Quotes by Pirate I'm a big fan of pirates in general. Mike Leach pirate bigs fans But surely "Argh" is the sound of a sort of strangulated scream. Neil Gaiman pirate fall thinking Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners. Nicolas Chamfort pirate pockets play A captured pirate was brought before Alexander the Great. “How dare you molest the sea?” asked Alexander. “How dare you molest the whole world?” the pirate replied, and continued: “Because I do it with a little ship only, I am called a thief; you, doing it with a great navy, are called an emperor. Noam Chomsky navy pirate sea I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept. Orlando Bloom moonlight skeletons pirate I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already. Orlando Bloom cowboy pirate knights They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow (Schlaukopf) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half. Otto von Bismarck pirate gentleman trying Pirate historians have now discovered social history, the branch of history which in the last two decades or so has been the most dynamic and inventive, in both senses of the word. Peter Earle pirate branches two The English also had a reputation, shared with the Dutch, for blowing up their ships to avoid capture. In 1611, for instance, the Spanish Admiral Don Pedro de toledo captured a Turkish pirate ship, but its English consort, 'being wont to seek a voluntary death rather than yield, blew up their ship when they saw resistance useless'. Blowing up their ships, or at least threatening to do so, would become standard pirate practice. Peter Earle pirate yield practice Aren't most of you descended from pirates? Prince Philip edinburgh pirate inspiration It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians. Pseudonymous Bosch pirate treasure book I like Pirate's Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food. Queen Latifah olives booty pirate It does if you put yourself out there being a pirate. It's like if you have an army and your army sit around and not doing anything and living the lives of decadence and they're faced with a battle, and you slide. Do they deserve the right to call themselves an army? Do these pirates who are basically languishing deserve the right to call themselves pirates? They're victims of their own success. Ray Stevenson pirate army battle [Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense. Ray Stevenson pirate victim people I don't think you see a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, for example. And even with the accents. Ray Stevenson pirate example thinking The pamphlets going back to London telling of the violent derring-dos of the Bahamian pirates were the ones that brought infamy to the names of Charles Vane and Blackbeard. How much of that is really documented history? It carries a flavor with it, but take all this with a pinch of salt. Ray Stevenson flavor pirate names My gentleman gives the law where he is; he will outpray saints in chapel, outgeneral veterans in the field, and outshine all courtesy in the hall. He is good company for pirates, and good with academicians; so that it is useless to fortify yourself against him; he has the private entrance to all minds, and I could as easily exclude myself, as him. Ralph Waldo Emerson pirate law giving Especially with four insanely angry, sword-carrying pirates bearing down on you, followed closely by an alien with a genetic malfunction that posed like Elvis Presley and looked slightly like a cross between a koala and a cuddly dog. Ridley Pearson koalas pirate dog In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks. Ralph Waldo Emerson pirate clerks promise Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?' He wouldn't even have started. Roald Dahl pirate what-if america «12345678»