Submarine Quotes 

Great works of art can be produced in barbarous societies in fact the very narrowness of primitive society gives their ornamental art a peculiar concentration and vitality. At some time in the ninth century one could have looked down the Seine and seen the prow of a Viking ship coming up the river. Looked at today in the British Museum, it is a powerful work of art; but to the mother of a family trying to settle down in her little hut, it would have seemed less agreeable as menacing to her civilisation as the periscope of a nuclear submarine.
Kenneth Clark
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I've always felt that stylists such as you have in America are ashamed of a car and are preoccupied with making it look like something else, like a submarine or an airship...As an engineer, I revolt against this.

alec issigonis

— The New York Times [1]

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Erich Ludendorff was considered the brains of the new German command. He pushed for the resumption of unlimited submarine warfare, which ultimately brought America into the conflict.

erich ludendorff

— Winston Groom

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[Belafonte] was a good teacher and looked after me. He said, 'You have such great talent, you must try not to be a tornado - be like a submarine. It was good advice when I found myself speaking at the UN Committee Against Apartheid and then the UN General Assembly.

miriam makeba

— As quoted in Denselow, Robin (16 May 2008)

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The Athenia sinking — when I broadcast that this was done not by our U-boats but by the British, I had Raeder's word for it. It was Raeder's fault. He knew and Hitler knew it was a German submarine.

erich raeder

— Hans Fritzsche, to Leon Goldensohn (20 May 1946)

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In order to carry out orders from the southern army I sent 50,000 troops to Leyte, but due to air and submarine attacks half of them were lost.

tomoyuki yamashita

— Quoted in "Yamashita Denies Any Atrocity Link" - New York Times - November 29, 1945

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You may hear people say that submarines have done away with the battleship, and that aircraft have annulled the mastery of the sea. That is what our pessimists say. But do you imagine that the clumsy submarine or the fragile aeroplane is really the last word of science?

john buchan

— Ch. 3 "Tells of a Midsummer Night"

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When I assumed command of the Pacific Fleet in 31 December, 1941; our submarines were already operating against the enemy, the only units of the Fleet that could come to grips with the Japanese for months to come. It was to the submarine Force that I looked to carry the load until our great industrial activity could produce the weapons we so sorely needed to carry the war to the enemy. It is to the everlasting honor and glory of our submarine personnel that they never failed us in our days of peril.

chester w. nimitz

— Foreword, in United States Submarine Operations in World War II. (1949) by Theodore Roscoe, p. v

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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.

duke of edinburgh philip

— 1986 statement as quoted in "Long line of princely gaffes" BBC News (1 March 2002)

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The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

charles stross

— Chapter 1 (“Lobsters”), p. 1 (quoting Edsger W. Dijkstra)

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