Quotes with short-distance

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  • Vladimir Nabokov It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Samuel Johnson It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Camilla Belle It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.
    Camilla Belle
    Brazilian-American actress, director and producer (1986 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Carol Windley It wasn't until I started to read short stories - by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, John Updike... Eudora Welty - that I became excited about the possibilities of writing.
    Carol Windley
     
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  • Ben Schwartz It's funny: I put money into short films, and I put really good actors in it, and I write some stuff that's really funny, and I'll get, like, a million views. But to the right of me, there will be a video of a kitten that falls into a toilet bowl, and it's three seconds long, and it will get 25 million views.
    Ben Schwartz
    American actor, comedian, writer and producer (1981 - )
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  • Bob Newhart It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Mother Teresa Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Bob Newhart Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Victor Borge Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
    Victor Borge
    Danish-American comedian, conductor, and pianist (1909 - 2000)
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  • Victor Borge Laughter is the shortest distance between people.
    Victor Borge
    Danish-American comedian, conductor, and pianist (1909 - 2000)
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  • John Ruskin Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Barbara Jordan Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • George Orwell Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Aaron Hill Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Brad Stone Life inside successful Web startups - especially the really successful ones - can be nasty, brutish, and short. As companies grow exponentially, egos clash, investors jockey for control, and business complexities rapidly exceed the managerial abilities of the founders.
    Brad Stone
    American journalist (1971 - )
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  • Carolina Herrera Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Philip Roth Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Ben Harper Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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