Captain Quotes

• [ Serialism ] is like a sailless ship, driven out to sea by its captain, who has grown tired of its being used only as a pontoon, and who is privately convinced that by subjecting life aboard to the rules of an elaborate protocol, he will prevent the crew from thinking nostalgically either of their home port or of their ultimate destination....

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Home

• When I was doing 'Family Ties,' I was not quite that mellow as a real father. In fact, my wife used to call me Captain Von Trapp from 'The Sound of Music.' I tended to be a little more authoritarian. I had been a very disciplined child myself, so I made the mistake of thinking one size fits all.

  

  Michael Gross
  • Music
  • Family
  • Mistake

• Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

  

  Ami Ayalon
  • Future
  • Earth
  • Present

• A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.

  

  Ami Ayalon
  • Earth
  • Wind
  • Sail

• When your bowling is not firing, any captain is going to struggle.

  

  Allan Border
  • Struggle
  • Captain
  • Bowling

• I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Destiny
  • Sense
  • Ship

• Very much so. Things have gone well. We're going to have a relationship. We'll get done what we need this year. He's been real dedicated this summer. He'll be a captain, I don't know who will be a co-captain with him.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Real
  • Done
  • Relationship

• I think the guys are all geared up. I think we understood where we all went wrong in Melbourne and we are working at it. We've got a couple of new faces, a new captain, and I think it is more of your natural ability comes out in the Test arena rather than the one-day arena.

  

  Brian Lara
  • Captain
  • Melbourne
  • Test arena

• The Christian world, I discovered, was like the captain and crew of a vessel on the ocean without a compass, and tossed to and fro whithersoever the wind listed to blow them. When the light came to me, I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness...

  

  Brigham Young
  • Ocean
  • Compass
  • Crew

• Who cares who's captain after the wings have fallen off.

  

  Scott McNealy
  • Wings
  • Captain

• I would have given him a lesser fine if it were not for that, but I stopped short of banning him for the last test. I have respect for the England captain and I expected the same from him

  

  Clive Lloyd
  • Respect
  • England
  • Fine

• I think the main thing is to give your best regardless of whether you're the captain or not.

  

  Thiago Silva
  • Best
  • Give
  • Captain

• Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks" "Yes, sir, of sharks and men.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Dead
  • Captain
  • Sharks

• As South Africans we put unnecessary pressure on our captain. I will meet certain players, inside the country and outside the country, and make sure that our captain becomes instrumental in making sure that we win Test matches.

  

  Allister Coetzee
  • Win
  • Captain
  • Matches

• I was a huge fan of the original Star Trek, and I'd never even dreamed that I would someday be captain of a starship...

  

  Scott Bakula
  • Fan
  • Dreamed
  • Captain

• I have felt very frustrated and I would have hoped that my influence in the dressing room might have lifted some of the weight off the shoulders of the captain and coach.

  

  Allan Donald
  • Influence
  • Coach
  • Captain

• I am the captain of my pain.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Pain
  • Captain

• One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity.

  

  Joseph Jacobs
  • Curiosity
  • Discovery
  • Captain

• She was the captain of her soul.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Soul
  • Captain

• I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Weird
  • Captain

• A soft Sea washed around the House A Sea of Summer Air And rose and fell the magic Planks That sailed without a care — For Captain was the Butterfly For Helmsman was the Bee And an entire universe For the delighted crew.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Sea
  • Butterfly
  • Captain

• I always thought that I played better when I was the captain. If you look at my record during the six years I was captain - except for a couple of series - I did very well.

  

  Mohammad Azharuddin
  • Couple
  • Thought
  • Record

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