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Quotes About Hull

You hear rushing air. If you penetrate the hull at deep depth, the sudden pressure change inside the hull supposedly causes the air to ignite and everyone inside the boat incinerates. I
~ Tom Clancy
Information Theory would inform a mechanical calculator in much the same way as, say, fluid dynamics would inform the hull of a ship.
~ Neal Stephenson
The Hull job had been offered to me and while watching Chelsea against Bayern Munich I was thinking: 'I'm going to give it a crack.' I'd rather be managing than commentating.
~ Steve Bruce
An escort carrier was built on a cargo ship's hull. Shipbuilding magnate Henry J. Kaiser was the Lee Iacocca of his day, a visionary industrialist whose name was a household word.
~ James D. Hornfischer
The Mont Blanc, with 2,925 tons of explosives in barrels and kegs, packed in hermetically sealed holds inside a super-heated hull, was now the most powerful bomb the war and the world had ever produced.
~ Laura M. MacDonald
The ships were mostly black—pitch black. They derived their blackness, and their ominous aura, from the tar covering the hull
~ Laurence Bergreen
nightmare as razor-sharp rocks sawed into her hull, and she began taking on water.
~ Laurence Bergreen
but the sea yielded only a few planks broken off from Santiago's hull.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Though Kurt would later claim that his graffiti messages were political, in fact, most of what he wrote was nonsensical. He enraged a neighbor with a boat by painting "Boat Ack" in red letters on the ship's hull; on the other side he lettered, "Boat people go home.
~ Charles R. Cross
I didn't become interested in derivatives until 1982, 1983.
~ John Hull
yards, she recognized the light blue hull of the modified 747.
~ Dan Brown
inclinations prompted me to.  But being one day at Hull, where
~ Daniel Defoe
My father was executive officer, which is second-in-command, on a ship called the Hull, one of three ordered into a typhoon by Admiral Halsey - an insane and sadistic decision.
~ Greil Marcus
The foghorn of Boston Light moaned across the harbor, a sound Teddy had heard every night of his childhood in Hull. The loneliest sound he knew. Made you want to hold something, a person, a pillow, yourself.
~ Dennis Lehane
Technically the barge's hull was only partly existent in reality and therefore couldn't be torn open if it hit a rock. But Kai didn't want to end up arguing with a barge determined that it had been hulled and needed to sink; the canal was too deep for that.
~ Martha Wells