Famous quotes containing the words york, mining and/or disaster:
“When the typewriter stops in a New York office everybody’s embarrassed; men start to quarrel or to make love to the stenographer or drop lighted cigarettes in the wastebasket.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“It’s a mining town in lotus land.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“When disaster waves, I try not to wave back.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)