Named Captain

Famous quotes containing the words named and/or captain:

    “Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly “forgot it” and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet.”
    —W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)

    “Take it easy, soldier. Everybody gets a little “noivous” in the “soivice.””
    —Alvah Bessie, Ranald MacDougall, and Lester Cole. Raoul Walsh. Captain Nelson (Errol Flynn)