Trade Center Disaster

Famous quotes containing the words trade, center and/or disaster:

“Conversation is a traffick; and if you enter into it, without some stock of knowledge, to ballance the account perpetually betwixt you,—the trade drops at once: and this is the reason ... why travellers have so little [good] conversation with natives,—owing to their [the natives’] suspicion ... that there is nothing to be extracted from the conversation ... worth the trouble of their bad language.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

“I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“When disaster waves, I try not to wave back.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)