Boat Tail Bullet

Famous quotes containing the words boat, tail and/or bullet:

    “We can never see Christianity from the catechism:Mfrom the pastures, from a boat in the pond, from amidst the songs of wood- birds we possibly may.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “What a wonderful bird the frog are—
    When he stand he sit almost;
    When he hop, he fly almost.
    He ain’t got no sense hardly;
    He ain’t got no tail hardly either.
    When he sit, he sit on what he ain’t got almost.”
    —Unknown. The Frog (l. 1–6)

    “It’s not the bullet with my name on it that worries me. It’s the one that says “To whom it may concern.””
    —Anonymous Belfast Resident. quoted in Guardian (London, Oct. 16, 1991)