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Quotes About Captain

To Strange's unnautical eye, it looked very much as if the ship had simply lain down and gone to sleep. He felt that if he had been the Captain he would have spoken to her sternly and made her get up again.
~ Susanna Clarke
When she heard the deep-sleep breathing of Captain Montgomery, she turned and hissed at him. How could he sleep? The most awful things could happen and men never lost their appetites or their ability to sleep. Put food in front of a man and he ate it. Lay a man horizontal and he went to sleep—or he began fumbling with the buttons on a woman's dress.
~ Jude Deveraux
I assume you're a refugee from the dance inside." "I escaped the enemy, captain," I said. I could see the side of his, and his smile. "Ah," he said. "At long last, a promotion.
~ Judy Blundell
The support of the coaches Ricky Ponting and Sourav Ganguly... Their experience as a captain, along with the belief they instill in us, is great.
~ Shikhar Dhawan
They say the captain goes down with the ship, so when the world ends, will God go down with it?
~ Fall Out Boy
They say the captain goes down with the ship, so when the world ends, will God go down with it? (note from me: of course I don't believe this, I just thought it was interesting)
~ Fall Out Boy
Derek Jeter always felt like New York: the good-looking single guy for all those years. He felt like a Yankee.
~ Colin Cowherd
Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.
~ Mickey Spillane
My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.
~ Joseph C. Lincoln
One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
~ Patricia Schroeder
You get spoiled on 'Captain America,' where your trailer's two blocks long and it's got three bedrooms.
~ Frank Grillo
During my career as an airline pilot, I had the opportunity to be a check and training captain. Part of this job was to train and test experienced pilots to ensure that they had the necessary knowledge and skills to safely and efficiently operate those magnificent big jets.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
There was a little less pressure to be fit on 'The Avengers' than 'Captain America.' I had just finished 'Captain America,' so I was already built. Plus, 'Captain America' has that one scene dramatic scene where my transformation is revealed. 'The Avengers' has not one shirtless scene.
~ Chris Evans
As captain I enjoy the responsibility. Even when I didn't have the armband I was doing a lot outwith the club so it has been an easy transition.
~ Ross McCormack
But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority
~ Ray Bradbury
captain's office?" he asked.
~ Michael Connelly
Da soll mich doch gleich ein gekochter Hummer kitzeln, grollte der Kapitän
~ Michael Ende
Ever since I was a boy, I have wanted to be a professional footballer and to captain my country one day.
~ Aaron Ramsey
I've got that ruthlessness inside me. All good captains have to be able to say things like that - with good man-management skills.
~ Alastair Cook
[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)
~ Jane Austen
Never be in thrall to anyone but your own wants and desires, because only you can make yourself happy. Fly your own flag, and be true to it. Your soul is the true captain.
~ Billy Idol
The captain swore polyglot -very polyglot- polyglot with bloom and blood.
~ Bram Stoker
Experience had taught her that an enthusiastic officer was a bad thing; an enthusiastic idiot in a captain's uniform was a
~ Tanya Huff