Quotes of: Captain Keyword

Rose Sayer: Who do you think you are ordering me about? Charlie Allnut: I'm the captain, that's what!

The African Queen

The captains of England and Australia can barely exchange pleasantries these days without a body-language expert immediately declaiming on the angle of their handshakes.

Love

My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.

Walter Mosley

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

Lucy gripped her chilled glass of orange and raspberry juice. When Rebecca talked about Austen, she’d mostly mentioned Mr. Darcy or Mr. Knightley. She hadn’t really thought of the doe-eyed, pale-skinned heroines. On the screen, Anne Elliot walked...

Persuasion, Captain Wentworth and Cracklin' Cornbread

Thank you. There were three of us kids, all right together. I’m the oldest, she was the knee-baby, and my brother Henry came last. Funny, I miss her all the time, but I miss her most when I’m reading Austen. We’d been fans since we were in the ...

Persuasion, Captain Wentworth and Cracklin' Cornbread

What does it mean to be the master of your own soul, the captain of your own mind? It means that you keep the final say on what you think, feel and do. No one fearful thought can overtake you, no one doubtful feeling can overthrow you from your path,...

C. JoyBell C.

My death..I mean..will it be quick,and with dignity? How will i know when the end is coming?" "When you vomit blood,sir," Tao Chi'en said sadly. That happened three weeks later,in the middle of Pacific,in the privacy of the captain's cabin. As soon a...

Isabel Allende

[Picard puts his hand on the Phoenix] Captain Jean-Luc Picard: It's a boyhood fantasy... I must have seen this ship hundreds of times in the Smithsonian but I was never able to touch it. Lieutenant Commander Data: Sir, does tactile contact alter your...

Star Trek: First Contact

Captain Miller: Get your gear. Let's go. [Reiben stays put] Sergeant Horvath: You heard him, gear up. Your captain just gave you an order. Private Reiben: Yeah, like the one he gave to take this machine gun. That was a real doosey, wasn't it? [walks ...

Saving Private Ryan

[Black Widow is flying a Quinjet, while a maskless Captain America and helmetless Iron Man stand in the back keeping an eye on Loki] Steve Rogers: I don't like it. Tony Stark: What? Rock of Ages giving up so easily? Steve Rogers: I don't remember it ...

The Avengers

Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck." [ ]

Collected Stories of Guy De Maupassant

To dream of afar, to chase a star, to believe in Captain Hook. To dance with bears and have no cares, this is the magic of a book.

The Case of Jack the Nipper

Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.

The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Not a week after Annie put her foot in Mrs. Huffmaster's duff, the Captain upped and laid down the date.

The Good Lord Bird

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.

William Hull

Captain Miller quotes Pablo Neruda to Ruby: 'As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.

The Art of Arranging Flowers

Author describes that a failed sea captain, "vacillated miserably between self-recrimination and defensiveness.

Jefferson's War: America's First War on Terror 1801-1805

What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?" "Everything, since he has a command and I have not.

Master and Commander

The newly-minted captain admits the irony between the gold on his shoulders and the lack of gold in his pockets.

Master and Commander

This is Leo. I'm the... What's my title? Am I like, admiral, or captain, or..." "Repair boy." "Very funny, Piper.

The Son of Neptune