To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past. Votes: 2
The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable. Votes: 2
In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you can come to a lot of meanings within a short space. Votes: 2
The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea. Votes: 2
Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level. Votes: 2
I hate it when people slag us off. We had done three tours during 1970 and we finished off feeling we had just about had enough. We had done so much in that short space of time, we were drained. Votes: 2
I blew about pounds 70,000 on stupid things - a very expensive car which got written off, and nightclubs. I'd always pick up the bill. It's very easy to spend a lot of money in a short space of time, going out. Votes: 2
Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life. Votes: 2
I had to tell Dad, 'It will be okay and be positive; keep praying and have faith'. I have always known about cancer, but to be around someone who has it and to see what it does in such a short space of time was hard. It makes you think about your life, about what is important. Votes: 2
I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space. Votes: 0
For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well. Votes: 0
Not since the British raided Cologne had so many bombs landed in such a small space in such a short time. Votes: 0
Putting allows the touchy golfer two to four opportunities to blow a gasket in the short space of two to forty feet. Votes: 0
This life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant. Votes: 0
Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse. Votes: 0
I am interposing overlaid planes a short way off... To make it understood that things are in front of each other instead of being scattered in space. Votes: 0
Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them. Votes: 0
The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically, heading up or down in literary space. Votes: 0
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years. Votes: 0
Maybe right and wrong did not move, but understanding of them did. The wrenching pain of walking the same path, even for a short space, tore away the willingness to judge. Votes: 0
He just rubs people up the wrong way in a short space of time and, after he'd gone, one of the South African coaches there said to me in a thick Bok accent 'You see, Richard, what we have to put up with?'
I love fiction. I like reading short stories. Cupcakes, pop songs, Polaroids, and short stories. They all raise and answer questions in a short space. I like Lorrie Moore. Amy Hempel. Tim O'Brien. Raymond Carver. All the heartbreakers.
Short cuts make long delays. Votes: 4 J. R. R. Tolkien
Space is to place as eternity is to time. Votes: 8 Joseph Joubert