Famous quotes containing the words short and/or body:
“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 (18741946)
“The body and the soul know how to play
In that dark world where gods have lost their way.”
—Theodore Roethke (19081963)