Tanks famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons.
-- Al Michaels -
I see the human being is an incredible machine, totally undiscovered in many ways. Every one of us has a hidden tank of energy that comes out when it is needed.
-- Alex Zanardi -
I tend to like the most basic pieces with the perfect fit and fabric, like a simple tank.
-- Alexander Wang -
It's so hard to go to war at home. Go to war, go home, repeat. And that is the future of warfare. Forget about remote control drones, there's going to be remote control tanks.
-- Andrew Niccol -
Most Americans probably aren't aware that there was a time in this country when tanks and cavalry were massed on Pennsylvania Avenue to chase away the unemployed.
-- Andy Grove -
Both guys ran out of gas, only my guy had an extra tank.
-- Angelo Dundee -
I like a quiet evening with family or friends over, great food and great discussion and a lot of laughter. That's really what I think fills my tank.
-- Anna Eshoo -
They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
-- Anne Carson -
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
-- Benedict Cumberbatch -
I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci -
Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.
-- Bill Pascrell -
I looked at Tank Girl, which is the coolest comic, ever. The movie didn't make the comic book any less cool. The comic is still the comic.
-- Brian Michael Bendis -
You know, the market was down yesterday... my first thought when I heard-just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, Time to buy.
-- Brit Hume -
Ah, well.†He smiled-another one of those devastatingly intoxicating smiles that did unreasonable things to her body temperature and respiration. With a nod and a respectful, “Ma’am,†he left her in the middle of the room. Feeling like she’d been hit by a tank.
-- Cindy Gerard -
The problem with anger is that once it burns out, you're left with empty tanks.
-- Craig Johnson -
Our enemies and our would-be enemies are working very hard at cyberterrorism... They're trying to level the playing field because they know they can't beat us tank for tank, plane for plane.
-- Curt Weldon -
Who would have predicted... that Dubcek, who brought the tanks in in Czechoslovakia in 1968 is now being proclaimed a hero in Czechoslovakia. Unbelievable.
-- Dan Quayle -
At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.
-- Danica Patrick -
To operate а tank as a crew, it's not about five individuals. It has to be one organism, composed of five people.
-- David Ayer -
But there'll be plenty of room on Earth then because right now, what is it?-Only one-fifth of the Earth's surface is land, right? Whereas then there will be no more sea, it'll all be land, seas will be gone. The seas are the World's great septic tanks, its great cesspools, where all the waste of the World drains off into the sea.
-- David Berg -
Think tanks do have points of view, and they are absolutely entitled to defend them.
-- David Frum -
There is no right to work in a think tank, and these are very privileged positions.
-- David Frum -
The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.
-- Emo Philips -
The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
-- Erma Bombeck -
A tent, a roll mat, a little bit of food, a bit of petrol in your tank and a vague idea of where you're going and that's all you need.
-- Ewan McGregor -
All sorts of artillery installations, rockets and tank units that are firing on civilians in Kosovo should be neutralized. If that means air strikes, then NATO should carry out air strikes.
-- Fatos Nano -
The problem is that neither the M1 nor the M60 or indeed neither any tank, has sufficient ground pressure to drive a [bulldozer] blade into even marginally hard ground. They are not bulldozers, they are tanks, whether you are talking about the M1 or the M60's. So if you are going to dig in a tank, you need to have some kind of equipment.
-- Frank Carlucci -
Republicans use think tanks to come up with a lot of their messages. The think tanks are the single worst, most undisciplined example of communication I've ever seen.
-- Frank Luntz -
I can think of nothing worse than a think-tank where everybody agreed.
-- Geoff Mulgan -
I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.
-- George McGovern -
We got 16,000 wonderful vehicles. We got all the steel that we make our tanks out of. Of course, we couldn't have done without Western aid.
-- Georgy Zhukov -
Being in a rock n' roll band was like being in a Sherman tank. Nothing got to you. You were surrounded and protected by men.
-- Grace Slick -
The engine of the tank is a weapon just as the main-gun.
-- Heinz Guderian -
If the tanks succeed, then victory follows.
-- Heinz Guderian -
Now ballads, I can mess around and get up on somebody on a ballad. People ain't seen it yet, but I can mess around and get up in there. I've had Ruben Studdard up in my house, Brian McKnight, Tank. Every once in a while I throw down with them.
-- Jamie Foxx -
I went through phases of odd hairstyles and tank top-over-tee outfits and stuff like that.
-- Jamie Lynn Sigler -
It's the twenty-first century." I told Tank. "Women drive." "Only in my bed," Tank said. "Never in my car.
-- Janet Evanovich -
I disconnected and made a mental note not to call Tank unless I was bleeding profusely, and he was the only other person on earth.
-- Janet Evanovich -
How is the economy supposed to recover when people can't afford to fill the tank?
-- Jay Kay -
But I couldn't cut that whole septic tank scene out because the audience liked it so much. So I sort of fell right back into getting a cheap laugh, but I still loved it.
-- Jay Roach -
By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.
-- Jessica Savitch -
On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border.
-- Jhumpa Lahiri -
Tank's a fantastic human being, as far as fighting's concerned.
-- Jim Brown -
Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era.
-- Jim Cooper -
I've had plenty of friends tell me that their first time doing stand-up, they do well, and then they tank for a while after that. Kind of like the first time you do a drug, you're like, "Huh! This is pretty darn good," and then you spend all your money trying to get the same high.
-- Jim Gaffigan -
The Graveyard of the Atlantic exhibit reflects the aquarium's proximity to the state's Outer Banks, where thousands of ships have run aground over the centuries. Divers in the exhibit carry on a conversation with visitors outside the tank.
-- John Grant -
Happiness is a tiger in your tank and a pussycat in your back seat.
-- Johnny Carson -
I heard that you did not have a judge to interview this month in the Bulletin, so I thought I'd help out. Besides, with the Stock Market tanking recently, it reminded me of the good old days.
-- Joseph Force Crater -
I have a thing for men's boxer briefs and a tank top. If I'm wearing them, I'm a happy gal.
-- Liz Vassey -
Carrying those double tanks around all the time got to be a little rough on me. I had to put that damn wetsuit on and take it off, sometimes three or four times a day.
-- Lloyd Bridges -
Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb
-- Matthieu Ricard -
What people need to do is conserve what they have, .. There is a supply out there; we just need to conserve it. Going up and loading up your tank is not going to do that much. It's just going to deplete the supply, and the problem will eventually catch up to you.
-- Mike Easley -
If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we should still need tanks and generals?
-- Mother Teresa -
The Heart is like a fuel tank, that you always have to keep filling up with Imaan
-- Nouman Ali Khan -
A fish tank is just interactive television for cats.
-- Oliver Gaspirtz -
However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops.
-- Paul von Hindenburg -
Washington, D.C. is full of think tanks, theoreticians and advocacy groups. Governors are the ones whose feet are on the ground.
-- Phil Bredesen -
In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
-- Ralph Peters -
Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the "liberating" kind.
-- Robert Fisk -
A grenade launcher will easily take out a tank; a Molotov cocktail placed in its air intake will destroy one as well.
-- Sebastian Junger -
Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.
-- Shirley Temple -
I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle.
-- Stephan Jenkins -
Yes, heaven forbid I not be protected from tanks.
-- Stephenie Meyer -
Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas.
-- Waylon Jennings -
If you had the mental energy in the tank, you could create in an instant.
-- Wayne Thomas Batson -
To think of a film from the point of view of a tank barrel is already so inhumanly positioned. This is when film can reveal itself scandalously.
-- Elia Suleiman -
That's one way to overcome criticism: tank so hard that failing becomes glorious and meaningless.
-- Greg Walloch -
Photography has clarity in the same way that language has. A word is precise, but its meaning can change based on the words around it: think tank, tank top.
-- Jason Fulford -
When you come to 'Shark Tank,' the only person you should listen to is me, because you know you're getting the truth. I'll decide if it's worth it, and after I'm finished, the rest of the people can look into it.
-- Kevin O'Leary -
A lot of bands are going out and playing for nothing. A lot of bands will go out and get paid, but the gas tank will eat up their paycheck. When they manage to sell a t-shirt or two, there is a little bit of leftover money there so that they don't have to have McDonalds that day. They can actually eat something decent with possibly a bit of cash leftover. It's a huge part of the business now.
-- Matt Snell -
"Fish Tank" [my favorite woman-directed film] by Andrea Arnold. The film is so beautifully shot, and I love the raw energy of Katie Jarvis, who plays the main character, Mia. She is not a professional actress and she provides the film with a sense of realism. To me, the film feels so complete and superior.
-- Nicole Nielsen Horanyi -
I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.
-- P. J. O'Rourke -
When you're public, you're at the mercy of the markets. You can be doing extremely well, but if the markets are in the tank or your industry is in the tank, you don't get rewarded for it.
-- Tilman J Fertitta -
Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long.
-- Vince Poscente -
The rest of the world views the USA the way Silicon Valley views Microsoft. Except with tanks.
-- Brad Templeton -
Hitler overestimated the importance of [technology]. As a result, he would count on a mere handful of assault-gun detachment or the new Tiger tanks to restore situations where only large bodies of troops could have any prospect of success.
-- Erich von Manstein -
Ever see a skinny guy on a cold day? You know they tremble like Chihuahuas. Then you see a fat guy in a tank top - nine degrees, he's sweatin'. Look at 'Titanic,' remember the boat goes into the icy cold waters? Little skinny Leonardo: dead. Final scene, Kathy Bates on a rowboat, coat open, eating a hotdog.
-- Greg Fitzsimmons -
In order to win, you must be fully charged. To be fully charged, you must have gas in your tank.
-- John Addison -
Moderate aspirations lead to a contended life. I don't have to buy the airplane and I can't drive the tank!!
-- Mahesh Babu
