Quotes About Aircraft Carriers

#1. Did we put our kids in 0.5-mile-per-gallon (mpg) tanks and 17 feet per gallon aircraft carriers because we failed to put them in 32-mpg cars?

Hunter Lovins

#2. Real cars were made here in America: Fords, Chevys, Plymouths. These were large chunks of Detroit iron - cars that had the size, weight, and handling characteristics of aircraft carriers but worse fuel efficiency.

Dave Barry

#3. I know something about aircraft carriers for real.

John F. Kerry

#4. Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.

Alan Shepard

#5. America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.

Robin Sloan

#6. According to Ferguson, grey things are invisible. Apparantly its just total luck that planes manage to find aircraft carriers in the middle of the ocean.

Nick Hancock

#7. I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that was the only thing I wanted to do. And it had to be flying from sea carriers. Airfields were not enough.

Eugene Cernan

#8. I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Oscar Wilde

#9. Let us be French, let us be English, but most importantly let us be Canadian!

John A. Macdonald

#10. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.

Barack Obama

#11. Is it likely that an aircraft carrier or a cruise missile is going to find a person?

Donald Rumsfeld

#12. I like historical things; I like researching things.

Graham Moore

#13. They just elected me Mis Phonograph Record of 1966. They discovered my measurements were 33 1/2, 45, 78!

Phyllis Diller

#14. Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.

Erastus Wiman

#15. Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier. It takes a mile before anything happens. And if it was a wrong turn, getting back on course takes even longer.

Al Ries

#16. Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good ... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.

Jonathan Sacks

#17. If you ask me:An openly homosexual teacher can work as a teacher? I say no. ( ... ) I'll not do anything to discriminate you, but I'll also not do anything to put your type of relationship on the same level of the natural family.

Gianfranco Fini

#18. If I get even five per cent of my ideas out and documented before I die, I'll be lucky. I'm not in danger of running out of riffs or ideas anytime soon. They overwhelm me and it's hard to find time to deal with them.

Jello Biafra