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)

    “Have you built your ship of death, O have you?
    O build your ship of death, for you will need it.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “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)