Captain James Cook

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

    I think there’s a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.
    Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. Captain Shepard (Kenneth More)

    True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
    —William James (1842–1910)

    I love it, I love it; and who shall dare
    To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?
    —Eliza Cook (1818–1889)