Launched Cruise Missile

Famous quotes containing the words launched, cruise and/or missile:

“A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.”
—Conor Cruise O’Brien (b. 1917)

“... the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)