Captain Queeg Quotes

#1. Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line.

Anthony Kennedy

#2. I think that the people that are publicly on Hillary Clinton's short list all are very congenial people. They're not people with personality or Captain Queeg problems.

Mark Shields

#3. Politics can not only be drudgery and Captain Queeg with the balls in his hands.

John Kasich

#4. Every monarch in the world, except the Emperor of China, wears a military uniform, and bestows the greatest rewards on the man who kills the greatest number of his fellow-creatures.

Leo Tolstoy

#5. I'm a nice girl from the Detroit area - Livonia, to be exact.

Judy Greer

#6. It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.

Brit Hume

#7. Sometimes you make plans. Sometimes plans make themselves.

David Levithan

#8. Old muleskinners told how the mules were waiting at the shaft when they arrived each morning. They wanted relief from the heat, deerflies and mosquitoes just like the men.

Harry Anderson

#9. Every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

Edith Wharton

#10. The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.

Charles Dickens

#11. I have always considered Saipan the decisive battle of the Pacific offensive ... (it was) the naval and military heart and brain of the Japanese defence strategy.

Holland Smith