Famous quotes containing the words short and/or words:
“I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)