Famous quotes containing the words short and/or vowels:
“The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“As no one can tell what was the Roman pronunciation, each nation makes the Latin conform, for the most part, to the rules of its own language; so that with us of the vowels only A has a peculiar sound.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)