Captain Macmillan Quotes & Sayings

I feel like I'm one of the happiest people I know. — Hope Davis

You used to say a man knows things and when he stops knwing things he's like anybody else, and the thing is to get power before he stops knowing things. — F Scott Fitzgerald

You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself. — Bertolt Brecht

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile. — Earl Nightingale

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it. — James Tobin

Normally when you're promoting something a lot, sometimes you get tired. — Justin Theroux

Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science. — Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes even doing the right thing will leave you with scars. But beauty comes from ashes, too. And I know that to be true. — Natalie Lloyd

You meet a wizard in downtown Chicago. The wizard tells you he can make you more attractive if you pay him money. When you ask how this process works, the wizard points to a random person on the street. You look at this random stranger. The wizard says, "I will now make them a dollar more attractive." He waves his magic wand. Ostensibly, this person does not change at all; as far you can tell, nothing is different. But - somehow - this person is suddenly more appealing. The tangible difference is invisible to the naked eye, but you can't deny that this person is vaguely sexier. This wizard has a weird rule, though - you can only pay him once. You can't keep giving him money until you're satisfied. You can only pay him one lump sum up front. How much cash do you give the wizard? — Chuck Klosterman

I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits. — Ben Bradlee

Judicial excellence means that a Supreme Court justice must have a sense of the values from which our core of our political- economic system goes. In other words, we should not approve any nominee whose extreme judicial philosophy would undermine rights and liberties relied upon by all Americans. — Herb Kohl

We do not become less needy, less dependent when we pray; we become more needy, more dependent, which is to say, more human. — Eugene H. Peterson

I went to college. Got a master's degree. Went to Quantico for training. Been chasing down bad guys."
She gave her grandmother a wry look. "You know, the usual girly stuff. — Kerrelyn Sparks

I come from a mixed background - my mom's black, my dad's white - and I traveled around the world. — Tia Mowry