Don't Go Near the Water (1957)

Jeff Richards: Lt. Ross Pendleton

Quotes 

• Lt. Ross Pendleton : [describing the running of the grunion]  During this time of the year the slippery little creatures come up on the beach, stop, spawn, then go out to sea again.

  Lt. Alice Tomlen : Sounds like some naval officers I know.

• Ens. Tyson : You know, she knows darn well that little piece of black lace is showin' up above her shirt.

  Lt. Ross Pendleton : You know what she is? A sadist. I know these black underwear kind of women.

• Lt. Alice Tomlen : Good evening, lieutenant.

  Lt. Ross Pendleton : Hey, you look ravishing! What's that perfume?

  Janie : [butting in]  Carbolic acid. She just scrubbed the operating room.

  Lt. Alice Tomlen : [chuckles]  Janie's incurably romantic.

• Lt. Cmdr. Clinton T. Nash : All right, sailors, let's up anchor and get under way. Everything shipshape in your department, Pendleton?

  Lt. Ross Pendleton : Well, frankly, Commander, I've run across a slight snag. Nothing, of course, that I can't lick.

  Lt. Cmdr. Clinton T. Nash : Nothing that we in this department can't lick!

• Lt. Ross Pendleton : You have no idea the variance in loins.

  Lt. J.G. Max Siegel : Well, live and loin, man.