House Captain Quotes

#1. This is Miss Suzy's house", said the captain, drawing his sword. "Will you go peaceably, or must we fight?

Miriam Young

#2. Cedric Diggory was an extremely handsome boy of around seventeen. He was Captain and Seeker of the Hufflepuff House Quidditch team at Hogwarts.

J.K. Rowling

#3. If to know is to work, then knowledge is the fruit of our own unaided effort and activity; then knowledge includes nothing which is not due to the effort of man, and there is nothing gratuitous about it, nothing "inspired", nothing "given" about it.

Josef Pieper

#4. I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.

Captain Beefheart

#5. In Medford, I awaked the Captain of the Minute Men; & after that, I alarmed almost every house, till I got to Lexington.

Paul Revere

#6. If I have food in the house and I'm laying in bed, I go, 'I bet that Captain Crunch is lonely in the cupboard.'

Louie Anderson

#7. Let me introduce myself. My name is, uh, Kangaroo ... Kangaroo - Captain Kangaroo ... I'm the keeper here of the Treasure House.

Bob Keeshan

#8. Quote from Ranger Captain David Craig, character in Voice in the Wilderness, page 187:
"If the House and the Senate had the guts to stick to it [Constitution], and we could trust SCOTUS to uphold it, we wouldn't be in this mess.

H.L. Wegley

#9. Captain," said the squire, "the house is quite invisible from the ship. It must be the flag they are aiming at. Would it not be wiser to take it in?"
"Strike my colours!" cried the captain, "No sir, not I"...

Robert Louis Stevenson

#10. People look at Marvel movies as epic in scope, but if you look back at the comics, you realise that Marvel heroes were often a reaction to the square-jawed DC characters like Superman, who were flawless and beyond reproach.

Jon Favreau

#11. Thank you," I said in relief. "Fuck you, douche," he replied before hanging up.

Kelli Jean

#12. 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

#13. There isn't an amount of money you could offer me to do reality TV. I would rather get my job back on the building site. Or I could own a construction business. Maybe I could retire to my house in Long Island and take up painting, like Captain Beefheart. A crazy recluse: I like that idea.

Dave Gahan

#14. The captain would ... turn off the conversation, like a consummate man of the world, to some topic of general interest, such as the Opera, the Prince's last ball at Carlton House, or the weather - that blessing to society.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#15. Love is the force that leaves you colorless

Ovid

#16. You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.

Captain Beefheart

#17. Frankly, most governments are used to lying to each other - to a degree that most people would find shocking. Part of diplomacy is the art of strategic lying.

Jonathan Turley

#18. I think liberals have to come to terms with the market and embrace market mechanisms as the only way to run a society that produces widespread material well-being and respects individual rights and liberties.

Douglas Massey

#19. In spite of the air of fablethe public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded that the facts of my narrative would prove of such a nature as to carry with them sufficient evidence of their own authenticity.

Edgar Allan Poe