Submarines Quotations

For years, I've been wondering what could happen to nuclear submarines when they dive and disappear from the surface of the earth for months, without a trace. No one really knows where they are.

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

I would say that during my lifetime, one of the worst political scandals in Sweden was absolutely what happened surrounding the affair of the submarines in Swedish waters in 1982, where there were supposed to be Russian submarines close to Stockholm. And the military of Sweden never got one up.

I've been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear ice breaker.

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

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

Numbers matter, ... The Chinese obviously believe that numbers matter because they're turning out submarines like sausages. The Chinese are definitely on the winning end of an arms race.

We are not proposing that the Navy buy more submarines than they are currently planning. What we are proposing is to buy them in a more cost-effective manner.

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

The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.

There are actually three French companies, one of them in the public sector, from which we are buying the submarines and not two.

Bond in 'Goldeneye' is pretty much a set character. To be honest, he's another version of Connery, and Connery was terrific. How many submarines can you blow up? How many control rooms are evaporating?

The submarines should be able to move in a coordinated fashion inside the fish tank without running into each other or the walls of the tank.

The sort of operational implementation of the Global Strike is CONCEPT PLAN (CONPLAN) 8022. That's the one that is the actual plan that the Navy and the Air Force translate into strike package for their submarines and bombers.

Scaling back the U.S. fleet of 14 nuclear-armed submarines to eight would maintain a robust deterrent at sea while generating billions in savings and easing pressure on the Navy's shipbuilding budget.

This is not like the submarines you see in the movies. It's really a luxury yacht that dives to 1,000 feet.

This merger would give General Dynamics a permanent monopoly in nuclear submarines and would substantially lessen competition in surface combatants.

There were Japanese submarines out there, and we got credit for two of them and credited for knocking down four planes on our way out.

This is where we have the design and development of the best submarines in the world, ... That is what was most at risk with this center of excellence.

In Yellow Submarine, we used chains that were there and all sorts of bowls and things. And of course, we used bowls of water too. And bottles with straws, blowing them into the water, to get the effect of submarines surfacing, that kind of thing. It was nice to do because it, we were all being very inventive. And it was fun, it was like a party almost.

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

When you're on a submarine you're usually underwater for months at a time, and you don't get to Skype or make phone calls. When you get messages, they're maybe two sentences. They're very short.

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.

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.

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.

The challenges that I see at the high end are anti-submarine warfare. There are about 140 diesel submarines that operate in the Pacific. We, as a Navy, are good at anti-submarine warfare. We can always get better, and that's what we're doing because we have to be able to dominate that growing submarine capability.

If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

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

Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.

Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive.

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