Submarines Quotes

Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.

Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.

Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

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

Just like the submarines, deep men are also unaffected by the storms!

If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

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.

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.

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.

I was in the first submarine. Instead of a periscope, they had a kaleidoscope. "We're surrounded."

We will build a Navy of 350 surface ships and submarines, as recommended by the bipartisan National Defense Panel. We right now only have 276 ships, and it's not enough.

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

It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store's ambient stereo. The movie of my life must be really low-budget.

For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world.

Somewhere, deep within her, surfaces a tiny clockwork submarine. There are times when you can only take the next step. And then another.

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

Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest of the service, and yet at the heart unchangingly of the Service

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

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.