Quotes and Sayings About Captains
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We're all responsible. I'm the leader, the captain of the ship, and I have to take responsibility.
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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 KennedySource : "Anton Corbijn’s Spy Games". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 23, 2014.
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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-AssadSource : "Syrian President: U.S.-led airstrikes have caused 'no change' in ISIS strength" by Greg Botelho, www.cnn.com. December 3, 2014.
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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 -
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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 DickinsonSource : "Octomom Talks Reality Show, Dough & Donor" by Breanne L. Heldman, www.eonline.com. April 8, 2009.
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"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."
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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 EvansSource : "Fear game" by Lucy Carrigan, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2008.
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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.
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You are the captain of your ship that never comes in
-- Daniel Lee -
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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!
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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 -
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It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even have a boat.
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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 LaurenSource : "How Ralph Lauren's Daughter Is Building A Candy Empire" by David Mielach, www.businessinsider.com. April 19, 2012.
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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 WallachSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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 -
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Superman punched out Hitler. So did Captain America. That's one of the things they're there for.
-- Frank MillerSource : "Frank Miller's Holy Terror sends superhero to battle al-Qaida" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2011.
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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 LangSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.