Captains Quotes - Page 6

• Captain, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.

  Joss Whedon

  Firefly, Thinking, Missing

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• Call me 'Tuk-Tuk', and keep saying it, but remember I am the captain of Pakistan.

  Misbah-ul-Haq

  Pakistan, Remember, Call Me

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• You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?

  Tom Waits

  Strong, Sleep, Angel

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• Captain Phelan,” Cam asked, choosing his words with care. “Have you come to ask for our consent to marry Beatrix?” Christopher shook his head. “If I decide to marry Beatrix, I’ll do it with or without your consent.” Leo looked at Cam. “Good God,” he said in disgust. “This one’s worse than Harry.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Care, Good God, Said

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Love in the Afternoon”, p.210, Macmillan

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• Beatrix puts a distance between herself and the rest of the world. She’s very engaging, but also quite private in nature. I see the same qualities in Captain Phelan.” “Yes,” Amelia said. “You’re absolutely right, Catherine. Put that way, the match does seem more appropriate.” “I still have reservations,” Leo said. “You always do,” Amelia replied. “If you’ll recall, you objected to Cam in the beginning, but now you’ve accepted him.” “That’s because the more brothers-in-law I acquire,” Leo said, “the better Cam looks by comparison.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Brother, Distance, Law

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Love in the Afternoon”, p.157, Macmillan

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• But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority

  Ray Bradbury

  Enemy, Majority, Remember

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.53, Hamilton Books

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• There was some murmuring, but also some grins on the faces of the men looking on: the sight of their Captain sitting on the ground and eye to eye with a young hobbit, legs well apart, bristling with wrath, was one beyond their experience.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Eye, Men, Wrath

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.454, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Vik? You ready? (Devyn) Your stupidity is what I live for, Captain. (Vik)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Stupidity, Ready

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• Any more bitching from the geriatric crew? What a bunch of old women. Should I hire another crewmate to change your bed diapers while I’m at it? Next time I’ll let The League have you. Vik, I’m relinquishing control back to you. (Devyn) It’s what I live for. By the way, ye organic life forms aren’t the only ones who’ve soiled themselves. Can I have a minute to attend my needs, Captain Asshole? (Vik)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  League, Bed, Needs

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• You realise Group Captain that this might be the most important weather forecast in history?

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Weather, History, Historical

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• At 15, 16, you think you're going to be captain of England. But I realised it wasn't going to happen for me on a windy November night in Darlington, coming to my peak at the age of 23 but still playing for Mansfield Town.

  Aidy Boothroyd

  Soccer, Football, Night

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• Dhoni has been an outstanding captain. His record as captain is simply terrific. He has done wonders to Indian cricket.

  Sourav Ganguly

  Dhoni, Done, Records

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• During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

  Honore de Balzac

  Simplicity, Storm, Cargo

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• I had thirty weeks of prep on 'Captain America.' I have a small team of qualified, supportive, creative producers who are actually helping me achieve my vision of the film. I had a dream cast headed by Chris Evans. I had the best designers, artists, sculptors, craftspeople.

  Joe Johnston

  Dream, Team, Artist

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• Maybe it's every kid's dream to go into a pod and come out looking like Captain America. And you don't even have to exercise or lift weights! It's great!

  Joe Johnston

  Dream, Kids, Exercise

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• Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.

  William Hull

  Sympathy, Bible, Support

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• I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.

  Mickey Melchiondo

  School, Sea, Fishing

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• The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.

  Blaise Pascal

  Politics, Ships, Best Family

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• It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes, saints, and geniuses have been the captains of their souls for any extended period of their lives.

  Walter Lippmann

  Hero, Ambition, Soul

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface to Morals”, p.14, Transaction Publishers

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• I know that, as captain, you are in a privileged position and must always abide by Fifa's code of fair play, something which I have always done throughout my career.

  David Beckham

  Play, Careers, Fifa

  "Beckham says sorry". www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2004.

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• I do not dwell on dreams I know how soon a dream becomes an expectation How can I have expectations? Look at me, No, Captain, Look at me, Look at me!

  Stephen Sondheim

  Dream, Expectations, Looks

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• Rhett: Don't start flirting with me. I'm not one of your plantation beaux. I want more than flirting from you.
  Scarlett: What do you want?
  Rhett: I'll tell you, Scarlett O'Hara, if you'll take that Southern-belle simper off your face. Someday I want you to say to me the words I heard you say to Ashley Wilkes: "I love you!"
  Scarlett: That's something you'll never hear from me, Captain Butler, as long as you live.

  Clark Gable

  Love, Flirting, Long

  "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.

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• I got nothing against the honest cop on the beat. You just have them transferred someplace where they can't do you any harm. But don't ever talk to me about the honor of police captains or judges. If they couldn't be bought they wouldn't have the job.

  Al Capone

  Jobs, Judging, Police

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• When Captain America died, Americans heard it in an American way: through the media. When Captain Britain died, the British felt it in their chests.

  Paul Cornell

  Media, America, Way

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• A writer is very much like the captain on a star ship facing the unknown. When you face the blank page and you have no idea where you're going. It can be terrifying, but it can also be the adventure of a lifetime.

  Michael Piller

  Stars, Adventure, Ideas

  Biography/Pesonal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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