bandleader Willy Vlautin writes songs akin to finely composed short stories set in the diners, bars, casinos, and old hotels of Reno and its environs.
If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion.
The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.
In terms of sustainability and what we eat and what its footprint is on the environment and the consequences of eating one thing versus another, obviously it makes a lot of sense to be eating insects. They're incredibly plentiful. They've got a very short turnover rate. You could be eating termites.
