Captain James Cook

Famous quotes containing the words captain, james and/or cook:

    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)

    Better risk loss of truth than chance of error—that is your faith-vetoer’s exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.
    —William James (1842–1910)

    The madness of love can always be suspended—to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)