Top 99 Ship's Captain Quotes
#1. You couldn't pay for her hats,' her father, a ship's captain, had told her suitors by way of discouragement, and perhaps they had all been discouraged but my grandfather, an innocent from the Georgetown Divide who read books.
Joan Didion
#2. We had taken him for a Norwegian ship's captain and had come to his table to hear some more about seafaring, not about philosophy, from which, indeed, we had fled north from Central Europe.
Thomas Bernhard
#3. Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
Guy De Maupassant
#5. Gundar isn't so much a ship's captain as a reformed pirate and a heathen." [Evanlyn] looked apologetically at Gundar. "No offense, Gundar."
The skirl shrugged cheerfully. "None taken, little lady. It's a pretty fair description. Not sure about the reformed part," he added thoughtfully.
John Flanagan
#6. Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
[On Water]
Guy De Maupassant
#7. I don't wilt easily, and a director can't either. He's the captain of the ship and he's got to be in total control. He also has to have respect for the people he's working for. From being an actor and being on a set my whole life, I'm very comfortable there. And I'm not afraid.
Ricky Schroder
#8. The captain of HMS Terror often thought that he knew nothing about the future - other than that his ship and Erebus would never again steam or sail - but then he reminded himself of one certainty: when his store of whiskey was gone, Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier was going to blow his brains out.
Dan Simmons
#9. You are the captain of your own ship; don't let anyone else take the wheel.
Michael Josephson
#10. The captain is supposed to go down with the ship" . "unless the first mate knocks him out and throws him in a lifeboat
Neal Shusterman
#11. when God is the captain of your ship, your future looks a whole lot brighter than your past!
P.L. Wilson
#12. Look in Kego's defense he was only Nine and a half when he took command of the ship and she had been put way off course by her captain and you lot would all be dead if it wasn't for him.
Jenny Smith In The Navigator by Steve Merrick
Steve Merrick
#13. The captain doesn't think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship,
Bashar Al-Assad
#14. The Navy has a custom-if a ship runs aground, the captain is relieved regardless of who is responsible. That's how Abu Ghraib should be handled.
Rand Beers
#15. I need to gain a lot more experience. I think so much of being a director, other than the technical aspect and the artistry of it, is the confidence that you are, I think in many ways, you're the captain of the ship.
Josh Peck
#16. On this ship, my word is fucking law! Captain Josiah Trenchard. UWSS Might of Fortitude.
Jonathon Fletcher
#17. When you go into labor you see that you are not the captain of the ship. You are the ship. There is no captain. There are only the waves.
Karen Maezen Miller
#18. Who was it?" Jared asked. "I'll kill them."
"You are not inspiring me with a desire to give you a name, Captain Murderface of the good ship Unbalanced
Sarah Rees Brennan
#19. Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.
William Adams
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. In my experience, 'SNL' has Lorne Michaels, who is, you know, the captain of the ship and gives the show direction and a singular focus, whereas 'MadTV' - even in my 13 episodes there - had maybe one too many cooks and was a bit more chaotic creatively.
Taran Killam
#23. If you don't trust either the captain or the ship, there remains only one thing for safety: Trusting the storm!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#24. My biggest dream since I was a kid was to be the woman sneaking on the pirate ship dressed like a man, who was this great sword fighter, and the captain fell in love with her.
Maria Bello
#25. The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.
Blaise Pascal
#26. A captain should know the details of every position in his ship's company by working them with his own hands, stem to stern. It's the only way to be sure you know what each man needs from his captain in order to be able to perform his duty.
Jim Butcher
#27. A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.
Eugene Ionesco
#28. It was a far more terrifying idea to imagine how much control he really had over how his life turned out. Easier to believe that he was a gallant ship tossed by fate than to captain it himself.
He would steer it now, and if there were rocks near shore, so be it.
Maggie Stiefvater
#29. Captain James Cook's ship, The Endeavour, hit a coral outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef in 1770. Cook and his crew camped in what is now called Cooktown for nearly two months while making repairs. Then they sailed south, where Cook claimed the east coast of Australia as British territory.
Julie Murphy
#30. 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
#31. To me it's like, every time I'm a director, like today, you're the captain of the ship, so you better dress like it. You're the host of the party.
Mike Mills
#32. We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like they know how to sail but there is no captain and we are all only passengers aboard the same sinking ship.
Donal O'Callaghan
#33. When crew and captain understand each other to the core, It takes a gale and more than a gale to put their ship ashore; For the one will do what the other commands, although they are chilled to the bone; And both together can live through weather that neither could face alone. KIPLING
Lettie B. Cowman
#34. When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.
Rudyard Kipling
#35. When I got to college, when I finally fled the suffocation that I'd built around myself - because, to my father's credit, he'd never asked me to captain our plagued family's ship - it all collapsed.
Allison Winn Scotch
#36. What would you do if your country's welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain.
Fritz Sauckel
#37. You have a job?"
"Do you think I just fucking run this ship so I can call myself captain and get laid?"
"Well, no. I thought you were a criminal.
Pippa DaCosta
#39. FAR FROM THE WHARF, well across the bay and almost to the open sea, was a tangle of rocks so treacherous that no captain familiar with these waters would sail his ship there.
Dave Barry
#40. I am not the captain of my ship. My ship is out there, but I don't have my course. You never know in this business.
Jamie Farr
#41. We're all responsible. I'm the leader, the captain of the ship, and I have to take responsibility.
Alan Trammell
#42. If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Thomas Aquinas
#43. You are like the captain of a ship, and it is your job to tell the crew (your body and mind) what to do. If you don't, you will end up making one bad choice after another. If
John Paul Khoury
#44. You are the captain of your own ship; the more you act from that perspective, the better things will go for you.
David Allen
#45. Whether out of professional pique or some instinct of fear, the ship's mascot - a cat named Dowie, after Captain Turner's predecessor - fled the ship that night, for points unknown.
Erik Larson
#46. To live is to walk beside Death but never join hands. ~ Captain Buck "Slackeye" Roberts
Kai McCarthy
#47. No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.
Horatio Nelson
#48. 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
#49. When the storm brews and the waves swell, only an experienced captain can control the ship and save it.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#50. It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship. He sets the pace, the mood. If the director is quiet, the set is quiet. If the director is loud, then everybody has to be louder to be heard.
Eva Marie Saint
#51. The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew.
Patrick O'Brian
#52. My lord, I will tell you what the case was. I was coming up within a league of the Dutchman, and some of my men were making a mutiny about taking her, and my gunner told the people he could put the captain in a way to take the ship, and be safe.
William Kidd
#54. Since this used to be a Martian ship, I thought maybe you'd have reloads that would fit our racks." "Sure," Captain Tseng said without a moment's hesitation. "I'll have the destroyer Sally Ride pull alongside for munitions transfer.
James S.A. Corey
#55. A captain always knows where his ship is. It's like a psychic bond."
"If only we had a captain here.
Marissa Meyer
#56. A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.
Herman Melville
#57. Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.
Fritz Lang
#58. In her unworldly voice she thanked them for finally understanding her. She reminded me of a female pirate captain alone on the deck of her sinking ship.
Raymond Radiguet
#59. The ship was small, his cabin smaller, but the captain would not allow him abovedecks.
George R R Martin
#61. I pray that I am never so foolishly naive or roguishly pompous to think that I can be the captain of my own ship, for if God is not at the helm my ship will soon be at the bottom.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#62. No mother should outlive her children, and no captain should outlive his ship.
George R R Martin
#63. They say the captain goes down with the ship, so when the world ends, will God go down with it?
Fall Out Boy
#64. You're no kind of captain if you keep jumping ship.
Heidi Heilig
#65. That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain.
Way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good luck, 'til some idiot killed it. (to Inara) Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint.
Joss Whedon
#66. Who would be captain?" he said. "Uh, I would." "Oh, no, no no. Guess again." "You can't mutiny, we don't have a ship yet." "I'm planning ahead." I
Heidi Heilig
#67. To Strange's unnautical eye, it looked very much as if the ship had simply lain down and gone to sleep. He felt that if he had been the Captain he would have spoken to her sternly and made her get up again.
Susanna Clarke
#68. When you do a movie, it's like going on a journey. It's really like the director is the captain of the ship, and that energy, everybody feels.
Kellan Lutz
#69. She believed that people were captains of their own destiny. He agreed, as long as it was understood that every captain was destined to go down with the ship, and there wasn't a damned thing you could do about it.
Daryl Gregory
#70. God is at the helm even when you think your ship is sinking. Just keep trusting that the captain knows more about where you're heading than you do, and eventually you'll get where you need to be.
Kevin Alan Milne
#71. 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
#73. You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!
Robert Louis Stevenson
#74. All we have to do is preserve our personality, to live our own life, be captain of our own ship, and all will be well.
Edward Bach
#75. There was no hiding the fact that they were in a predicament, but there was no hesitation to mention failings that might reflect poorly on any department. That made it easier for the captain to assess the situation. He doubted a similar meeting aboard his own ship would have progressed as well,
Taylor Anderson
#76. Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.
Peter Ustinov
#77. A movie is kind of like being the captain of a ship, which is nice, but when I perform by myself it's just surfing on the water and nobody really knows what happens.
Jerry Seinfeld
#78. He glanced back. Two images became impressed in his memory. One was of a collapsible lifeboat slipping from the ship, still sheathed in its protective cover; the other, of Captain Turner in full dress uniform still on the bridge as the Lusitania began its final dive.
Erik Larson
#79. One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
Patricia Schroeder
#80. Skip your fancy talk, Captain Lord Blackthorn. If I do your bidding, and I'm still discussing that with the Almighty, it will only be to save my arse." Katie O'Reilly to Captain Lord Jack Blackthorn in "Titanic Rhapsody
Jina Bacarr
#81. It is as if we find ourselves on a ship in the middle of the ocean, with the captain making the point that we are free to leave.
Peter Cave
#82. You are like a captain navigating a ship ... You must give the right orders, thoughts and images to your subconscious which controls and governs all your experiences.
Joseph Murphy
#83. Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.
Joshua Slocum
#84. Mr. Bird flung his food away and leaped to his feet, glaring around at no one in particular. 'I am not a dog!' he shouted agrily, his gold earrings flashing in the firelight.
Tim Powers
#85. Sometimes a decision has to be made by a single individual, who has the authority to enforce it. That's why you need a captain. You can't run a ship by a committee - at least not all the time.
Arthur C. Clarke
#86. Gazzy: Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R.
James Patterson
#87. 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
#88. No!" she said adamantly. "The Captain doesn't leave his ship in enemy territory, damn it!
Mike Resnick
#89. Life is like a ship. There's people dancing on a ship.There's a lot of money on the ship, but I cannot integrate on the ship or get equality on the ship.And I never could. I'm just in the galley working and I never could get up to see the captain of the ship.
Muhammad Ali
#90. The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can't do anything about the tides.
Matthew Norman
#91. When I was the captain of a ship I never failed to bring my ship to port and I won't fail to bring Romania to safe harbor. The belief that the president no longer represents the people is false.
Traian Basescu
#92. I prefer to sail in a bad ship with a good captain rather than sail in a good ship with a bad captain.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#93. I'll always rather be in a ship that's got a captain that has some vision.
Susan Sarandon
#94. Some captains made no attempt to save the lives of merchant seamen; others went so far as to tow lifeboats towards land. One u-boat commander sent the captain of a torpedoed ship three bottles of wine to ease the long row ashore.
Erik Larson
#95. The injured captain, lying in the bow, was at this time buried in that profound dejection and indifference which comes, temporarily at least, to
even the bravest and most enduring when, willy nilly, the firm fails, the army loses, the ship goes down.
Stephen Crane
#96. It wasn't fair that my friends could stay at Captain Morgan's pirate ship party while I was drop-kicked into a basement with homeless people chanting the Serenity Prayer.
Sarah Hepola
#97. Your life is your ship and you are the captain. Choose your course, take the wheel firmly and get on your way.
Michael Josephson
#98. I'm obsessed with the Victorian era and the British Royal Navy ... I'd love to play a troubled sailor or captain or a boatman on a three masted ship.
Nick Offerman
#99. My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.
Joseph C. Lincoln
