Permanent Status Negotiations

Famous quotes containing the words permanent, status and/or negotiations:

    “A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree.... Whereas when buildings are of durable materials, every new edifice is an actual and permanent acquisition to the state, adding to its value as well as to its ornament.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.”
    —Clive James (b. 1939)

    “But always and sometimes questioning the old modes
    And the new wondering, the poem, growing up through the floor,
    Standing tall in tubers, invading and smashing the ritual
    Parlor, demands to be met on its own terms now,
    Now that the preliminary negotiations are at last over.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)