Urban Oasis Effect

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

    “A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and and not by a but.”
    —John Berger (b. 1926)

    “Je célébrai mon jour de fête
    Dans une oasis d’Afrique
    Vêtu d’une peau de girafe.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “Let’s take the instant by the forward top;
    For we are old, and on our quick’st decrees
    Th’ inaudible and noiseless foot of time
    Steals ere we can effect them.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)