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)

    “In art economy is always beauty.”
    —Henry James (1843–1916)

    “How much more interesting an event is that man’s supper who has just been forth in the snow to hunt, nay, you might say, steal, the fuel to cook it with! His bread and meat are sweet.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)