Captain James Cook

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

    They have to prove their superiority every day. It’s their one tremendous weakness.
    Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. Captain Shepard (Kenneth More)

    Ideas are so much flat psychological surface unless some mirrored matter gives them cognitive lustre. This is why as a pragmatist I have so carefully posited ‘reality’ ab initio, and why throughout my whole discussion, I remain an epistemologist realist.
    —William James (1842–1910)

    Though language forms the preacher,
    ‘Tis “good works” make the man.
    —Eliza Cook (1818–1889)