I have made this letter longer than usual only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

People with clear written goals accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

Short as life is we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.

It is strange that the years teach us patience that the shorter our time the greater our capacity for waiting.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

In general shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence you're halfway home.

Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly except shorter and Jewish.

In individual industries where female labour pays an important role any movement advocating better wages shorter working hours etc. would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.