Famous quotes containing the words michael, powell, captain and/or lansdorff:
“I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one’s own vomit.”
—J. Enoch Powell (b. 1912)
“Stay on the beach. The natives over there are cannibals. They eat liars with the same enthusiasm as they eat honest men.”
—Earl Felton, and Richard Fleischer. Captain Nemo (James Mason)
“I don’t like sending ships to the bottom. What sailor does?”
—Screenwriter. Michael Powell. Captain Lansdorff (Peter Finch)