"An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers,……" — George R. R. Martin

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• We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
• Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill. — William Cowper
• Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking. — Ambrose Bierce
• [Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which… — William Halsey
• Regarding the air raid over Los Angeles it was learned by Army G2 that Rear Admiral Anderson...recovered an unidentified airplane… — George C. Marshall
• Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as… — Christopher Columbus
• What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession… — Benjamin Disraeli
• The surer of himself an admiral is, the finer the tactical development of his fleet, the better his captains, the… — Alfred Thayer Mahan
• The Admiral says that he never beheld so fair a thing: trees all along the river, beautiful and green, and… — Christopher Columbus
• Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me… — Jack Adams
• Every schoolchild knows that Columbus set out across the sea to prove that the world was round. But the belief… — Ferdinand Columbus
• "Of this voyage, I observe," says the Admiral, "that it has miraculously been shown, as may be understood by this… — Christopher Columbus

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