Short

Famous quotes containing the word short:

    “The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it’s an example of freedom from religion.”
    —Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)

    “Once it chanced that I stood in the very abutment of a rainbow’s arch, which filled the lower stratum of the atmosphere, tinging the grass and leaves around, and dazzling me as if I looked through colored crystal. It was a lake of rainbow light, in which, for a short while, I lived like a dolphin. If it had lasted longer it might have tinged my employments and my life.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.”
    —Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923)