Famous quotes containing the words short, stories and/or volume:
“It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.”
—Thomas Hardy (18401928)
“I am surprised at the way people seem to perceive me, and sometimes I read stories and hear things about me and I go ugh. I wouldnt like her either. Its so unlike what I think I am or what my friends think I am.”
—Hillary Rodham Clinton (b. 1947)
“The other 1000 are principally the old Yankee stock, who have lost the town, politically, to the Portuguese; who deplore the influx of the off-Cape furriners; and to whom a volume of genealogy is a piece of escape literature.”
—For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)