A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles

I think Michelle Obama ought to wear her hair exactly the way she wants to wear her hair. I am not looking for Michelle Obama to cut her hair off like I have mine, very short. I'm not looking for her to do twists. I'm looking for her to wear what's comfortable for her.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

Shorts are silly. Men in shorts are silly men. And silly is the very worst thing a man can be.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

You can propose marriage naked or in handcuffs, but no one is going to agree to forsake all others for a man in shorts. You can't declare war in shorts or deliver a eulogy in shorts.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

It is impossible to be taken seriously in shorts. No one has ever cared about anything said by a man in shorts.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

Texting isn't writing. It's not like letter writing. Texting is short scriptwriting. It's a collaborative soap opera where nothing happens.

A. A. Milne
A. A. Milne

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'

A. B. Yehoshua
A. B. Yehoshua

I only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories.

A. N. Wilson
A. N. Wilson

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.

A. Philip Randolph
A. Philip Randolph

The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.

Aaron Ciechanover
Aaron Ciechanover

The development of methods to monitor protein dynamics in cells together with the discovery of specific and general lysosomal inhibitors have resulted in the identification of different classes of cellular proteins, long- and short-lived, and the findings of the differential effects of the inhibitors on these groups.