Famous quotes containing the words reception and/or center:
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)