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Quotes About Captain

Cassano? His talent has never been in question, but his character has. As Italian captain and a big admirer I can only wish him to control his nerves better.
~ Fabio Cannavaro
Humility is well and good but facts persevere beyond the shadow of one's own feelings," Ackbar says. "You saved Captain Antilles. You helped us capture two high-value Imperial targets—General Jylia Shale, and Palpatine's adviser Yupe Tashu—and confirm the deaths of two others: Moff Valco Pandion and slaver Arsin Crassus." The way Ackbar says that word slaver—it drips with rage and condescension.
~ Chuck Wendig
Don't judge me, Captain Judgeypants. I go there for the sandwiches.)
~ Chuck Wendig
The captain moniker derived from a tired blue hat he wore on his head. It was the classic captain's hat favored by rich yachtsmen, sporting crossed gold anchors on its prow. Dahlgren's hat, however, looked like it had been run over by an M-1 tank.
~ Clive Cussler
Hi there, this is Captain Nemo of the Submarine Nautilus speaking. Over. You're who? The guy in Twenty Zillion Leagues Under the Sea. You know. Great flick. Saw it when I was a kid in Seattle. Best part was the fight with the giant squid.
~ Clive Cussler
home on 25 November 1854. He settled down in Surrey, married and continued to serve in the militia. He died in 1889. Temple Godman He was born in 1832 into a wealthy Surrey landed family and was educated at Eton. He joined the 5th Dragoon Guards in 1851 as a Cornet – the commission cost £840. He bought his promotion to Lieutenant in March 1854 and to Captain just over a year later. (The latter promotion cost £3,225 – about £150,000 at today's prices.)
~ Clive Ponting
You're a pure, holy angel of goodness, and I'm Satan's evil whore of a daughter. So yeah, we can't work. Thanks for pointing that out, Captain Obvious. But we can fuck.
~ Larissa Ione
and the priest, Pero Sánchez de la Reina, who had conspired with the Castilian captain.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Magellan capitalized on a piece of luck. The longboat belonging to Concepción's captain, Gaspar de Quesada
~ Laurence Bergreen
dinner, the band of would-be mutineers drank a great deal and decided that they had nothing to fear from the Captain General
~ Laurence Bergreen
Late that night, Concepción stirred with life. The captain, Quesada, lowered himself into a longboat
~ Laurence Bergreen
the captain depended on them for dead reckoning and changing the watches. A ship without a functioning ampolleta was effectively disabled.
~ Laurence Bergreen
the captain depended on them for dead reckoning and changing the watches. A ship without a functioning ampolleta was effectively disabled. Operating the ampolletas aboard the armada had religious
~ Laurence Bergreen
Under cover of darkness, they boarded San Antonio and rushed to the captain's cabin
~ Laurence Bergreen
Winter, in London, was thrown into prison for deserting the captain general.
~ Laurence Bergreen
and a considerable amount of his authority as Captain General
~ Laurence Bergreen
Her Majesty dined on board, and after dinner conferred the honour of knighthood on the captain.
~ Laurence Bergreen
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
~ Charles Baudelaire
O Death, old captain, it is time! raise the anchor!
~ Charles Baudelaire
captain said and did was honestly according to his nature;
~ Charles Dickens
Go to any sea-port town and you will see that the Sea-captain who has retired upon his well-earned savings, sets up a weather-cock in full view from his windows, and watches the variations of the wind as duly as when he was at sea, though no longer with the same anxiety.
~ Robert Southey
Like the fire drills, lifeboat drills had been suspended by Captain Wilmott because the captain insisted they "upset passengers." As a reminder of the potential cruelty of the sea, they were not in keeping with the balmy world of the pleasure cruise.
~ Gordon Thomas
Acting Captain Warms' reasons for not requesting help from the cutter are equally unsatisfactory. He had not anticipated that the Tampa would carry such gear. Even so, he declared later, it would not have been feasible to ferry it across in such weather.
~ Gordon Thomas
Acting Captain Warms' first terrible miscalculation came when he executed the textbook turn into the wind to meet the storm squall.
~ Gordon Thomas