Captain Sir Richard

Famous quotes containing the words captain, sir and/or richard:

    If something isn’t saved, then what’s it all for?
    —Sydney Pollack. Captain Beckman (Patrick O’Neal)

    Haf owre, haf owre to Aberdour,
    It’s fiftie fadom deip,
    And thair lies guid Sir Patrick Spence,
    Wi the Scots lords at his feit.
    —Unknown. Sir Patrick Spens (l. 41–44)

    I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of the revered image and gave the American virtue of irreverence and skepticism back to the people.
    William Burroughs (b. 1914)