Famous quotes containing the words west and/or side:
“It is said that a carpenter building a summer hotel here ... declared that one very clear day he picked out a ship coming into Portland Harbor and could distinctly see that its cargo was West Indian rum. A county historian avers that it was probably an optical delusion, the result of looking so often through a glass in common use in those days.”
—For the State of New Hampshire, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)