Famous quotes containing the words york, mining and/or disaster:
“New York is more now than the sum of its people and buildings. It makes sense only as a mechanical intelligence, a transporter system for the daily absorbing and nightly redeploying of the human multitudes whose services it requires.”
—Peter Conrad (b. 1948)
“Its a mining town in lotus land.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940)
“The disaster ... is not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespectthis belief that the arts are dispensable, that theyre not critical to a cultures existence.”
—Twyla Tharp (b. 1941)