Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore.

- Sterling Hayden

I don't think I'll have to kill her. Just slap that pretty face into hamburger meat, that's all.

- Sterling Hayden

A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.

- Sterling Hayden

Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.

- Sterling Hayden