Ordnance Quotes

#1. Shut up, Ed - the world below us has turned into a map. A real map! The woods look like the "Woodland: Deciduous" markings of Ordnance Survey. It is just as they drew it! Who knew! Who knew you could put the whole world on paper, after all! The artists were right! This is so reassuring!

Caitlin Moran

#2. My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter.

Lewis Black

#3. Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR
per
G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE

Mark Twain

#4. I didn't know what I wanted to do when I was a child. I did want to be a cartographer but that was partly because I liked Ordnance Survey maps and when I used to go to my grandparents' house from Southampton Station one went past the headquarters of the Ordnance Survey.

Jonathan Meades

#5. The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.

Iain Banks

#6. It was worth repeating, because it constituted the First Law of Sentient Ordnance: Thou shalt not blow up the wrong planet. On that point the programmers had been insistent to the point of fussiness. Accordingly,

Tom Holt

#7. I'm an F-18, bro, and I will destroy you in the air and deploy my ordnance to the ground.

Charlie Sheen

#8. I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

#9. Baseball wasn't easy for me.

Ryne Sandberg

#10. Learning sound layout principles is best accomplished in the light of simplicity... unencumbered by embellishment that hides the real meat of the matter.

Mike Stevens

#11. The world that our children will inherit is going to look substantially different, very quickly, than the world we have today. It's alarming.

Stefanie Powers

#12. The kids are so much fun. I'm always taking a look over at what they're doing because it reminds me of when I was so small before.

Oxana Chusovitina

#13. Don't you see? You can't be brave without being afraid. The brave ones are always afraid. But they do what they must, even so.

Teri Hall

#14. Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.

Philip Sidney

#15. The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is.

Joshua Bell

#16. visionaries lives between 2 extremes

Ikechukwu Joseph

#17. Predictability brings about security.

Magda Gerber

#18. The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.

Ike Skelton

#19. I look into your eyes & see the universe not yet born.

Rumi

#20. When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall be but short.

Thomas Brooks