Quotes from Richard Phillips

I tell my kids, 'Don't do well in school, and you, too, can end up at sea.'

We really owe it to the military for what they do day in and day out that we never even hear about.

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

I don't think a lot of people realized that piracy is out there, and it's not a Disney-esque or Johnny Depp-esque type of thing.

These pirates are evolving, and we must stay with the curve and evolve with them to stop these incidents from happening.

Many people are worried about my mental health. But as I've said many times, we're stronger than we think we are.

'Interview' created indelible images of Pop Art that arrived on people's doorsteps every month.

A fresh lightning tree sprouted in the distance as Mother Nature painted the sky in rapid strokes, strobed the results, and then erased her magnificent creation, leaving its after-image burned into Rolf's retinas. So beautiful. So fleeting. Like life itself.

It was like the engineer had broken some code of the sea that said you must assist pirates in taking over your ship.

This world will try to beat you down. Only laughter can counteract that. Laughter is ammunition. Resupply often.

Your journey will proceed faster with a brief delay.' In other words, don't go off half-cocked, but don't wait until the other fellow shoots you either." A

Dark echo chambers did that to you, squeezed those suppressed childhood nightmares from under your bed into your present.

World War II acronym, SNAFU. Situation normal, all fucked up.

That which you don't understand, you fear. That which you fear, you hate.

Sometimes life drives you to do entirely new things, things you never believed you could do.

Gilbert McFarland was tall and slender, with brown eyes and a mouth upturned in a perpetual smile. His thick brown hair was hidden under the old floppy fishing hat he always wore, which sported an assortment of hand-tied flies and a button that proclaimed ONE FISH, TWO FISH, RED FISH, BLUE FISH...

Then, as he pulled her supple body atop him,

the couple's low moans increased in pace and intensity.

In that world, the line between friends and enemies was loosely drawn based only on your current interest.

wished he were better at this tact shit. "Mrs. Riles, I came to talk about your husband.

Amateurs beat the bush, seeking to frighten hiding game into the open. Even when this tactic worked, the amateur found himself poorly prepared and poorly positioned for the kill shot. The professional studied his prey, learned its patterns, and positioned

The big problem was subvocalization, or the sounding out of words in his mind as he read them. He couldn't seem to squelch the need to hear the words as he read.

Dear Lord, The Ripper walks the earth.

Faraday's principle of induction,