Admiralty's Quotes

#1. THE ADMIRALTY'S focus was elsewhere, on a different ship that it deemed far more valuable.

Erik Larson

#2. Jonas knew for a fact that it had been purchased by the Admiralty with a view to carrying out some very hush-hush experiments!

Agatha Christie

#3. I lived at admiralty house from 2002 until 2006 on advice from special branch on security grounds as defence secretary. The alternative of providing comprehensive security at my personal property would have entailed significant extra costs to the taxpayer.

Geoff Hoon

#4. How many have gone? How many more to go? The Admiralty is fast asleep and lethargy & inertia are the order of the day. However everybody seems delighted - so there is nothing to be said. No plans, no enterprise, no struggle to aid the general cause. Just sit still on the spacious throne and snooze.

Winston Churchill

#5. It is a well known fact that a man learns best that which he endeavors to teach others.

Napoleon Hill

#6. Working in a lab for twenty years has left me with two stories: the one that I have to write, and the one that I want to. Science is an institution

Hope Jahren

#7. The Admiralty said it was a plane and not a boat, the Royal Air Force said it was a boat and not a plane, the Army were plain not interested.

Christopher Cockerell

#8. They were going to work, I could see it in their eyes, they had that vacant wage-earner look. I

Karl Ove Knausgard

#9. Each poem holds the voice of a moment.
Held within, they are contained, damned to silence;
released, they fly into the world to find a new heart and a new home within,
where they will speak again.

Noa Daniels

#10. Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced.

James Nasmyth

#11. When I was first sent from H.M.S. King Alfred to be interviewed by Goodeve in the Admiralty, I was furious. The War seemed to me, in June of 1940, to be desperately serious, and England in imminent peril of invasion.

Nevil Shute

#12. The disaster had an important secondary effect: because two of the cruisers had stopped to help survivors of the initial attack and thus made themselves easy targets, the Admiralty issued orders forbidding large British warships from going to the aid of U-boat victims.

Erik Larson

#13. A poet must discover that it's his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

Jim Harrison