I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled.

I have been driven demented in my career.

I am much more intelligent than you think.

This is the war I fear.

The primary factor in a successful attack is speed.

I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man.

No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.

Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.

Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.

Here I am in my first command - a bit dazed but feeling very grand.

I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.

I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.

I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled.

Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.

You can divide my life into two.

It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life.

My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.

Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.

What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?

My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.

Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.

The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.

In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.

I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn.

My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.

I cant think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral.

No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.

I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music.

That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.

Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken of the Sea.'

One of the unique things is that whether we were out at sea or in the middle of the water tank, a lot of times you just couldn't leave. Especially when we were out at sea.

I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.

The bottom of the sea is cruel.

I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.

All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes.

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.

For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties.

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.

Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.

I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.