“The job of dedicated missile boats is to pootle about, like mice in carpet slippers, waiting for an order to destroy an entire continent.”

— Jeremy Clarkson

I Know You Got Soul (2004)

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English broadcaster, journalist and writer 1960

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“Bishops are not intercontinental ballistic missiles, manufactured on one continent and fired into another as an act of aggression.”

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On the consecration in Singapore of two conservative American bishops as an act of protest, in a Pastoral letter (28 May 2000), as published in Religious Documents North America Annual (2000), p. 70
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