Captain Quotes

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

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
Aldous Huxley

Soul, Cannot, Fate

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Thomas Aquinas

Keep, Forever, Aim

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
George Santayana

Positive, War, Soldier

Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.
William Shatner

Time, Long, Pleasure

When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
Dick Gregory

Lost, Down, Why

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
Charles Baudelaire

Sleep, Evening, Prayer

One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.
William Shatner

Advice, Able, Ask

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley

Soul, Fate, Matters

I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley

Soul, Fate, Master

I'd love to see T'he Avengers' with Robert Downey, Jr. playing Loki and Clark Gregg playing 'Thor' and I play Captain America.
Tom Hiddleston

Love, America, Play

I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
Oliver Cromwell

Nothing, Else, Rather

The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.
Mike Pence

Government, Today, Strong

I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
Ted Turner

Father, Might, Movement

In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.
Thomas Frank

Last, Culture, Movie

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 destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

Romantic, Football, Night

I'm like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port.
Henrique Capriles Radonski

Woman, Ship, Port

I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
Theodore Bikel

Role, Created, Von

We stay as a team. I might be England captain, but that doesn't mean I get treated differently.
David Beckham

Mean, Team, Might

I'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don't have to be captain, but I do want to play on a winning team.
Jane Pauley

Good, Winning, Play

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 my permission to sit on the captain's chair.
Patrick Stewart

Time, Different, Two

I've had lots of things that didn't work out, like TV shows. You learn a lot through mistakes - I learned that you have to be the captain of your ship. Actually, I own my ship.
Pamela Anderson

Work, Mistakes, Through

When I was eight or nine, I wrote a new version of 'Peter Pan' for the school play. They didn't use it - I imagine it was unperformable - but as recompense for not doing my script, I was offered any role, and instinctively went for Captain Hook. I came on trying to be terrifying, but everyone laughed at me.
Arthur Smith

School, Trying, Play

Every team that I've played on, I've either been the captain or co-captain.
Julius Erving

Team, Either, Played

Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.
George Farquhar

Good, Name, Travelling

I've always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better than captain of a space ship? I get to ride horses, shoot guns, have adventures.
Nathan Fillion

Movies, Space, Guns

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.
Horatio Nelson

Enemy, Wrong, Places

I always thought that the badge a cop has was more like the shield that Captain America has. It's an obvious sign of good and something you'll protect other people with, but it will also protect you.
Judd Nelson

Good, Thought, America

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 coming to Hollywood to sit around.
Patrick Stewart

Around, Interested, Coming

One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.
Patrick Stewart

Nothing, Black, Said

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