Captain Pellew Quotes & Sayings

For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting. — Laura Linney

Who's they?" He wanted to know. "Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?"
"Every one of them," Yossarian told him.
"Every one of whom?"
"Every one of whom do you think?"
"I haven't any idea."
"Then how do you know they aren't?"
"Because ... " Clevinger sputtered, and turned speechless with frustration.
Clevinger really thought he was right, but Yossarian had proof, because strangers he didn't know shot at him with cannons every time he flew up into the air to drop bombs on them, and it wasn't funny at all. — Joseph Heller

It's noble to be skilled, but ultimately people pay for solutions your skills can provide not the skills you possess — Bernard Kelvin Clive

I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish. — Jonathan Frakes

And then, 'Why is a raven like a writing desk?' Those things just became so important to the character. You realize that the more you read it, if I read the book again today, I'd find 100 other things that I missed last time. It's a constantly changing book. — Johnny Depp

My heart leaves, hitchhikes right out of my body, heads north, catches a ferry across the Bering Sea and plants itself in Siberia with the polar bears and ibex and long-horned goats until it turns into a teeny-tiny glacier.
Because I imagined it. — Jandy Nelson

If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush. — Jil Sander

Bronwen came over plenty of Saturdays after that, but I was always shy of her. I think I must have fallen in love with Bronwen even then and I must have been in love with her all my life since. It is silly to think a child could fall in love. If you think about it like that, mind. But I am the child that was, and nobody knows how I feel, except only me. And I think I fell in love with Bronwen that Saturday on the Hill.
Still, that is past. — Richard Llewellyn

Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts. — Gordon B. Hinckley

You wait a bit, wait a bit," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, smiling and touching his hand. "I've told you what I know, and I repeat that in this delicate and tender matter, as far as one can conjecture, I believe the chances are in your favor. — Leo Tolstoy

I am a free person.
I am free to dream.
I am free to pursue my dreams.
I am free to love.
I am free to serve mankind. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Into the cultural and technological system of the modern world, the patriotic spirit fits like dust in the eyes and sand in the bearings. Its net contribution to the outcome is obscuration, distrust, and retardation at every point where it touches the fortunes of modern mankind. — Thorstein Veblen