Famous quotes containing the words york, central and/or railroad:
“New York is full of people ... with a feeling for the tangential adventure, the risky adventure, the interlude thats not likely to end in any double-ring ceremony.”
—Joan Didion (b. 1934)
“The central problem of novel-writing is causality.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (18991986)
“People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (18091894)
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