Captain James Cook

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

    “When you’re dealing with monkeys, you’ve got to expect some wrenches.”
    —Alvah Bessie, Ranald MacDougall, and Lester Cole. Raoul Walsh. Captain Nelson, Objective Burma, giving a subaltern a mission (1945)

    “Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means the affirmation of an eternal moral order and the letting loose of hope.”
    —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)