Most Famous Pirate Quotes & Sayings

Think of this every day. I think of it when I meet the turtle with its patient green face, or hear the hawk's tin-tongued skittering cry, or watch the otters at play in the pond. I am blood and bone however that happened, but I am convictions of my singular experience and my own thought, and they are made greatly of the hours of the earth, rough or smooth, but never less than intimate, poetic, dreamy, adamant, ferocious, loving, life-shaping. — Mary Oliver

One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden. — Steven Strogatz

Distinguish between getting lost and losing your way. The first is a shift in direction. The second is the absence of perspective. Cultivate perspective and you will be able to steer home. — Gina Greenlee

Black Pearl was the most famous courtesan of all. "She's descended from the dragons, that one," the woman had told Cat. "The first Black Pearl was a pirate queen. — George R R Martin

The brain is a furnace./
Is transformed and transforms. — Stan Rice

The press is like the air, a chartered libertine. — William Pitt

There are certain things we owe our little sisters. — Claire Hennessy

One arises from a low to a high station more often by using fraud instead of force. — Niccolo Machiavelli

The cheapest and most efficient way of slowing down global warming is to protect and restore the forests, particularly the tropical forests — Jane Goodall

Democrats had a secret meeting in Reid's office on Halloween night at 6:15 and they hatched this plot, ... They said the only way they could get this investigation going was to do it in secret. They say they've been frustrated for a year and a half in getting this investigation into whether the administration twisted the intelligence and they're making no apologies whatsoever for it. — George Stephanopoulos

NO ONE IS CAPABLE OF FREEING ONESELF FROM SOCIETY. — Abdellah Taia

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

The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy. — Georg Simmel

A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify. — Leo Szilard

We walked the length of Jackson Square, stopping to look at the work of a couple of artists who'd set up their sidewalk shops for the day.
"Look." Eugenie stopped in front of an acrylic painting of a mustached man with curly dark hair, hooded eyes, and a big hooked nose. He looked like he'd steal the hubcaps off your grandmother's Cadillac.
"It's Jean Lafitte, our most famous pirate," the artist said. "He was quite a character."
She had no idea. She also had badly missed the mark on his looks. His hair wasn't that curly, he'd been clean-shaven the whole time I'd known him, his nose was straight and in perfect proportion to the rest of his features, and he didn't have hooded black eyes. Still, he might find it entertaining. "How much?" I asked. — Suzanne Johnson

Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment. The eternal makes you urgent. You are loath to let compromise or the threat of danger hold you back from striving toward the summit of fulfillment. — John O'Donohue

I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished because it's forever changing with the seasons. — Mary Quant

I do everything in my power to get myself to a 100% so I can perform to my potential ... that's all I can ask for. — Jake Ellenberger