Suburban Electric Railways

Famous quotes containing the words suburban, electric and/or railways:

    “The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.”
    —Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)

    “Suddenly I’m not half the girl
    I used to be.
    There’s a shadow hanging over me . . .
    From me to you out of my electric devil....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.”
    —H.G. (Herbert George)