Sat/structure

Famous quotes containing the words sat and/or structure:

“The furniture,
Taken out and examined under the starlight, pleads
No contest. And the backs of those who sat there before.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.”
—C. Northcote Parkinson (1909–1993)