Famous quotes containing the words wave and/or breaking:
“The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Cities are ... distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)