Shorten Quotes

"Why should I indulge myself and do a David Lean-ish kind of film? I could do my little Jewish Brief Encounter (1945) and disguise it - shorten the noses. But it wouldn`t be as much fun as delivering my dish of insanity".

We try to shorten the growing season by planting some 104-105-day hybrids that help us save two weeks of irrigation. That`s a savings of $10-20/acre. I`m glad seed companies are looking at developing more drought-tolerant hybrids as well as shorter-season corn.

(C&W said the deal would help reduce its development costs and shorten the time needed to introduce next-generation services.) We are absolutely convinced that it is going to lower our cost, ... We will be able to pick and choose from (Cisco) what will fit in the Hong Kong market.

To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else`s can shorten it.

To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring.

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

With the winning line in sight the last thing they (England) expected was that Australia -- aggressive, positive, confronting Australia -- might be prepared to shorten the game,

Going uphill, you do have to compensate by running slower. Rather than checking your watch (on a hill), go for the same perceived effort as you ran on the flats. I find the best way to do this is to monitor your breathing. If you are breathing more heavily going up the hill, shorten your stride.

talked about a lot of options, including the possibility of having to shorten the race.

Well, they don`t. You still have to pull out the dead weeds by hand. All he did was shorten his own life by using toxic chemicals.

I was anxious all night. I wouldn`t mind coaching in a game like that every Friday except it would shorten my life by a considerable number of years.