Submarines quotes

  • When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile.
    -- Charles Frohman

    #Smile #Stars #Submarines

  • Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.
    -- Denis Waitley

    #Running #Submarines #Silent

  • Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.
    -- Frank Pittman

    #Marriage #Submarines #Safe

  • A common denominator in every single nuclear accident - a nuclear plant or on a nuclear submarine - is that before the specialists even know what has happened, they rush to the media saying, 'There's no danger to the public.' They do this before they themselves know what has happened because they are terrified that the public might react violently, either by panic or by revolt.
    -- Jacques Yves Cousteau

    #Media #Nuclear #Submarines

  • If you are a programmer working in 2006 and you don’t know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I’m going to punish you by making you peel onions for six months in a submarine.
    -- Joel Spolsky

    #Character #Onions #Submarines

  • Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.
    -- Kathryn Bigelow

    #Heroism #Submarines #Way

  • With a different form of wireless instrument devised by me some years ago it was found practicable to locate a body of metallic ore below the ground, and it seems that a submarine could be similarly detected.
    -- Nikola Tesla

    #Years #Submarines #Body

  • The launch of Nautilus, the world's first atomic submarine marked a transition in naval warfare-a transition as sudden as that associated with the Monitor.
    -- Waldemar Kaempffert

    #Navy #Submarines #World

  • Of course, you're always going to be biased but Submarine was amazing and I'm not surprised that people liked it.
    -- Yasmin Paige

    #People #Submarines #Biased

  • In the Arctic I met some Russian sailors on a submarine and they chorused, "Gordon's alive!"
    -- Brian Blessed

    #Submarines #Alive #Sailor

  • I believe the only way you can make sure that submarines will not be abused in future wars is that there should be no submarines.
    -- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

    #War #Believe #Submarines

  • I don't know where you're reading all this stuff, but it's pretty accurate, yes. It was in 1942. I was on a ship called the Accelo(ph) coming back from the Red Sea and we were sunk off the coast of Africa by a German submarine. And I was in a lifeboat for 14 days and landed and lived with the Pondos in South Africa while - who took care of us and took care of me. I had some wound in my left leg.
    -- Haskell Wexler

    #Reading #Sea #Submarines