Ordnance Quotes

• Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

  Howard Tayler

  Running, Mercenary, Maxims

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• Las personas que intenten encontrar un motivo en esta narración serán procesadas; las personas que intenten encontrar una moraleja en ella serán desterradas; las personas que intenten encontrar un complot en ella serán fusiladas. POR ORDEN DEL AUTOR per G.G., JEFE DE ORDENANZA

  Mark Twain

  Orden, trama, narración

  Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn "Aviso" (1884)

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• The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.

  Iain Banks

  Usual, Tactics, Sides

  "Excession (The Culture, Book 5)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 3 "Uninvited Guests", Section I, p. 66), 1996.

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

  Charlie Sheen

  Air, Bros

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• 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

  Children, Past, Grandparent

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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

  Lewis Black

  Father, Labs, Nine

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• He picked up the wrench and broke the guy’s wrist with it, one, and then the other wrist, two, and turned back and did the same to the guy who had held the hammer, three, four. The two men were somebody’s weapons, consciously deployed, and no soldier left an enemy’s abandoned ordnance on the field in working order. The doctor’s wife was watching from the cabin door, all kinds of terror in her face. "What?" Reacher asked her.

  Lee Child

  Men, Doctors, Doors

  Lee Child (2015). “The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 2, 6-Book Bundle: 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man, Never Go Back, Personal”, p.337, Delacorte Press

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• Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain - which is to say, all of it. Every last bit of it, good and bad - old churches, country lanes, people saying 'Mustn't grumble,' and 'I'm terribly sorry but,' people apologizing to ME when I conk them with a careless elbow, milk in bottles, beans on toast, haymaking in June, seaside piers, Ordnance Survey maps, tea and crumpets, summer showers and foggy winter evenings - every bit of it.

  Bill Bryson

  Summer, Country, Sorry

  "Notes from a Small Island". Book by Bill Bryson, 1995.

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• La riqueza procedente del comercio fue el principal motor del avance material de Occidente; los agentes visibles del cambio fueron las grandes armas. Éstas alcanzaron su madurez en Europa en el siglo XV. En tierra, su potencia para reducir las murallas de los castillos favoreció al poder central frente al local, ya que en general sólo los monarcas podían permitirse trenes de asedio; así, las naciones-estado se consolidaron y extendieron hasta convertirse en grandes imperios territoriales. En el mar, los cañones transformaron los veleros en castillos móviles prácticamente inexpugnables para los adversarios que carecían de artillería igualmente poderosa. Con los buques de guerra artillados, Europa occidental comenzó a extenderse por todo el mundo.

  Peter Padfield

  Muro, Potente, Océano

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