General Thunderbolt Ross

Famous quotes containing the words general, thunderbolt and/or ross:

    Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
    Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    The flame from the angel’s sword in the garden of Eden has been catalysed into the atom bomb; God’s thunderbolt became blunted, so man’s dunderbolt has become the steel star of destruction.
    Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)

    The New Yorker will be the magazine which is not edited for the old lady from Dubuque.
    —Harold W. Ross (1892–1951)