Humphrey Lyttelton
Humphrey Lyttelton

For me, it's a bigger challenge, it's much harder to do and much more rewarding to do well, then just to think up stuff of your own, hit or miss, because you've got to see to it that you don't torpedo any of his punch lines.

John Podhoretz
John Podhoretz

Aside from being bad sportsmanship - Romney basically said Obama won by cheating - he was displaying the same obtuseness about the wants and needs of ordinary people that did more to torpedo his campaign than any goodies Obama might have had to dole out.

Richard Le Gallienne
Richard Le Gallienne

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.

Richard Linklater
Richard Linklater

Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point.

Star Trek Into Darkness
Star Trek Into Darkness

Bones: Damn it, man, I'm a doctor, not a torpedo technician!
Spock: The fact that your are a doctor is precisely why I need you to listen very carefully.

Star Trek Into Darkness
Star Trek Into Darkness

Scotty: No! I'm not signing anything! Now get these bloody things off my ship!
[sees Kirk]
Scotty: Captain!
James T. Kirk: Is there a problem, Mr. Scott?
Scotty: Aye, sir! I was just explaining to this gentlemen that I cannae authorize any weapons on board this ship without knowing what's inside them!


Spock: Mr. Scott raises yet another point that le...
James T. Kirk: Report to the bridge.
Spock: Captain.
[leaves the engineering room]
James T. Kirk: Mr. Scott, I understand your concerns but we need these torpedoes on board!
Scotty: Due respect, sir, but photo torpedoes

run on fuel, now I cannae detect the type of fuel that's in the compartments on these torpedoes because it's shielded. Now I asked for the specifications but he says...
[gestures to Torpedo Security]
Torpedo Security: It's classified.
Scotty: [repeating exasperatedly] It's classified. So I said; no specs, no signature!

Sulu: [from deck above] Captain, flight checks complete, we're good to go, sir.
James T. Kirk: Thank you, Mr. Sulu.
Sulu: Yes, sir.
Scotty: Now if you'll excuse me, sir, I have a warp core to prime.
[walks away]
Scotty: [to Keenser] Get down!
Bones: Jim,

your vitals are way off...
James T. Kirk: Report to the medbay.
[follows Scotty to the warp core]
James T. Kirk: Scotty! I need you to approve those weapons.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Dr. Gonzo: Sounds like big trouble. You're going to need plenty of legal advice before this thing is over. As your attorney, I advise you to rent a very fast car with no top. And you'll need the cocaine. Tape recorder for special music. Acapulco shirts. Get the hell out of L.A. for at least 48 hours. Blows my weekend.
Raoul Duke: Why?
Dr.

Gonzo: Because naturally I'm going to have to go with you. And we're going to have to arm ourselves... to the teeth!
Raoul Duke: Well why not? Shit if it's worth doing, it's worth doing right! This is the American Dream in action. We'd be fools not to ride this strange torpedo all the way to the end!

Das Boot
Das Boot

[Chief Bosun enters the torpedo room, which has been dressed up as a red light room]
Chief Bosun: QUIET IN THIS WHOREHOUSE!
[the crew falls silent]
Chief Bosun: Bad news, men.
Ario: What's wrong?
Chief Bosun: [pause] Schalke lost the game. 5-0. No more chance of making the semi-finals.

[exits]
Ario: [throws a can at the bulkhead] I can't believe this shit!

The Fate of the Furious
The Fate of the Furious

Roman Pearce: Is that a torpedo?
Hobbs: Take the wheel!
Roman Pearce: What?
[Hobbs gets out of vehicle, drifts torpedo into a convoy of trucks with his bare hands]

Sunset Blvd.
Sunset Blvd.

Norma Desmond: You're a writer, you said.
Joe Gillis: Why?
Norma Desmond: Are you or aren't you?
Joe Gillis: That's what it says on my guild card.
Norma Desmond: And you have written pictures, haven't you?
Joe Gillis: I sure have. Want a list of my credits?

Norma Desmond: I want to ask you something. Come in here.
Joe Gillis: Last one I wrote was about Okies in the Dust Bowl. You'd never know because when it reached the screen, the whole thing played on a torpedo boat.