Famous quotes containing the words live, action and/or short:
“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They can only force me who obey a higher law than I.... I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men. What sort of life were that to live?”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he a contemplative purely, he would not write.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (18991973)
“A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think Im about $100,000 short.”
—Mickey Rooney (b. 1920)