39 Quotes by Richard Phillips

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.

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

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

Nothing is over until you quit.

I am just a bit player, a seaman doing his part like all the seamen out there.

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.

The Merchant Marines fight piracy all over the world. We fight piracy in the Philippines, the east and west coast of Africa, and the east and west coast of South America.

Anytime money is your main focus, I think we all come to problems.