Electric Boats

Famous quotes containing the words electric and/or boats:

    “The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media—movies, Telstar, flight—far surpasses any possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world’s a sage.”
    —Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)

    “Away down the river,
    A hundred miles or more,
    Other little children
    Shall bring my boats ashore.”
    —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)