Famous quotes containing the words waste and/or matter:
“Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.”
—Oswald Spengler (1880–1936)
“A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it’s better than a new one.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)