Famous quotes containing the words short and/or words:
“Chess is ruthless: you’ve got to be prepared to kill people.”
—Nigel Short (b. 1965)
“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)