Guided Missile Battleship

Famous quotes containing the words guided missile, guided and/or missile:

    “The guided missiles,
    The black-and-white angels follow each quirk and jink of
    The evasive sheep, play grandmother’s-steps behind them,
    Freeze to the ground, or leap to head off a straggler”
    —Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)

    “Sometimes, when I compare myself with other men, it seems as if I were more favored by the gods than they, beyond any deserts that I am conscious of; as if I had a warrant and surety at their hands which my fellows have not, and were especially guided and guarded. I do not flatter myself, but if it be possible they flatter me.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “... the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)