O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is near, the bells I hear The people all exulting While follow eyes, the steady keel The vessel grim and daring But Heart! Heart! Heart! O the bleeding drops of red Where on the deck my captain lies Fallen cold and dead.
— Walt Whitman
Inspiring Captain Of The Ship quotations
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored.
We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.
The death of a man is like the fall of a mighty nation That had valiant armies, captains, and prophets, And wealthy ports and ships all over the seas.
Since you are not a prophet, follow the way taught by prophets.
Since you are not a king, be a loyal subject to The King. Since you are not a captain, do not take the helm of the ship. Since you do not possess every skill, have partners in your business. Be as pliant as dough in the hands of others, that you may rise well.
Fans have been very important in my career.
Even though I'm just doing me and doing my thing, they're the captains of this ship.
No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.
The Navy has a custom-if a ship runs aground, the captain is relieved regardless of who is responsible. That's how Abu Ghraib should be handled.
It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.
The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.
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.
Don't be afraid of the storms; be afraid of the ship and the captain! Forget about the outside factors, what matters is the internal power!
We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most.
O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won
The direction of all economic affairs is in the market society a task of the entrepreneurs. Theirs is the control of production. They are at the helm and steer the ship. A superficial observer would believe that they are supreme. But they are not. They are bound to obey unconditionally the captain's orders.
Cyrus Pembridge, the Never Land’s captain, was widely regarded as the most incompetent man to comman a ship since the formation of water. “Who in the name of common sense would put to sea on that ship with that man in charge?” wondered Mack. “Well,” Alf answered, “we are.” “True,” Mack said.
Gazzy: "Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R.
We're all responsible. I'm the leader, the captain of the ship, and I have to take responsibility.
A writer is very much like the captain on a star ship facing the unknown.
When you face the blank page and you have no idea where you're going. It can be terrifying, but it can also be the adventure of a lifetime.
Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem.
A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston with a cargo of wool. It grosses 200 tons. It is bound for Le Havre. The mainmast is broken, the cabin boy is on deck, there are 12 passengers aboard, the wind is blowing East-North-East, the clock points to a quarter past three in the afternoon. It is the month of May. How old is the captain?
Life is like a ship. There's people dancing on a ship.There's a lot of money on the ship, but I cannot integrate on the ship or get equality on the ship.And I never could. I'm just in the galley working and I never could get up to see the captain of the ship.
When you do a movie, it's like going on a journey.
It's really like the director is the captain of the ship, and that energy, everybody feels.
You are the captain of your own ship; don't let anyone else take the wheel.
The Universe is a big ship and its captain is the Laws of Physics! The bad news is that there seems to be no safe harbour to dock and no lifeboats if we sink!
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.
The doctors take the bodily evidence as the disease.
. . . disease is itself an impudent opinion. He throws off the feelings of the sick and imparts to them his own which are perfect health, and his explanation destroys their feelings or disease. . . . He is like a captain who knows his business and feels confident in a storm, and his confidence sustains the crew and ship when both would be lost if the captain should give way to his fears.
It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship.
He sets the pace, the mood. If the director is quiet, the set is quiet. If the director is loud, then everybody has to be louder to be heard.
My lord, I will tell you what the case was.
I was coming up within a league of the Dutchman, and some of my men were making a mutiny about taking her, and my gunner told the people he could put the captain in a way to take the ship, and be safe.
When I was the captain of a ship I never failed to bring my ship to port and I won't fail to bring Romania to safe harbor. The belief that the president no longer represents the people is false.
In the end, you as a director, of course, are the captain on the ship.
You have to say, "Well, we're sailing to the left and not to the right." But, you always have to listen to everyone, because I'm not always right and other people have great ideas, too. I think that makes great moviemaking.
Be the captain of your ship. Breathe and be grateful.
Somebody can be the captain of the ship, which allows you to make big mistakes.
I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains.
The song was about a ship that broke in half and sank.
When I was very young, one of my favourite books was Captain's Courageous and I suppose one of the reasons I loved it, it was a life I knew I should have had, learning all the different bits of the ship and learning to catch fish and rig sails and to -all the things that I never learned and I never learned the discipline, but I hungered after it.
I am not the captain of my ship. My ship is out there, but I don't have my course. You never know in this business.