Famous quotes containing the words gains, city and/or status:
“Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser’s gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)
“The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)
“As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.”
—Clive James (b. 1939)