Famous quotes containing the words pretty, soldier and/or sailor:
“Mily: You must remember me!?
Tadeusz: I never remember pretty women. Its so expensive.
My friend, after twenty thousand years murder is still a business thats mainly in the hands of amateurs.”
—Orson Welles (19151985)
“For a shirt verminously busy
Yon soldier tore from his throat, with oaths
Godhead might shrink at, but not the lice.”
—Isaac Rosenberg (18901918)
“He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. Most begin to veer and tack as soon as the wind changes from aft, and as within the tropics it does not blow from all points of the compass, there are some harbors which they can never reach.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)