“Gazzy: Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R.”
James Patterson (1947) American author
Source: School's Out—Forever
Memories of President Lincoln. O Captain! my Captain!
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Gazzy: Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R.”
James Patterson (1947) American author
Source: School's Out—Forever
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
"The Fall" (1975), trans. Czesław Miłosz and Lillian Vallee
Hymn of the Pearl (1981)
“Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.”
Guy De Maupassant book Sur l'eau
Variant translation: Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
Sur l’eau (1888)
“Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle?
He was all for love, and a little for the bottle.”
Charles Dibdin (1745–1814) British musician, songwriter, dramatist, novelist and actor
Captain Wattle and Miss Roe.
“We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Source: The Crisis
Tawakkol Karman (1979) Yemeni journalist, politician, human rights activist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
2010s, Nobel Prize winner highlights women’s role in Arab Spring (2011)
Claude Lévi-Strauss book The Raw and the Cooked
The Raw and the Cooked : Introduction to a Science of Mythology (1975) Vol. I, [Le Cru et le Cuit, as translated by Doreen and John Weightman], p. 113
Yoo Byung-eun (1941–2014) South Korean religious leader and businessman
[Kim, Miyoung, http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/04/22/uk-korea-ship-company-idUKBREA3L0TS20140422, Company that owned ill-fated South Korea ferry has chequered past, Reuters, Uk.Reuters, 22 April 2014, 29 May 2014]
Yoo in a 1999 interview with a monthly magazine Chosun after filing for bankruptcy.
Thomas Jackson (1824–1863) Confederate general
Speaking to Captain John D. Imboden (24 July 1861), as quoted in Stonewall Jackson As Military Commander (2000) by John Selby, p. 25; sometimes quoted as "My religious beliefs teach me..."