Gymnasts are short, stocky, muscular powerhouses.
I definitely don't think of myself as an actual male model. I'm far too short and my legs are far too muscular.
The average mutual fund holding period for equity or fixed income is only about three years. It's too short.
Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.
I loved Woody Allen's short pieces. I was equally influenced by Woody Allen and Norman Mailer. I was very into this idea of being high-low, of being serious and intellectual but also making really broad jokes.
I've always been a fan of books that create an interesting blend of fact and fiction - whether it's Norman Mailer, or 'The Short Timers,' or 'In Cold Blood.' I'm a fan of that genre.
The one noticeable similarity with almost all serial killer victims is their short height and low weight.
The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.
A Constitution should be short and obscure.
No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge's 'Dejection: An Ode' has a rhyme scheme and sequence of long and short lines that goes without regular pattern, following the mood and whim of the poet. Such a form is known as an irregular ode.
People can be successful for a short period of time, but only a handful of people are successful for decades.
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.
I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the short stories of Updike, Cheever, Munro, Alice Adams, and Doris Lessing. And the plays of Oscar Wilde. And paintings by Alice Neel and Matisse.
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
All in all, I wouldn't call it a bad outing. It was a short outing.
In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, and implicitly negated.
There is Twitter outrage at everything. Be it a pair of trousers or a short skirt, somebody, somewhere, will not like it.
A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.
Let us swell with gratitude and allow it to overwhelm us. It isn't as cliche as we make it; life truly is short. Let's spend it all lavishly wallowing in gratitude.
To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short.
