Famous Pirate Movie Quotes & Sayings

I came to see her strangely serene manner as both a sign of just how much she expected to get whatever she wanted, and also an instrument by which she managed to do that, plain persistent saying what she wanted to be true in the expectation that it would eventually become so. It's a method I'd found worked best for those who are already positioned to mostly get what they want. Obviously Fosyf had found it worked for her. — Ann Leckie

Analytical philosophy was very interesting. It always struck me as being very interesting and full of tremendous intellectual curiosities. It is wonderful to see the mind at work in such an
intense manner, but, for me, it was still too far removed from my own issues. — Joseph Conrad

All ghost stories come to this, she understood. All ghost stories end in one of two ways: You are dead or I am dead. If people only understood this, Portia thought, they would never be frightened, they would only need to ask themselves, Who among us has died?
And then she occurred to her that she was the ghost in her story. She had spent years haunting her own life, without ever noticing. — Jean Hanff Korelitz

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes. — Antisthenes

It's terrible feeling like an eligible bachelor but no women seeming to agree with you. — Pete Townshend

I have a Maltese Shih Tzu. I'm notorious for dressing her up in sweaters. — Caroline Sunshine

There are some things I keep sacred. My middle name. Who I sleep with. And what kind of hand moisturizer I use. — Johnny Weir

We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star. — Gary Kemp