Famous quotes containing the words michael, powell, captain and/or lansdorff:
“To tell you the truth, I’m relieved that the Van Ripers are not coming. He’s telling the same jokes he told twenty years ago and she dyes her hair. I think it’s a shrimp pink now.”
—Adele Comandini, and Edward Sutherland. Michael O’Brien (Charles Winninger)
“No battle is worth fighting except the last one.”
—J. Enoch Powell (b. 1912)
“The captain sat in a commodore’s hat
And dined in a royal way
On toasted pigs and pickles and figs
And gummery bread each day.”
—Charles Edward Carryl (1841–1920)
“Every commander is alone.”
—Michael Powell. Captain Lansdorff (Peter Finch)