The Best Skip Tyler Quotes

Skip: [looking at photos of Red October which show the doors in the front and back of the sub] I'll be... this... this could be a caterpillar.
Jack: A what?
Skip: Uh, a caterpillar drive. Magneto hydrodynamic propulsion. You follow?
Jack: No.
Skip: It's like a... a jet engine for the water. Goes in the front, gets squirted out the back. Only it has no moving parts, so it's very, very quiet.
Jack: Like how quiet?
Skip: It's doubtful our sonar would even pick it up. And if it did, it'd sound like... whales humping or some kind of seismic anomaly. Anything but a submarine. We messed with this a couple years ago. Couldn't make it work. They really built this? This isn't a mock-up or anything?
Jack: She put to sea this morning.
Skip: When I was twelve, I helped my daddy build a bomb shelter in our basement because some fool parked a dozen warheads 90 miles off the coast of Florida. This thing could park a couple of hundred warheads off Washington and New York and no one would know anything about it until it was all over.

Skip: When I was twelve, I helped my daddy build a bomb shelter in our basement because some fool parked a dozen warheads 90 miles off the coast of Florida. Well, this thing could park a coupla hundred warheads off Washington and New York and no one would know anything about it till it was all over.