Japanese Ship Naming

Famous quotes containing the words japanese, ship and/or naming:

    “I will be all things to you. Father, mother, husband, counselor, Japanese bartender.”
    —Mae West, U.S. screenwriter, W.C. Fields, and Edward Cline. Cuthbert Twillie (W.C. Fields)

    “The ship goes on
    as though nothing else were happening.
    Generation after generation,
    I go her way.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “The night is itself sleep
    And what goes on in it, the naming of the wind,
    Our notes to each other, always repeated, always the same.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)