Platform Screen

Famous quotes containing the words platform and/or screen:

    I marched in with the men afoot; a gallant show they made as they marched up High Street to the depot. Lucy and Mother Webb remained several hours until we left. I saw them watching me as I stood on the platform at the rear of the last car as long as they could see me. Their eyes swam. I kept my emotion under control enough not to melt into tears.
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    The screen of supreme good fortune curved his absolute smile into a celestial scream.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)