The Captain Goes Down Quotes

#1. A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship. - Author: Eugene Ionesco

#2. Oh, that's great. That way, when things have quieted down, and we come up for air, or money, or re-supply, we'll get a nice explosive package from him that says "so nice to see you again" in a way that only multi-megaton yields can. - Author: Howard Tayler

#3. I was captain of the netball team, captain of the hockey team and I did my sprinting, but I would push myself. That's why yoga is really good for me because it actually slows me down and finds some sort of space for me. - Author: Jayne Middlemiss

#4. When Captain Moussa Dadis Camara came to power, too many thought he would hold to his promise to stand down, introduce democratic elections and restore the rule of law. - Author: Mo Ibrahim

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

#6. 'The Glades' is a light cop procedural about a cop from Chicago who got shot in the bum by his captain and made a change down to Florida, so he's a bit of a fish out of water. - Author: Matt Passmore

#7. One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard. - Author: Honore De Balzac

#8. The captain is supposed to go down with the ship" . "unless the first mate knocks him out and throws him in a lifeboat - Author: Neal Shusterman

#9. was as charged as if a storm were brewing. It was a storm, she told herself, and one her father had seen gathering for years. Still, it humbled her to watch an old captain like Tenira announce that he would call the first bolt down on himself. - Author: Robin Hobb

#10. Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down. - Author: Peter Ustinov

#11. I want to know what the hell made you think this was your job to do? Who made YOU the moral compass of us? How could you lay down with the people you've laid down with?? Tell me, 'Director Stark', was it worth it??

Was it WORTH it?!

TELL ME! - Author: Brian Michael Bendis

#12. 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. - Author: Cesare Pavese

#13. 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. - Author: Stephen Crane

#14. There's no telling how far down it goes," the captain says, the left side of his mustache twitching like the tail of a rat. "Fall into that unknowable abyss, and you'll be counting the days before you reach bottom. - Author: Neal Shusterman

#15. Ye are a scoundrel, a black-hearted robber and a rogue,' Stubble said cheerily to the grumbling captain. It was his usual way of haggling, and he'd beaten down the riverman to a decent price for conveying himself and Anvar to Lankarn. - Author: Ian Livingstone

#16. 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. - Author: Joss Whedon

#17. Technically, you don't pay me.
And technically, most of what I do is "think."
I ... rrr. ummm.
And when you get right down to it, I'm better at it than you are.
-Ennesby & Captain Tagon - Author: Howard Tayler

#18. They say the captain goes down with the ship, so when the world ends, will God go down with it? - Author: Fall Out Boy