Footnote Quote by Charles Stross

“Big construction companies, making millions on underground developments such as this, had initially gone to the bother of bringing in cranes to lift mechanical…

— Paul Cornell

“So why do these guys hate your guts?” “Because they believe strip-mining is a good thing. It provides jobs, and there are few jobs…

— John Grisham

If the roof caves in and the tenants are sitting in the debris, they will laugh like hell. They will endure any hardship as…

— Harry Golden

claiming that the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining, blowing the tops off mountains to get at the coal beneath, performs the "necessary" function…

— Joseph Conrad

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing…

— Alfred Jarry

“If you are a millionaire beset by blackmailers or anyone else to whose comfort the best legal advice is essential, and have decided to…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“To achieve these goals [of making good landscapes}, there is but one necessity: when preparing and approving plans for new places, or spending money…

— Tom Turner

(The city is being) destroyed by thugs who in a very senseless way are trying to tear down what so many have fought for,…

— Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

“I believe the term is ‘eminent domain.’ Ah, yes. That means ‘theft by the government,”

— Terry Pratchett

“Explorers are quick to claim the places they find, but they don’t create the land they raise flags on,”

— Chris Colfer

Flint is not a hopeless city and I mean that.

— Claressa Shields

“They broke the way a man dismantling a mine broke the second his geography exploded.”

— Michael Ondaatje