"Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles."
— Frank Lloyd Wright

January 1, 1970

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According to the New Yale Book of Quotations (2021 rev. ed.), this quote was attributed to Wright in Art Spiegelman and Bob Schneider, Whole Grains: Book of Quotations (1973), but a similar quote was credited to Will Rogers in The Washington Post on May 17, 1964: "Tilt this country on end and everything loose will slide into Los Angeles."