Calico Jack Rackham Quotes & Sayings

An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb — Chinua Achebe

You can't expect to make all this money and not go through problems. You can't expect God to give you everything you want without taking something away. — French Montana

Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time. — David Mitchell

If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves. — John Irving

Not many people care what you do. They care about what you do as much as you care about what they do. Think about it. Just exactly that much. You are not the center of the universe. — Laurie Anderson

If you would have fought like a man you wouldn't have to die like a dog."
(Anne Bonny to John "Calico Jack" Rackham) — Anne Bonny

His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times. — Laura Hillenbrand

Like the sound of a velvet curtain being drawn aside on a peaceful morning to let sunlight wake someone very special to you. — Haruki Murakami

Pirates almost never sailed with women. Just four or five are known to have worked as pirates during the Golden Age. Two of them - Mary Read and Anne Bonny - became famous, dressing as men and fighting alongside one of the most celebrated of all pirate captains, 'Calico' Jack Rackham. — Robert Kurson

Bob Hope was totally regimented. I go in and say a line like, 'Hi Bob' and I'd have to do it five times, and then Bob would take me to the writers to say the line different ways. He wouldn't let me ad-lib. — Don Rickles

Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives. — Paulo Coelho