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  • Judging from the way they sat and goggled at the drag on the stage it was obvious that they were indulging in delightful fantasies that brought to them substantial memories of the girls they had left behind in London or Manchester. As the Quartermaster Captain lisped after performing before a particularly rapt audience: 'I bet there were more standing pricks than snotty noses tonight'. Astonishingly, I suspect he was right. We probably helped to keep the home fires of passion burning.

    Girl   Memories   War  
  • The compass rose is nothing but a star with an infinite number of rays pointing in all directions.It is the one true and perfect symbol of the universe.And it is the one most accurate symbol of you.Spread your arms in an embrace, throw your head back, and prepare to receive and send coordinates of being. For, at last you know—you are the navigator, the captain, and the ship.

    Stars   Numbers   Perfect  
  • I am voice actor Roger Craig Smith. You may know me as Batman, Captain America, Sonic the Hedgehog, Ezio from Assassin's Creed, Transformers: RID, or narrator of “Say Yes To the Dress” (among many other things). AMA!

  • 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 (1932). “Free thyself”
  • Captain Carpenter rose up in his prime Put on his pistols and went riding out But had got wellnigh nowhere at that time Till he fell in with ladies in a rout.

    Women   Rose   Riding  
    Donald Davidson, William Yandell Elliott, Merrill Moore, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren (1928). “Fugitives: an anthology of verse”
  • What would you do if your country's welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain.

    "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, (p. 209), 2004.
  • I'm the crazy girly captain, Remember?

    Girly   Crazy   Captains  
    Eoin Colfer (2002). “Artemis fowl: the Arctic incident”
  • I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

  • I was a huge fan of the original Star Trek, and I'd never even dreamed that I would someday be captain of a starship...

    Stars   Captains   Fans  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

    Men   Sea   Justice  
    "The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women". Essay by Margaret Fuller, first published in The Dial Magazine, Volume IV, archive.vcu.edu. July 1843.
  • Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution.

    Long   Use   Captains  
  • Outside the Weirwall, Jack could hear the thud of bodies colliding and the cries of the wounded. It seemed like a lot of noise. Even given the fact that Ellen was involved. "Why'd she go out there?" Jack demanded. "Why didn't you stop her?" Brooks spat on the ground. "Have you ever tried to stop Captain Stephenson from anythin'?

    Body   Noise   Captains  
  • As you climb of the organizational ladder, you have to redefine your role in the value chain from player to captain to coach to manager, and for some, to owner. These are different roles and you won't be able to succeed as a manager when you're acting like a player.

    Source: bobmorris.biz
  • My favorite artists from comics were early ones like Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko who had a real heavy ink style. Captain America, co created by Jack Kirby, was a favorite of mine and I sometimes use an altered version of his costume on some of my characters.

    Real   Character   Artist  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.

    Roles   Captains  
  • Says Bargh: "We all hold dear idea that we´re the captain of our own sould, and we´re in charge, and it´s a very scary feeling when we are not. In fact, that´s what psychosis is - the feeling of detachment from reality and that you are not in control, and that´s a very frightening feeling for anyone."

  • Sacrfice," the captain said. "You made one. I made one. We all made them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.

  • Let me introduce myself. My name is, uh, Kangaroo... Kangaroo - Captain Kangaroo ... I'm the keeper here of the Treasure House.

    Names   House   Kangaroos  
    "Fictional character: Captain Kangaroo". TV Series "Captain Kangaroo", October 3, 1955.
  • A life without an objective is much like a ship at sea with no port in mind. It drifts with the waves or storms, or with the whim of the captain. They are tempted to ask, amidst the battles of life, "Is the struggle worth-while?" That attitude lessens the joy of living. They who say that there is no purpose in life are not unhappy, but become dangerous to themselves and others, for they have no safe guide for their actions. Indeed, life has not objective save physical satisfactions, it is empty and valueless.

    Attitude   Struggle   Sea  
  • It's really a pity that there are observers who view political events like comic strips. There has to be a Zorro, there has to be a star. No, the problem of Upper Volta is more serious than that. It was a grave mistake to have looked for a man, a star, at all costs, to the point of creating one, that is, to the point of attributing the ownership of the event to captain Sankara, who must have been the brains, etc.

    Stars   Mistake   Men  
  • I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.

  • I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.

    Food   Home   Vegetables  
    Aristophanes, Douglass Parker (1969). “Four Comedies: Lysistrata; The Acharnians; The Congresswomen, Translated by Douglass Parker. The Frogs, Translated by Richmond Lattimore”, p.44, University of Michigan Press
  • The young woman who brought me acquainted with Captain Murderer had a fiendish enjoyment of my terrors, and used to begin, I remember - as a sort of introductory overture - by clawing the air with both hands, and uttering a long low hollow groan. So acutely did I suffer from this ceremony in combination with this infernal Captain, that I sometimes used to plead I thought I was hardly strong enough and old enough to hear the story again just yet.

    Strong   Air   Hands  
    Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: The Uncommercial Traveller”, p.148, Cosimo, Inc.
  • You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.

  • It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even have a boat.

  • Being Captain No-Fun really is no fun

    Fun   Captains  
  • Who cares who's captain after the wings have fallen off.

  • I think the number one public-relations blunder Osama has made is that he lives in a cave-fortress and if there's one thing we've learned from it's that you can't trust a guy who lives in a cave-fortress -- Lex Luther, Captain Nemo, Dr. Evil. I'm telling you the list goes on.

    Thinking   Numbers   Evil  
  • 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.

    Party   Rain   Cities  
    Joshua Slocum (2005). “Sailing Alone around the World”, p.95, Shambhala Publications
  • Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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