#captain

Smee, you are a supreme idjit." "Aye, Cap'n. ↗

— Ridley Pearson

#humor #obedience #smee #humor

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. ↗

— Jane Austen

#captain-wentworth #love #death

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

— Johnny Depp

#i #i do #just #pretend #weird

I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945. ↗

— Eli Wallach

#after #army #captain #come #end

And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

#captain #city #cup #davis #davis cup

He is a very positive captain; he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game. ↗

— David Gower

#advantage #been #captain #game #get

There can be only one Captain to a ship. ↗

— Thomas John Barnardo

#only #ship

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

#both #bridge #captain #chair #chairman

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

#captain #chair #company #day #england

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

#crime #dangerous #delight #merit #positive