Navy Defeats Japanese

Famous quotes containing the words navy, defeats and/or japanese:

    “We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.”
    —Wendell Mayes, U.S. screenwriter. Otto Preminger. CINCPAC II (Henry Fonda)

    “Such simple things,
    And we make of them something so complex it defeats us,
    Almost. Why can’t everything be simple again?...”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “I am a lantern—
    My head a moon
    Of Japanese paper, my gold beaten skin
    Infinitely delicate and infinitely expensive.”
    —Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)