Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.
If you don't get a laugh I immediately think it's somebody else's fault. You can always blame the material. But when it's just yourself and songs that you've picked up because you love them and stories that you've written yourself and patter you think is really funny if that tanks, there's no one to blame it on. God knows, I try!
Think tanks do have points of view, and they are absolutely entitled to defend them.
When you're six, most of your Bingo balls are still floating around in the draw-tank.
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.
Simon: 'You know men. We have delicate egos. ' Clary: 'I wouldn't describe Jace's ego as delicate. ' Simon: 'No, Jace's is sort of the antiaircraft artillery tank of male egos.
Chief of security : They have a tank! How did they get a tank up here?
The car bomb was fertilizer, gasoline, fireworks and propane tanks. . . still safer than a Toyota.
A boxer is like a lion, the greatest predator on land, but you throw him in the shark tank and he's just another meal.
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.
think about the way God rules. He doesn't do it by sending in the tanks. He does it by calling servants.
Moderate aspirations lead to a contended life. I don't have to buy the airplane and I can't drive the tank!!
At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.
Don't assume that the way that one searches and researches is the same from one era to another - it isn't. In the 19th century, most research was done by amateurs: either individuals who were rich or individuals who had a day job. In the 20th century, most researchers worked at universities or think tanks and received money from the government or from foundations to pursue their work. In our time, the sources of support and the locations for research may be quite different.
Life is about flows not about stuff we have. Water in a tank turns bad. Water that flows gives life. Money in banks turn toxic, it must flow
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.
They are going to surrender or be burned in their tanks. They will surrender, it is they who will surrender.
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.
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.
The grass is always greener over the septic tank.