Famous quotes containing the words eastern, conference and/or quarter:
“My second husband was an American. We traveled all over the world and everywhere we went he would say to people, I am an American. I am an American. They finally shot him in one of those Eastern countries.”
—John Paxton (19111985)
“Politics is still the mans game. The women are allowed to do the chores, the dirty work, and now and thenbut only occasionallyone is present at some secret conference or other. But its not the rule. They can go out and get the vote, if they can and will; they can collect money, they can be grateful for being permitted to work. But that is all.”
—Mary Roberts Rinehart (18761958)
“In the haunted house no quarter is given: in that respect
Its very much business as usual. The reductive principle
Is no longer there, or isnt enforced as much as before.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)