#captain

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

#came #captain #city #commander #day

The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence. ↗

— Ahmet Zappa

#bill #came #captain #communicate #goods

Was this love in its purest form, unrequited yet all-consuming and unselfish? ↗

— Jacqueline Patricks

#dreams-of-the-queen #love #dreams

The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can't do anything about the tides. ↗

— Matthew Norman

#leaders #leadership #politician #politics #ship

(On Captain Britain) "Every British person thinks he's got the same accent as them. The air around him is warm like a summer meadow. He smells of honey. I've seen grown men weep at the sight of him. ↗

— Paul Cornell

#men

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#captain #forever #highest #his #keep

I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall! ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#captained #carnegie #carnegie hall #come #cricket

We stay as a team. I might be England captain, but that doesn't mean I get treated differently. ↗

— David Beckham

#differently #england #get #i #mean

I created the role of Captain Von Trapp. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#created #i #role #von

I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool. ↗

— Jerry Doyle

#acting #air #air force #becoming #before