#submarine

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. ↗

— H.R.H. Prince Philip

#chair #food #submarine #food

Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles! ↗

— Nevil Shute

#disease #humor #illness #measles #radioactivity

If you're trying to get someone who's sick with a fever off of a submarine and it's cold and raining outside, the only way in and out of a submarine, generally, is through a fairly narrow hatch. ↗

— Laurel Clark

#fairly #fever #generally #get #hatch

I catch myself judging myself as that 13-year-old boy, who, of course, rightfully points out that he is only a child. And my membership - well, I was drafted into the Waffen-SS and didn't exactly volunteer, which was just as idiotic. I wanted to be on the submarines and then ended up with the Waffen-SS. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#catch #child #course #drafted #ended

I spin around on the swivel chair and look up at the ceiling; Oliver being Oliver being Oliver being Oliver. I am suddenly aware of the separation between my-actual-self and myself-as-seen-by-others. Who would win in an arm wrestle? Who is better-looking? Who has the higher IQ? ↗

— Joe Dunthorne

#joe-dunthorne #submarine #introspection

This is no job for a UN committee. It needs the same kind of unwavering dedication and the kinds of people that got us the first nuclear submarine and the first man on the moon. ↗

— Wilson Greatbatch

#dedication #first #got #job #kind