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  • Short form media is reductionist by nature. -- Jon Krakauer
  • Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. -- Henry Taylor
  • Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. -- Jonathan Swift
  • With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species. -- Kate Bernheimer
  • A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it. -- Keegan-Michael Key
  • You know, I love stop-motion. I've done almost all the styles of animation: I was a 2D animator. I've done cutout animation. I did a CG short a few years ago, 'Moongirl,' for young kids. Stop-motion is what I keep coming back to, because it has a primal nature. It can never be perfect. -- Henry Selick
  • I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos. -- Brooke Shields
  • Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed? -- Solomon Short
  • Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. -- Thomas Hobbes
  • Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms. -- Marcus Aurelius
  • Boughs are daily rifled By the gusty thieves, And the book of Nature Getteth short of leaves. -- Thomas Hood
  • The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • The nature of the writing and the nature of the animation meant that it had to be short. -- Steve Dildarian
  • Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. -- Jonathan Swift
  • Our Nature is so Beautiful that we come eyes to short if we be on the right place.Jan Jansen -- jan jansen easy branches
  • Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Looking at scenes of nature, for even a short while, can help us become more insightful, more creative, and more productive. -- Maria Konnikova
  • Most people... find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets. -- James A. Baldwin
  • If you're short, don't wear extremely high heels. After a certain age, you shouldn't wear little girls' clothes. That's going against your nature. -- Diane von Furstenberg
  • It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human history put together. -- Sylvia Earle
  • Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks. -- Honore de Balzac
  • ...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used. -- Ansel Adams
  • For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • "The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts - in short," said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, "they are weaned..." -- Charles Dickens
  • A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature. -- William Wordsworth
  • The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree. -- Thomas Reid
  • There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it. -- Joseph Addison
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