Captains famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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We're all responsible. I'm the leader, the captain of the ship, and I have to take responsibility.
-- Alan Trammell -
A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.
-- Alphonse Karr -
Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line.
-- Anthony Kennedy -
It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
The captain doesn't think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship,
-- Bashar al-Assad -
It’s up to the captain. I certainly feel my golf is worthy of playing in the Ryder Cup. But I’m not sure I’m on the radar screen of Paul McGinley.
-- Bernhard Langer -
Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.
-- Bob Seger -
I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!
-- Bruce Dickinson -
"Would you, do you, my dear?" rejoined the Captain ... "I don't know. It's difficult navigation. She's very hard to carry on with, my dear. You never can tell how she'll head, you see. She's full one minute, and round upon you next."
-- Charles Dickens -
Above all, a director has to be a good captain.
-- Charlton Heston -
I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.
-- Chris Evans -
Outside the Weirwall, Jack could hear the thud of bodies colliding and the cries of the wounded. It seemed like a lot of noise. Even given the fact that Ellen was involved. "Why'd she go out there?" Jack demanded. "Why didn't you stop her?" Brooks spat on the ground. "Have you ever tried to stop Captain Stephenson from anythin'?
-- Cinda Williams Chima -
It was a peculiar marriage of interests- Lord Averill and Captain Byrne and Lord Bayar and Han Alister agreeing on anything was as rare as gold in Ragmarket.
-- Cinda Williams Chima -
Don't date the captain of the football team; be the captain of the football team.
-- Courtney Love -
You are the captain of your ship that never comes in
-- Daniel Lee -
The first movie that made me cry was Dead Poets Society. That one gets me. O Captain! My Captain! That moment kills me.
-- David Walton -
Now, let's see how you fare against the Flying Dutchman and her vile captain, Davy Jones!
-- Davy Jones -
I always say the time to worry about flying is when you're on the ground. If you don't trust the captain, don't go.
-- Denzel Washington -
It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even have a boat.
-- Don Van Vliet -
Who ever thought that the world-famous Captain Obvious was really mild-mannered Colin Mochrie?
-- Drew Carey -
I always liked the idea of leadership and being a captain.
-- Dylan Lauren -
I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945
-- Eli Wallach -
Onscreen, Foaly rubbed his eyelids with his index fingers. "Yeah, yeah. Here we go. Captain Short goes rogue once more. Hands up who's surprised. Anyone?
-- Eoin Colfer -
A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.
-- Eugene Ionesco -
Woe to me if I should prove myself but a halfhearted soldier in the service of my thorn-crowned Captain.
-- Fidelis of Sigmaringen -
Superman punched out Hitler. So did Captain America. That's one of the things they're there for.
-- Frank Miller -
Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.
-- Fritz Lang -
What would you do if your country's welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain.
-- Fritz Sauckel -
Captain Niall, having apparently resigned himself to losing his quarry, was savaging her horsehair petticoat into teeny, tiny shreds. "Really, what did my poor petticoat do to offend?
-- Gail Carriger -
Do you feel it's right for the England Captain to avoid his media duties?
-- Garth Crooks -
Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.
-- George Farquhar -
He's pulling him off! The Spanish manager is pulling his captain off
-- George Hamilton -
Chance works for us when we are good captains.
-- George Meredith -
Dare, dare, my dear brethren in Christ, to follow the Captain of your salvation, who was made perfect through sufferings
-- George Whitefield -
In calm water every ship has a good captain.
-- Grover Cleveland -
The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat.
-- Guy Lafleur -
MS Dhoni still the best bet as Test, ODI captain. No calmer finisher than Dhoni
-- Harsha Bhogle -
The main reason I did 'Captain America' was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously.
-- Hayley Atwell -
I'm like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port.
-- Henrique Capriles Radonski -
You are the Master of your Fate, the Captain of your Soul.
-- Henry Ford -
During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.
-- Honore de Balzac -
There are many of our so-called captains on industry who, if the truth were told, and a shorter and uglier word were not unpermissible, are little better than malefactors of great wealth.
-- James Branch Cabell -
There's the pressure of being a No. 1 on the call sheet, being a lead actor. There's almost this feeling like being captain of the team. You want to put a bit of energy into actually setting a good example.
-- Joel Edgerton -
The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it.
-- Joey Ramone -
There's a lot of me in Captain Jack and there's a lot of Captain Jack in me. And there is no pun intended.
-- John Barrowman -
I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.
-- John E. Walker -
We estimate that there are perhaps 20,000 prehistoric hunter-gatherers frozen up in those glaciers. Now, if they simply thaw and wander around, it's not a problem, but if they find a leader - a Captain Caveman, if you will - we'll be facing an even more serious problem.
-- John Hodgman -
You don't have to be captain to have an opinion.
-- John Terry -
I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.
-- Johnny Depp -
Captain America' was probably the most universally positive experience I've had in this mad business.
-- Joseph E. Johnston -
What do you do when it rains?" The captain answered frankly. "I get wet.
-- Joseph Heller -
I always thought that the badge a cop has was more like the shield that Captain America has. It's an obvious sign of good and something you'll protect other people with, but it will also protect you.
-- Judd Nelson -
What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!
-- Jules Verne -
Every team that I've played on, I've either been the captain or co-captain.
-- Julius Erving -
Dhoni backed Jadeja to play aggressively and backed Ishant to bowl short. I have not seen a better Indian captain than him.
-- Kapil Dev -
To experience conflicts knowingly, though it may be distressing, can be an invaluable asset. The more we face our own conflicts and seek out our own solutions, the more inner freedom and strength we will gain. Only when we are willing to bear the brunt can we approximate the ideal of being the captain of our ship. Spurious tranquillity rooted in inner dullness is anything but enviable. It is bound to make us weak and an easy prey to any kind of influence.
-- Karen Horney -
I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.
-- Ken Follett -
During my time as England captain I have always been both helpful and direct in my communications with the ECB.
-- Kevin Pietersen -
When you're the conscious captain in your kitchen, you'll feel better mentally and physically.
-- Kris Carr -
My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.
-- Lincoln Steffens -
I stand by my opinions when I know I'm right, Captain Phelan. Whereas you stand by yours merely because you're stubborn.
-- Lisa Kleypas -
A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.
-- Lister Sinclair -
A captain always knows where his ship is. It's like a psychic bond." "If only we had a captain here.
-- Marissa Meyer -
Well, my transition into being a captain was easy.
-- Mark Messier -
But I just think as a captain, everybody's different.
-- Mark Messier -
When Wayne was traded, I became captain. For me it really wasn't anything - I didn't do anything or I didn't feel I had to do anything different than what I had been doing all along.
-- Mark Messier -
Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.
-- Mark Millar -
A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.
-- Melanie Laurent -
Call me 'Tuk-Tuk', and keep saying it, but remember I am the captain of Pakistan.
-- Misbah-ul-Haq -
There are 2 types of captains in World Cricket. One is MS Dhoni and the other are the all others.
-- Navjot Singh Sidhu -
the captain is supposed to go down with the ship" . "unless the first mate knocks him out and throws him in a lifeboat
-- Neal Shusterman -
I'm obsessed with the Victorian era and the British Royal Navy... I'd love to play a troubled sailor or captain or a boatman on a three masted ship.
-- Nick Offerman -
I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
-- Patrick Carney -
As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.
-- Patrick Stewart -
Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.
-- Patrick Stewart -
In Medford, I awaked the Captain of the Minute Men; & after that, I alarmed almost every house, till I got to Lexington.
-- Paul Revere -
For sure I would be a very emotional captain. A very hands-on captain.
-- Payne Stewart -
Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.
-- Peter Fonda -
Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.
-- Peter Ustinov -
But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority
-- Ray Bradbury -
Calling all citizens all over the world, this is Captain America calling.
-- Ray Davies -
You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.
-- Rebecca Harding Davis -
To my crew: Please be reasonable and do it my way. The Captain
-- Rusty Mills -
Dhoni Is The Best Captain I Have Played Under
-- Sachin Tendulkar -
I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
-- Sally Schneider -
I was a huge fan of the original 'Star Trek,' and I'd never even dreamed that I would someday be captain of a starship.
-- Scott Bakula -
Who cares who's captain after the wings have fallen off.
-- Scott McNealy -
Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
-- Sophocles -
Dhoni is one of the greatest captain I have ever seen
-- Sourav Ganguly -
You're never too worried as a captain, when you know Rahul Dravid's still out there.
-- Sourav Ganguly -
I didn't sleep with the European Cup but it was in my room! It was just special and I just had to have the cup with me, lifting the cup as Liverpool captain was just the best moment of my life.
-- Steven Gerrard -
It's only some rice and beans Captain. It's not like I'm giving you Cara's hand in marriage." - Richard
-- Terry Goodkind
