Famous quotes containing the words commander, fleet and/or air:
“Frenchmen, we do not accept your surrender. You surrender only to the enemy. If youre Vichy, fight us. If youre Frenchmen, join us.”
—Samuel Fuller, U.S. screenwriter. American commander (uncredited)
“On the middle of that quiet floor
sits a fleet of small black ships,
square-rigged, sails furled, motionless,
their spars like burned matchsticks.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (19111979)
“Only the gaunt fierce bird
Flies, merciless with fear
Lest air hold him not,
Beats up the scaffold of space
Sick of the worlds rot
Gods hideous face.”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
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