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)

    “Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.”
    —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

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