Metropolitan Gas Company

Famous quotes containing the words metropolitan, gas and/or company:

    “In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “Shielded, what sorts of life are stirring yet:
    Legs lagged like drains, slippers soft as fungus,
    The gas and grate, the old cold sour grey bed.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “In not having an appointment at Harvard, I’m in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.”
    —Catharine MacKinnon (b. 1946)