Urban Oasis Effect

Famous quotes containing the words urban, oasis and/or effect:

“I have misplaced the Van Allen belt
the sewers and the drainage,
the urban renewal and the suburban centers.
I have forgotten the names of the literary critics.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“Are you not the oasis where I dream, and the gourd from which I drink in long draughts the wine of memory?”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

“At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate had but one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)