Soviet Fighter Ace

Famous quotes containing the words soviet, fighter and/or ace:

    “If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let’s all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.”
    —Carlos Fuentes (b. 1928)

    “A pleasant smell of frying sausages
    Attacks the sense, along with an old, mostly invisible
    Photograph of what seems to be girls lounging around
    An old fighter bomber, circa 1942 vintage.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “I do not object to Gladstone’s always having the ace of trumps up his sleeve, but only to his pretence that God had put it there.”
    —Henry Labouchere (1831–1912)