Quotes from Richard Phillips

scrambled to respond. Ms. Gorsky's meaty hand

His eyes devoured the curves of her form as she dressed.

Every basketball wimp needs a lesson, and you seem to think you're somewhere above your true station in life.

This world will try to beat you down. Laughter is ammunition. Resupply often.'

Morning plus coffee equals comfort, or some nonsensical equation.

the only thing you can be sure of in this life is that sooner or later everything goes wrong.

The great American government, with its spirit of free enterprise, had imposed communism on the Native Peoples, and like the system the Bolsheviks had imposed on the Soviet Union, it had yielded the same harvest. The once-proud native people learned to accept government handouts, then to rely upon them. The subsequent loss of pride, self-reliance, and initiative led inevitably to the current plague of alcoholism, obesity, and hopelessness infecting modern tribal societies.

Not all addictions were chemically based. How many people could get by without their cars or air-conditioning or refrigeration or electricity? The truth was that mankind was addicted to technology.

What do you know about the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory?" "Never heard of it." "It's a big, two-million-pound bottle of heavy water over a mile below ground in a nickel mine in Sudbury, Ontario. The whole thing is surrounded by a sixty-foot-thick array of photomultiplier tubes and is suspended in a huge tank of light water.

As in combat, the key to this game was to get inside your opponent's decision cycle, making him react to what you were doing, rather than the reverse.

were denied direct participation in the government, forced to rely on wit and wile to influence the men who wielded raw power.

There was no path to victory when you couldn't attack into the heart of enemy territory for fear of collateral damage. Collateral damage! God help you if you killed some civilians, even if those were the very people supporting and enabling our enemies. Had that philosophy held sway in World War II, every American would now be speaking Japanese or German.

Long ago, I gave you my soul. Take care of it for me, until I find you again.

Know your enemy. Know the terrain. Know the conditions under which the battle will be fought.

Don't trust anyone, not even your best friends. Love them, but never trust them completely. At critical times, they can be influenced to do things you don't want.

And remember this. No victory is certain. No situation is hopeless. When you find yourselves in a hopeless situation, change the rules.

Ah," he said. "If you'd been born a man, you'd be a force to reshape the world." "Only a woman can do that.

Things look much brighter in the morning.

For that we'll need a focused subspace wave packet that will induce a signal in normal space. You can almost think of it as Faraday's induction principle applied across a subspace to normal space interface.

Without the merchant marine, there is no Walmart.)

Technically, a makeup artist's canvas is the face and body. The difference is that my painting of makeup is integrated into the painting of the flesh and not on top of it. I think in some ways it is more difficult to expressively deploy makeup.

Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that is going to be art. And I would even hold that true to a reality television show... maybe the entire overarching process of the show actually exists as an artistic structure.

I thought the first thing the pirates would do is take me out if they thought an attack was imminent. I really didn't see a good outcome.

Being in that other world of media, TV, Hollywood, it's not a real world. For me going back to work, it was a pleasure to get back to the world I knew. That's the real world. That's normal for me.