World Congress Center

Famous quotes containing the words world, congress and/or center:

“... the world always a step
beyond the world, that can’t
be looked for, only
as the eye wanders,
found.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“What have Massachusetts and the North sent a few sane representatives to Congress for, of late years?... All their speeches put together and boiled down ... do not match for manly directness and force, and for simple truth, the few casual remarks of crazy John Brown on the floor of the Harper’s Ferry engine-house,—that man whom you are about to hang, to send to the other world, though not to represent you there.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“It is written in the Book of Usable Minutes
That all things have their center in their dying....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)