Quotes About Battleship

The first movie I literally ever made in my life was about two guys playing Stratego with each other. I had all my friends dressing up like the military characters in the game. So 'Battleship' is really my second board game turned movie!

We need to stop this overspending. We need to start turning this battleship in the right direction. And we all have to share in the sacrifice.

The first time the South Dakota's main battery was tested with a full nine-gun broadside, the wave of blast pressure pushed through the passageway where Captain Thomas Gatch was standing, tearing his pants right off him.

The mutineers in control of San Antonio swiftly converted her into a battleship.

The German Emperor is ageing me; he is like a battleship with steam up and screws going, but with no rudder, and he will run into something some day and cause a catastrophe.

I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.

In a minute and a half Halsey's destroyers had done a million and a half dollars' worth of damage" in a mock attack that should have been a rude wake-up call to the battleship admirals.

To Nimitz, the solution was obvious. Admiral Sims was right: the carrier, not the battleship, was the chief capital ship, and the concentric-circle formation should have the carrier at its center.

was that the possibility of Singapore having no landward defences no more entered into my mind than that of a battleship being launched without a bottom.

torpedo, too, either missed the target or failed to explode. Undaunted, Prien then headed southward, away from the Royal Oak, to reload his bow tubes. An hour later, just past 1:00 a.m., with the crew of the battleship still no wiser about his presence, he returned to fire three more torpedoes.

The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.

Foremost, they proposed building a plant to separate rare U-235 from its cousin U-238. This plant would cost as much as a battleship. In July 1941 the group delivered a road map for an atomic bomb program.

Want to play some Battleship?" I wasn't leaving him alone with that thing in there. Chad armed himself with a notebook, and we went to war. Historically, war has often been used as a distraction for problems at home.