Beatty is reported to have remarked ( to his Flag Captain, Chatfield, later First Sea Lord in the early 1930s ), " there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today ," after two of them had exploded within half an hour during the battle.

' Robert Frost later remarked that writing free verse was like " playing tennis without a net.

He later remarked to Richard J. Anobile in The Marx Brothers Scrapbook, " Not much satisfaction after he killed six million Jews!

Only two weeks before Kennedy had spoken in more conciliatory tones, speaking of " improving relations with the Soviet Union ": in response to Kennedy's Berlin speech, Nikita Khrushchev, days later, remarked that " one would think that the speeches were made by two different Presidents.

In France, former attorney, then later minister of Justice Robert Badinter, remarked about jury trials in France that they were like " riding a ship into a storm ," because they are much less predictable than bench trials.

The later Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm remarked that " One cannot say Marx died a failure " because, although he had not achieved a large following of disciples in Britain, his writings had already begun to make an impact on the leftist movements in Germany and Russia.

After the French party split into a reformist and revolutionary party, some accused Guesde ( leader of the latter ) of taking orders from Marx ; Marx remarked to Lafargue, " What is certain to me is if this is Marxism, then I myself am not Marxist " ( in a letter to Engels, Marx later accused Guesde of being a " Bakuninist ").

Stanford President David Starr Jordan later wrote, " Somebody – Dr. Angell, perhaps – remarked that ' Agassiz was great in the abstract but not in the concrete.

Currie later remarked that Lenihan was his personal friend, and that he felt personally sick at being asked to endorse somebody he did not like, for the sake of beating Lenihan.

After passing a screen test, she moved to California and signed a seven-year contract with Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios ( MGM ) in 1949 ; she later remarked, " Joining Metro was like walking into a dream world.

" It was pretty obvious that the word was getting very popular ", Holmstrom later remarked.

Cardinal Giovanni Montini, who later became Pope Paul VI remarked to a friend that " this holy old boy doesn't realise what a hornet's nest he's stirring up ".

However, in a later ( 2006 ) interview, the director remarked that he had been unhappy about Alien: The Director's Cut, feeling that the original was " pretty flawless " and that the additions were merely a marketing tool.

Matsumoto has later remarked that a factor in choosing the name " Ruby " was because it was the birthstone of one of his colleagues.

Mick Jagger later remarked of a snapshot he took of Orbison in New Zealand: " A fine figure of a man in the hot springs, he was.

It has been implied that the Earth-Romulan War reached Earth, heavily damaging it: two centuries later, it was remarked that Earth had not been subjected to the horrors of total war since the date of the Romulan Wars.

" Robertson for his part denied that Helm had written any of the songs attributed to Robertson and his daughter later remarked in a letter to the Los Angeles Times that Levon Helm's solo work consists almost entirely of songs written by others.

He later remarked that the carnage at Shiloh had made it clear to him that the Confederacy would only be defeated by complete annihilation of its army.

Yeats was less sentimental and later remarked that " the tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.

During the later Tang Dynasty ( 618 – 907 AD ), an Arab traveller to China in the year 851 AD remarked:

The first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in the Trinity test in New Mexico ; Oppenheimer remarked later that it brought to mind words from the Bhagavad Gita: " Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.

About a year later, Eastwood remarked that " All guns should be registered.

( She later remarked, " Revue was one of those let's-throw-everyone-on-the-lot-into-a musical things, but I did a good song-and-dance number .").

She could not resist the opportunity `` of showing her superiority in argument over a man '' which she had remarked as one of the `` feminine follies '' of Sara Sullam ; ;

One man remarked that if he had a hundred pounds, he would give ninety of them to be back in England.

`` Well '', remarked one gentleman who had been forced to accompany his wife, `` the good Lord can eat where angels fear to tread ''.

The judges remarked that this was the year that the channel had " really come into its own.

The aediles had likewise a superintendence over the public buildings, and it is not easy to define with accuracy the respective duties of the censors and aediles, but it may be remarked in general that the superintendence of the aediles had more of a police character, while that of the censors were more financial in subject matter.

Coolidge had been reluctant to choose Hoover as his successor ; on one occasion he remarked that " for six years that man has given me unsolicited advice — all of it bad.

The Irish-Argentine William Bulfin remarked as he travelled around Westmeath in the early 20th century that he came across many locals who had been to Buenos Aires.

After the campaign appeared in the Metro newspaper London the business news website www. mad. co. uk remarked that the IKEA campaign had amazing similarities with the marketing activity of UK home refurbishment company Onis living who had launched their own Not For Sale advertising campaign two years prior and was awarded the Interbuild 2006 Construction Marketing Award for best campaign under £ 25, 000.

Later, however, Booth remarked about his " excellent chance ... to kill the President, if I had wished ".

" Uncle Joe ", as he was known, often clashed with fellow Republican Theodore Roosevelt, who Cannon remarked had " no more use for the Constitution than a tomcat has for a marriage license ".

Nehru remarked about the unprecedented popular response, “ it seemed as though a spring had been suddenly released .” Nehru was arrested on 14 April 1930 while entraining from Allahabad for Raipur.

The assumption in Moscow was that once it was known that he had lost Soviet approval, Tito would collapse ; ‘ I will shake my little finger and there will be no more Tito ,’ Stalin remarked.

Moon remarked that a particular suggestion had gone down like a " lead zeppelin " ( i. e. " lead balloon ").

However, they also remarked that the language spoken in Macedonia had somewhat of a distinctive character — often described as a " Western Bulgarian dialect " as other Bulgarian dialects in modern western Bulgaria.

Adler remarked that many Pagans informed her of how they had adopted polytheism because it allowed a greater freedom, diversity and tolerance of worship amongst the community than that permitted in monotheistic religions.

Heinrich A. Rommen remarked upon " the tenacity with which the spirit of the English common law retained the conceptions of natural law and equity which it had assimilated during the Catholic Middle Ages, thanks especially to the influence of Henry de Bracton ( d. 1268 ) and Sir John Fortescue ( d. cir.

Urban had them seized, tortured and put to death, " a crime unheard of through the centuries " the chronicler Egidio da Viterbo remarked.

Following the election the witty Frederick remarked that he had lost the friendship of a cardinal but made up for it by gaining the enmity of a pope.