Quotes About Manoeuvres

#1. It was possibly the most circumspect advance in the history of military manoeuvres, right down at the bottom end of the scale that things like the Charge of the Light Brigade are at the top of.

Terry Pratchett

#2. Occasionally, chewing over some random letter writer's dilemma, I'll find myself imagining scenarios where the problem could be sidestepped by an innocent fib or series of evasive manoeuvres. Then, I slap myself on the wrist.

Lynn Coady

#3. Home ownership,and the vast consumption of materials and energy it requires, forces some pretty exploitative foreign policy manoeuvres. This makes people in those resource-rich places as mad as natives were at the practices of the colonial empires exploiting them two hundred years ago.

Douglas Rushkoff

#4. Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible, then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres.

Franz Kafka

#5. In 1994 while on weekend manoeuvres in France, I commandeered a Chieftain tank without permission of my immediate superiors. I then attempted to invade Paris. However, en route I stopped off at Disneyland, or Eurodisney as it was then called, and was subsequently apprehended on Space Mountain.

Nick Frost

#6. The coke bugs were out in force, doing military manoeuvres, all jazzed up on their Bolivian marching powder.

Mark D. Diehl

#7. Never mind manoeuvres, always go at them.

Patrick O'Brian

#8. In war the simplest manoeuvres are the best.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#9. The soldiers lie in the grey morning. Thickets separate them. They are on manoeuvres. They are at war with their hands, their eyes, their foreheads.

Herta Muller

#10. Originally, I wanted a pop career and formed a girl-band 'Genie Queen' managed by Andy McClusky from 'Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark', but it didn't work out. My brother John is the talented singer and song-writer with 'The Razz,' while my other brother Sean is a footballer for Telford United.

Abbey Clancy

#11. Lord Nelson's maxim 'Never mind manoeuvres: always go straight at 'em.

Patrick O'Brian

#12. I am not clear that God manoeuvres physical things? After all, a conjuring trick with bones only proves that it is as clever as a conjuring trick with bones

David Jenkins

#13. Let soldiers on manoeuvres plant trees. Give police and criminals a shovel and a thousand seedlings.

John Wright

#14. I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.

Arthur Rimbaud

#15. Poetry isn't heard with your ears it is translated from your heart listened to by your soul.

Richard M. Knittle Jr.

#16. Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.

Irving Layton

#17. My cat Isabella, she doesn't get along with anyone else. She's kind of like me: like, very anti-social and fierce. So we speak to each other on a spiritual level, and we cuddle every night. So it's pretty serious.

Jacob Whitesides

#18. It's cool to actually have my own trading card.

Blake Griffin