Gunnery Training Ship

Famous quotes containing the words gunnery, training and/or ship:

“It’s gunnery practice out at sea
Just as before you went below;
The world is as it used to be”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

“They’ll bust you in the lobby. You look like a training poster for the narc squad.”
—John Guare (b. 1938)

“I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch ... and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order ... by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.”
—Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen] (1885–1962)