Captain James Cook

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

    It’s simple: either you have discipline or you haven’t.
    Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. Captain Shepard (Kenneth More)

    The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stood there from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.
    —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)