Quotes:Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too
short a time.
View quotes by Alvin TofflerI will now spend a
short period of time to rest, recharge my batteries before contemplating my future [on quitting Portsmouth]
View quotes by Harry RedknappI started feeling really stupid for having only known him such a
short time [after being dumped by Paul Danan on Celebrity Love Island]
View quotes by Nikki ZieringWhen I was in high school, I ran hurdles, but I was really
short, so I'd barely clear them. I was pretty quick, but I had little legs, so I had to take 50 steps in between each hurdle.
View quotes by Chris KirkpatrickOne night some
short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise.
View quotes by Clifford OdetsContour-hugging cycle
shorts can cruelly expose anyone whose performance falls an inch or two
short of an all-comers' record.
View quotes by Richard LittlejohnYou only have to look around on a hot day to see ancient ladies in
short shorts, and you'll realise that many woemn are extraordinarily - inexplicably - confident about their bodies. If anything we should hold back a little bit.
View quotes by Sian PhillipsBe ready to come forward to pounce on any
short returns and choose between a wrong-footing second shot back behind your opponent, or into the space.
View quotes by Judy MurrayAn actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In
short, his ego.
View quotes by Alec GuinnessA great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very
short period, been found to be both possible and true.
View quotes by Catherine CroweAt the camp the whole squad reaffirmed their commitment to the Spirit of Cricket and I'm disappointed that I fell
short of the standards I expect of myself and my team-mates
View quotes by Ricky PontingThe negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a
short-cut answer.
View quotes by Margaret MeadAmericans continue to suffer from a notoriously
short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency but quickly return to their families and sitcoms.
View quotes by Eric AltermanIf anyone... seriously believes that a further exponential rise in the prison population for
short-term prisoners and first-time offenders is the way to ensure our safety then they are sorely deluded.
View quotes by David BlunkettOnly a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and
short-legged sex the fair sex.
View quotes by Arthur SchopenhauerIn Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have OK teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're
short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already.
View quotes by John CorbettA collection of
short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.
View quotes by John CheeverI asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his
short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.
View quotes by Harold RossNo arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and
short. (Leviathan)
View quotes by Thomas HobbesFor the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with
short arms can never make a fine gesture
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