Home / Topics / Skipper Quotes

Skipper Quotes

Browse 18 quotes about Skipper.

Skipper Quotes

“Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.”

Loneliness Traditional Luxury Privacy Skipper

Book:Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

Source: Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

“Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.”

Sometimes Seasons Ships Drivers Grounded Carts Monsoons Skipper

Book:The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction

Source: The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction

“Not scoring one for the whole calendar year last year was a bit disappointing but I didn't really feel any pressure to get my first one as skipper,.”

Feels Years Firsts Whole Lasts Bits Pressure Last Year Disappointing Calendars Skipper

Author:Ricky Ponting

“Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.”

Way Running Rocks Providence Skipper

Book:Heartbreak House

Source: Heartbreak House

“When I put out to sea, I do not offer advice to the skipper about the management of the ship.”

Sea Advice Offers Management Ships Delegation Skipper

Book:The Cobra Candlestick

Source: The Cobra Candlestick

“Media were never allowed into an Australian dressing room until I became skipper. I changed that and invited them in at the close of play each day, thereby confirming for many administrators they had appointed a madman as captain.”

Play Rooms Media Changed Each Day Captains Invited Dressings Australian Madmen Commentators Administrators Dressing Rooms Skipper

Author:Richie Benaud

“We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers of the hands, who kept a book-shop over against the University building-had been debauched to play the part of publishers. We four were to be conjuct editors and, what was the main point of the concern, to print our own works; while, by every rule of arithmetic-that flatterer of credulity-the adventure must succeed and bring great profit. Well, well: it was a bright vision.”

Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

“It's not how you look, it's how you feel in the dark”

Feels Looks Funny Dark How You Feel Skipper

Author:Paula Wall

“I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it's not how you look; it's how you perform.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Skipper

Author:Neil Armstrong

“Rock star do not jump!" The launch was cutting sharply, its skipper calling out a phrase that bore no relationship to the English language as Amy knew it. "Rock star in a hurry!" Nellie replied, one foot on the boat's gunwale.”

Language Stars Cutting Feet Rocks Calling Boat Phrases Bores English Language Rock Star Amy Skipper

Book:The 39 Clues #7: The Viper's Nest

Source: The 39 Clues #7: The Viper's Nest

“He may be a malevolent sorcerer, but Tiny Cooper is his own goddamned man, and if he wants to be a gigantic skipper, then that's his right as a huge American.”

Ifs Men Want May Huge Tiny Skipper

Author:John Green

“I'm a poetry-skipper myself. I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country - make it any other two persons. This doesn't mean that I hate poetry. I don't feel that strongly about it. It only means that those who wish to communicate with me by means of the written word must do so in prose.”

Feels Mean Persons Two Country Age Poetry Hate Wish Written Weight I Hate Communicate Prose Boast Written Word Skipper

Author:Will Cuppy

“Fact: The new '90210' is cooler than the old '90210.' It's the lithe, streamlined Skipper to the elder series' venerable Barbie. Gone are the traditional parents - they've been replaced by a hipster mom n' pop who get busted necking in the car.”

Facts Parent Gone Car Mom Series Pops Traditional Replaced Elders Hipster Barbie Busted Skipper

Author:Diablo Cody

“A small craft in the ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. The skipper's brain is the vessel's brain and he must give up his soul to her, regardless of his own feelings or inclinations.”

Giving Should Soul Feelings Brain Giving Up Ocean Crafts Aviation Dictatorship Inclination Vessel Benevolent Skipper

Book:One Hand for Yourself, One for the Ship: The Essentials of Single-Handed Sailing

Source: One Hand for Yourself, One for the Ship: The Essentials of Single-Handed Sailing

“John Terry is the perfect skipper. It's obvious Chelsea means everything to him. When he makes those last ditch blocks, team-mates can't help but be inspired.”

Mean Helping Lasts Perfect Team Inspired Obvious Block Mates Be Inspired Chelsea Team Mate Skipper

Author:Kasey Keller

“In a way, certain sections of the media always wanted to knock me because I had captained my country and been skipper at Old Trafford. It was all a bit odd really.”

Way Country Wanted Certain Bits Media Odd Sections Skipper

Author:Bryan Robson

“An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.”

Sea Angry Unhappy Crew Sailor Skipper

Book:Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King

Source: Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King

“I still try to keep my eyes open. I'm always on the lookout for antlion traps in sandy soil, monarch pupae near milkweed, skipper larvae in locust leaves. These things are utterly common, and I've not seen one”

Trying Stills Eye Common Soil Traps Monarchs Sandy Skipper Milkweed

Book:PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK