Famous quotes containing the words york city, york and/or city:
“The energy, the brutality, the scale, the contrast, the tension, the rapid changeand the permanent congestionare what the New Yorker misses when he leaves the city.”
—In New York City, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe ... it is a beautiful catastrophe.”
—Le Corbusier [Charle Édouard Jeanne] (18871965)
“A wholly materialistic city is nothing but a dream incarnate. Venice is the worlds unconscious, a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon.”
—Mary McCarthy (19121989)