Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.
SOLOMON SHORT Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and cer...
SOLOMON SHORT Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.
SOLOMON SHORT A diploma only proves that you know how to look up answers.
SOLOMON SHORT The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.
SOLOMON SHORT I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriter...
SOLOMON SHORT Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how...
SOLOMON SHORT Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at
SOLOMON SHORT Riches are a stronghold in the imagination of a rich man.
SOLOMON For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of...
SOLOMON I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the...
CLARE SHORT Don't press your luck, you might pop it.
SHORT QUOTES If you're all wrapped up in yourself then you are overdressed.
SHORT QUOTES I always intended to pay for my sins, but I could never afford it.
SHORT QUOTES What are the three words guaranteed to humiliate men everywhere? 'Hold my purse.'
SHORT QUOTES Remember: Don't Insult the Alligator till after you cross the river.
SHORT QUOTES If you know how many cupcakes I'm holding behind my back I'll give you both of them.
SHORT QUOTES To make a mistake is human, but to blame it on someone else, that's even more human.
SHORT QUOTES To make time fly, throw your watch out the window.
SHORT QUOTES Smile today, tomorrow could be worse.
SHORT QUOTES I look at the moon and it looks really beautiful!.. Then I look at you... and.. I think I'll look at...
SHORT QUOTES I wish that all of my enemies had three cars parked in front of their house. An ambulance, fire tru...
SHORT QUOTES Why are you waiting so long to report your stolen car to the police? I'm giving them time to fix it...
SHORT QUOTES Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's only a poster on a wall.
SHORT QUOTES A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.
SHORT QUOTES Everyone wants your best! Don't let them take it away from you.
SHORT QUOTES I'm not afraid of flying, I'm afraid of not flying.
SHORT QUOTES Being angry is not necessarily bad, some the best things were invented by angry people. Lamborghini...
SHORT QUOTES The most fun things in life are either immoral, illegal or they make you fat.
SHORT QUOTES I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.
SHORT QUOTES 'Press any key to continue, where's the any key?' - Homer Simpson
SHORT QUOTES Sometimes you succeed.... and other times you learn.
SHORT QUOTES The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.
SHORT QUOTES The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
SHORT QUOTES The road to success is always under construction.
SHORT QUOTES Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.
SHORT QUOTES Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
SHORT QUOTES If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
SHORT QUOTES If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.
SHORT QUOTES Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.
SHORT QUOTES Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
SHORT QUOTES That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
SHORT QUOTES I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.
SHORT QUOTES I took my dog to the fire hydrant factory. They never saw so much excitement every time a hydrant ca...
SHORT QUOTES What you call dog with no legs?
Don't matter what you call him, he ain't gonna come.
SHORT QUOTES I love making friends. I usually prefer to make them out of plaster and give them funny looking hats...
SHORT QUOTES Intelligence is chasing me, but I'm beating it so far.
SHORT QUOTES You can talk to yourself and you can answer yourself, but if feel the need to pardon yourself, that'...
SHORT QUOTES Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers.
SHORT QUOTES A stupid person laughs three times at a joke; once when everyone else is laughing, a second time whe...
SHORT QUOTES Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
SHORT QUOTES When a man gets close to a woman wearing a leather mini-skirt, his heart starts beating faster, his ...
SHORT QUOTES Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.
SHORT QUOTES They say that love is more important than money, but have you ever tried to pay your bills with a hu...
SHORT QUOTES If people are talking behind your back, be happy that you are the one in front.
SHORT QUOTES Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
SHORT QUOTES My decision making skills are as good as a squirrel that's crossing the street.
SHORT QUOTES Don't make me laugh, I'm trying to be mad at you.
SHORT QUOTES Paper cut: A tree's final moment of revenge.
SHORT QUOTES The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.
SHORT QUOTES A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to c...
SHORT QUOTES What does a homeless person do the first time you let them use a computer? Searches through the rec...
SHORT QUOTES If you think patience is a virtue, try surfing the net without high speed Internet.
SHORT QUOTES I called tech support and told them my computer is frozen. They said to hold the power button, and I...
SHORT QUOTES The only sure way to make a computer go faster is to throw it out the window.
SHORT QUOTES A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
SHORT QUOTES Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
SHORT QUOTES The best things in life are free. The rest are too expensive.
SHORT QUOTES For the best seat in the house, you'll have to move the dog.
SHORT QUOTES In spring birds return from their tropical vacation. Six months later they regret their decision and...
SHORT QUOTES The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
SHORT QUOTES I feel sorry for people who don't have dogs. I hear they have to pick up food they drop on the floor...
SHORT QUOTES Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.
NIGEL SHORT Being the youngest of five, you're adored, you're fueled with confidence.
MARTIN SHORT People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of bein...
CLARE SHORT What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's no...
MARTIN SHORT All these things that enter your head are assignments. You write them up and then throw them out the...
MARTIN SHORT One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.
MARTIN SHORT David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late '80s. We had lots of dinners and lunc...
MARTIN SHORT A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.
NIGEL SHORT What I learned, a little too late, was that the 'traditional' Martin Short target viewer wei...
MARTIN SHORT (Linebacker) was something that was a weakness on the team last year. Now hopefully it'll be a stren...
BRANDON SHORT He's one of the most amazing athletes I've ever seen. Hopefully we will take what was a weakness on ...
BRANDON SHORT The Giants have always been a class organization, and I'm happy to be back and be a part of it. I ha...
BRANDON SHORT The Cowboys kicked our butt. They executed better than we did. I never would have expected it.
BRANDON SHORT What happens on the field is its own world. The stuff those people are dealing with is their lives i...
BRANDON SHORT He's a tremendous athlete, with his speed and his tackling ability. To have someone like him who is ...
BRANDON SHORT It's a totally different dynamic this year. It's a lot more spread around. We've got a lot of guys w...
BRANDON SHORT It's a totally different dynamic this year. It's a lot more spread around.
BRANDON SHORT Once in a while, I try to sneak in something less known anyway.
BOBBY SHORT If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.
BOBBY SHORT I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was alre...
BOBBY SHORT I link them together myself, but Robeson was many, many different things. He possessed a brilliant i...
BOBBY SHORT Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.
BOBBY SHORT I listen constantly to classical music and I find that stretches my imagination. I listen to some co...
BOBBY SHORT But life is tough and if you're creative, it's tougher.
BOBBY SHORT Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in...
CLARE SHORT Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment
CLARE SHORT I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with peopl...
CLARE SHORT So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence wa...
CLARE SHORT I do tumbling and flips; there's a gym I go to for that.
JAKE SHORT We find you have be careful about what you make up, because it'll come back to haunt you. I make up ...
MARTIN SHORT People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.
MARTIN SHORT That's a long wagon train,
MICHAEL SHORT What I learned, a little too late, was that the 'traditional' Martin Short target viewer weighs unde...
MARTIN SHORT What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about ...
MARTIN SHORT Every market is crowded and competitive, ... and everyone survives based on whether we want to visit...
MARTIN SHORT Reckless with our government;
reckless with his own future, position and place in history.
CLARE SHORT We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.
CLARE SHORT They seem now to have started rounding up refugees queuing to leave Kosovo and returning them by for...
CLARE SHORT You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.
MARTIN SHORT I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun...
MARTIN SHORT There are communities that have not been as proactive as say, San Francisco and Oakland in having a ...
MARC SHORT I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me -...
MARTIN SHORT He's an original genius,
MARTIN SHORT He is a complete goof and so stylish, I mean everything about Franz is about chic, it doesn't really...
MARTIN SHORT I started the site as a hobby while I was a nursing student, and 10 years later, over 500,000 people...
BRIAN SHORT For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of po...
CLARE SHORT In the UK we have a tariff that allows unlimited calls. International tariffs are more challenging, ...
MIKE SHORT It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola,
CLARE SHORT I think everyone agrees we would have done better with a different leader,
CLARE SHORT I will not uphold a breach of international law or this undermining of the U.N. and will resign from...
CLARE SHORT I just couldn't believe that he would do it, that anyone could be so deceitful over a matter of war,...
CLARE SHORT You might not think it to read the coverage in the British media, but this woman is some kind of her...
CLARE SHORT Reckless with our government;reckless with his own future, position and place in history.
CLARE SHORT This is a war,
CLARE SHORT There's not enough movement. We've got a system that is completely stuck,
CLARE SHORT We have reports of systematic and organized use of rape,
CLARE SHORT We remain concerned that refugees in Macedonia are being forced onto planes and buses. This is unacc...
CLARE SHORT It's very ugly. We're spending a lot more, we're getting rich people to fund it, and it is corroding...
CLARE SHORT One must strike the right balance between speed and quality.
CLARE SHORT I'm not sending a minister because I don't expect it to be an effective summit.
CLARE SHORT The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
ROBERT SHORT King Sihanouk was an absolute monarch in the 1940s and 1950s. No one could publicly disagree with an...
PHILIP SHORT I could not comment on any personal conversations Sheriff Young had with the operations center.
MARK SHORT This is satire. I am a satirist. Modern-day society has this obsession with needing to know every ou...
MARTIN SHORT A lot of them are gone now. People are paying tribute to what took place out there.
ROBERT SHORT We are looking at fixed roaming prices for certain Western European destinations.
MIKE SHORT Maybe a bungee cord or something from his car.
JOHN SHORT The church is the great lost and found department.
ROBERT SHORT The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really deali...
CLARE SHORT You always want to be one step better. This is the best finish we've ever had in the Sally George, w...
DOUG SHORT Is it possible that you know what he was strangled with and you just didnt want to tell me?
JOHN SHORT There is no doubt there is an Iraq effect and the Liberal Democrats are rising on that.
CLARE SHORT The key in their minds [to] the money coming [through] Rotary is that they felt it would be responsi...
CLARE SHORT [But she added:] I don't think he'll do it. ... When is he going?
CLARE SHORT Well, we know for a fact that his belt was ripped off of his pants and he was strangled with his bel...
JOHN SHORT We wondered if he would be into it after he lost on Friday, but he's come back well after a tough th...
DOUG SHORT That's an accomplishment for these guys. We're a young group, so it makes it exciting for next year....
DOUG SHORT On one hand it is disappointing, but we will have people on the podium.
DOUG SHORT Mike has done a nice job of fighting back.
DOUG SHORT It got pretty hectic, but it's a nice problem to have.
DOUG SHORT You look at four wins and that's a great way to start. Even in the two matches we lost the kids were...
DOUG SHORT I want them to enjoy the week because it is a great accomplishment to make it to state. Each kid has...
DOUG SHORT We've got a good competitive league. Getting that many to district shows the strength of our wrestli...
DOUG SHORT The guys have worked hard to be in this position at the end of the year. We had a tough schedule in ...
DOUG SHORT There were people looting, but she wasn't one of them. Instead of chasing after people who were runn...
ELOIS SHORT Only a small number of sound local and foreign financial institutions are being invited to participa...
ELLIS SHORT Contrary to the many unfounded press reports recently, this sale will in no way be rushed.
ELLIS SHORT I started the site while I was a nursing student. I had no idea that it would soon become my full-ti...
BRIAN SHORT The choices have broadened out dramatically over the last five years.
BRIAN SHORT I can say with full sincerity that I am happy. I'm happy because I'm doing what I love and I...
COLUMBUS SHORT This team has a chance to finish as one of the best teams ever at this university.
DALE SHORT We've seen a big improvement at No. 2 and No. 3 doubles, and we've seen a big improvement at No. 4, ...
DALE SHORT The doubles point was huge. It's kind of worrisome that No. 1 doubles has been great for us, and the...
DALE SHORT We lost so many 4-3 matches in the first half of the season that the guys started to question themse...
DALE SHORT If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't co...
BOBBY SHORT Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.
NIGEL SHORT I'm treating it as a group of kids who have issues with each other.
JAMES SHORT The reason we chose to go in another direction has nothing to do with the wins and losses. We try no...
JAMES SHORT Going nine deep, we can apply full-court pressure. We feel like we can wear down most teams.
MARK SHORT It's always been a team of unselfish players. I'm so proud to see them get this far.
MARK SHORT As a coach you always wonder what it's like to walk out on that floor at state, and now we get to fi...
MARK SHORT I think we are ready.
MARK SHORT Funds . . . were not shared to build capabilities throughout a larger community. Now, it's forcing c...
MARK SHORT We do not have any reason to believe there are inaccuracies but we've agreed to make sure our data m...
MARC SHORT The department [DHS] and the President have always favored a risk-based approach. It's members of Co...
MARC SHORT What we're really practicing is risk mitigation. You will not be able to say everywhere every city i...
MARC SHORT It is hard for us to know right now whether or not the localities have over-invested or under-invest...
MARC SHORT This year, we identified 66 ports that we view as the greatest risk, and only those were eligible to...
MARC SHORT There's nothing that would restrict a city from allocating funds to a church or synagogue that faces...
MARC SHORT It's all about the Pac-10 tournament. We're probably playing our best ball of the season. Give us th...
MATT SHORT Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that.
NIGEL SHORT Like a cornered animal, which turns instinctively to confront pursuing predators, Pol Pot viewed pol...
PHILIP SHORT There are thousands and thousands of people on the other side of the border, not being fed, babies a...
CLARE SHORT As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
KING SOLOMON There are few sights more pleasant to the eye than a wide cotton field when it is in bloom. It prese...
SOLOMON NORTHUP Travel is an exercise partly in broadening yourself and partly in defining your own limits.
ANDREW SOLOMON Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at s...
KING SOLOMON My risk tolerance is higher than some people's, but it's not nearly as high as some people&#...
ANDREW SOLOMON By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin...
SOLOMON SCHECHTER Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believ...
ANDREW SOLOMON You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is...
ANDREW SOLOMON You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.
SOLOMON SCHECHTER Vices are character traits. Sins are specific acts of commission or omission. Once Judaism and Chris...
SOLOMON SCHIMMEL Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumst...
ANDREW SOLOMON No perfectionist has ever met his own benchmarks, and no one so famished for admiration has ever rec...
ANDREW SOLOMON As a former veteran, I understand the needs of veterans, and have been clear - we will work together...
SOLOMON ORTIZ A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.
KING SOLOMON