Captain Barbossa Quotes & Sayings

Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule ... [Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet the fact is, physically it has changed remarkably little. People's feelings about it, rather, have changed. The neighborhood shows a strange inability to update itself, enliven itself, repair itself, or to be sought after, out of choice, by a new generation. It is dead. Actually it was dead from birth, but nobody noticed this much until the corpse began to smell. — Jane Jacobs

New York and New Jersey are probably two of my favorite places to get really good surf in the summertime. — Brandon Cruz

Sometimes you just need to train your self to be alone, so that in the end, whenever they leave you, you'll be brave enough to face your fears and tears. — Auliq Ice

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. — Harper Lee

When chimps threaten, they open their mouth and show their teeth. It's a little like waving a knife in front of you. It's very primitive, and therefore bizarre. — Helen Fisher

I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good, and to quote Captain Barbossa, the parameters are like rules, mostly guidelines. And that it takes a little bit of bad boy to fight the evil in the world.
Terri Mitchell — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Maybe, it is not the thorn on the rose that we should see, but the beauty of the gesture. — Shannon L. Alder

The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions. — Heinrich Heine

I grew up in the suburbs among highly educated people, in a house crammed with books. It was a culture rich in ideas, stimulation, entertainment, and mental activity, all helpful to the nurture of an imaginative child who wanted from an early age to be a writer. — Stephen Hunter

I'm a very smart guy. I haven't a feeling or a scruple in the world. All I have the itch for is money. I am so money greedy that for twenty-five bucks a day and expenses, mostly gasoline and whisky, I do my thinking myself, what there is of it; I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops ... I dodge bullets and eat saps, and say thank you very much, if you have any more trouble, I hope you'll think of me, I'll just leave one of my cards in case anything comes up. — Raymond Chandler

What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are. — Edgar Friedenberg

People with OCD including myself, realize that their seemingly uncontrollable behavior is irrational, but they feel unable to stop it. — Abhijit Naskar

Honestly, the world can be a dark enough place. Light it up. — John Barrowman

Speaking uses us up, speeds us up. Without prayer, that act of confession for merely existing, one might live forever and not know it. — Gregory Maguire