Captain Quotes
469 quotes by 377 authors
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I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.
— Hope Solo
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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…
— Lincoln Steffens
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Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.
— Patrick Stewart
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During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked…
— Patrick Stewart
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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…
— Patrick Stewart
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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
— Ted Turner
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I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
— William Ernest Henley
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Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member…
— Bill Watterson
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Pirate Captain Jim "Walk the plank," says Pirate Jim "But Captain Jim, I cannot swim." "Then you must steer us through the gale." "But Captain…
— Shel Silverstein
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O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is near,…
— Walt Whitman
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I was the captain of the latent paranoid softball team. We used to play all the neurotics on sunday morning. Nailbiters against the bedwetters, and…
— Woody Allen
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This landing is gonna get pretty interesting. Define "interesting". "Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die"? [on speakerphone]: This is the captain: we…
— Joss Whedon
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After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau knew by a…
— Susanna Clarke
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A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at that time -…
— Tom Wolfe
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[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…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good, and to quote Captain Barbossa, the parameters are like…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were so…
— Joseph Heller
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I'm LEP. A captain. No rent-a-cop gnome is going to stand in the way of my orders.
— Eoin Colfer
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A soft Sea washed around the House A Sea of Summer Air And rose and fell the magic Planks That sailed without a care —…
— Emily Dickinson
Who Wrote These Captain Quotes
377 authors contributed a total of 469 Captain Quotes, led by these top contributors: