"That's a lot of ships."
"That's a bloody awful lot of ships."
"Jump engines back on line yet?"
"No. If I signal the fleet, they just might pick it up. If they do, and we can't get away, .."
"Well, who wants to live forever?"
"I do, actually. But what the hell. Signal away."
But where I got it was from Dan Daly - a Marine, twice decorated with the Medal of Honor:
At Lucy li Boucage, on the outskirts of Belleau Wood France, Daly made a comment which still thunders with the Marine spirit today. Outnumbered, outgunned and pinned in a poor position, the Marines were soon to be chopped to pieces by the German Machine gunners. Daly ordered an attack, leaping forward and yelling to his men. He is purported to have said, "Come on you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?" Later Daly told a Marine Historian, "What I really yelled was: For Christ's sake, men-COME ON! Do you want to live forever?"
- my Dad's a Marine - and he told me about Dan when I was a little kid.