Pirate Quotes - Page 6

• I've lived long enough to see the triumph of zealots and absolutists, to watch money swallow politics, to witness the rise of the corporate state. See the party of working and poor people become a sycophant of crony capitalism. Watch the union of church and state become fashionable again. Witness the coupling of news and entertainment. See everyday people cast overboard as the pirates and predators of Wall Street seized the ship of state. I didn't drift; I moved left just by standing still.

  Bill Moyers

  Wall, Party, Long

  Source: progressive.org

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• In a sense the Pirate Party is very similar to what happened for the Bernie Sanders campaign, where people felt inspired and they felt like they were having an impact, a big grass-roots-inspired movement, in particular with young people.

  Birgitta Jonsdottir

  Party, Impact, Roots

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates... Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing, boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.

  Lewis Carroll

  Son, Men, Snakes

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• She always did like tales of adventure-stories full of brightness and darkness. She could tell you the names of all King Arthur's knights, and she knew everything about Beowulf and Grendel, the ancient gods and the not-quite-so-ancient heroes. She liked pirate stories, too, but most of all she loved books that had at least a knight or a dragon or a fairy in them. She was always on the dragon's side by the way.

  Cornelia Funke

  Kings, Book, Hero

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.139, Scholastic Inc.

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• He was breathing, which is always a good sign. As gently as I could I picked him up, placed him on the towel, wrapped it around him, and put him in my car. I drove to the emergency clinic, the cat purring on the seat beside me. “What’s his name?” the young man at the front desk asked as my towel and cat were whisked to a back room. “Uh…John Tomkins,” I said. “That’s different,” the receptionist said, writing it down. “He was a pirate,” I said. “I mean Tomkins. I don’t know about the cat. (...)

  Josh Lanyon

  Writing, Mean, Cat

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• It’s only a scratch, don’t cut my arm off!

  Carrie Vaughn

  Cutting, Scratches, Arms

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• My daughter was asked by a little old lady in a London hotel restaurant what her daddy did. She answered, “He’s a pirate” - I was very proud of that answer.

  Johnny Depp

  Daughter, Daddy, Answers

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• 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, Knights, Done

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• I don’t know how you’ve managed a tan,” Daydra said, “but you’ll have to keep it up, and talk like a pirate. If you want to work for Momma K, you’re going to be the Sethi pirate girl. You have a husband or a lover?” Kaldrosa hesitated. “Husband,” she admitted. “The last beating nearly killed him.” “If you do this, you’ll never get him back. A man can forgive a woman who leaves whoring for him, but he’ll never forgive one who goes whoring for him.” “It’s worth it,” Kaldrosa said. “To save his life, it’s worth it.

  Brent Weeks

  Girl, Husband, Men

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• 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

  Dog, Koalas, Four

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• Right, and you point out something important which is that people who don’t want to pay, people who are pirates, don’t get bothered by the DRM, they go out and buy the cracked books or download the cracked books for free. It’s only people who are foolish enough to pay for them that get locked into these platforms.

  Cory Doctorow

  Book, People, Important

  "Interview with Cory Doctorow, Part 2: Ebooks, DRM and Universal Formats". Interview with Sara Rosso, whenihavetime.com. April 7, 2009.

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• A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Adventure, Mean, Taste

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• It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out! A door slammed. The maid screamed. Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the horizon! While millions of people were starving, the king lived in luxury. Meanwhile, on a small farm in Kansas, a boy was growing up.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Kings, Growing Up, Dark

  Charles M. Schulz (1971). “Snoopy and "It was a dark and stormy night"”, Henry Holt & Co

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• But I don't want to be a pirate!

  Jerry Seinfeld

  "Seinfeld/ The Puffy Shirt". www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• Yeah? Can you draw a skeleton riding a motorcycle with flames coming out of it? And I want a pirate hat on the skeleton. And a parrot on his shoulder. A skeleton parrot. Or maybe a ninja skeleton parrot? No, that would be overkill. But it'd be cool if the biker skeleton could be shooting some ninja throwing stars. That are on fire.

  Richelle Mead

  Stars, Fire, Skeletons

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.156, Penguin

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• This is going to make such a great story: How I nursed a pirate back to health and my love saved him," Miss Ohio said with a contented sigh. "And then we can have our own reality show about our relationship." - "Beauty Queens

  Libba Bray

  Queens, Reality, Ohio

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.266, Scholastic Inc.

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• Gundar isn't so much a ship's captain as a reformed pirate and a heathen." [Evanlyn] looked apologetically at Gundar. "No offense, Gundar." The skirl shrugged cheerfully. "None taken, little lady. It's a pretty fair description. Not sure about the reformed part," he added thoughtfully.

  John Flanagan

  Taken, Littles, Captains

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• Stache’s attack was perfectly timed, thanks to his veteran-pirate grasp tactics—and a big piece if luck.

  Dave Barry

  Luck, Pieces, Tactics

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• Please, I begged silently, please do not let my last moments on earth be me crammed into a tiny boat in the dark, surrounded by mechanical singing pirates.

  James Patterson

  Dark, Singing, Earth

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• Hey, listen. I don’t care what you punks do around the universe, but this is my sword, and anywhere it can reach is my country. Bastards who come in and try to mess with my things... whether it be a shogun, whether it be space pirates, whether it be a meteorite... I’ll destroy them!

  Hideaki Sorachi

  Country, Space, Guy

  "Fictional character: Gintoki Sakata". Anime series "Gin Tama" (Episode 13: "If you're going to cosplay, do it with all your heart!", 2006), www.imdb.com. (2005 - ).

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• 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

  America, What If, Way

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”, p.24, Penguin

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• First, she wanted to taste the sweat that shone on his throat and fragile clavicle; then he chose to undo the tails of her shirt, that she had tied up beneath her breasts; then, but then impatient they forgot about taking turns and quarreled silently, eagerly over each other, like pirates dividing treasure long sought, long imagined, long withheld.

  John Crowley

  Sweat, Long, Tails

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• Writers are there to write, not experience things. If you want to experience things, become a pirate or a Bookhunter. If you want to write, write. If you can't find the makings of a story inside yourself, you won't find them anywhere.

  Walter Moers

  Writing, Stories, Want

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• We can't just act without thinking anymore, Tris. They've been trying to teach as that all along. I guess if we're mages, we can't exactly be kids, can we? - Sandry after the pirate attack

  Tamora Pierce

  Kids, Thinking, Exactly Is

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• The United States of America was a pirate nation for the first one hundred years of its existence, ripping off the patents and trademarks of the imperial European powers it had liberated itself from by blood. By keeping their GDP at home, the U.S. revolutionaries were able to bootstrap their nation into an industrial powerhouse. Now, it seems, their descendants are bent on ensuring that no other country can pull the same trick off.

  Cory Doctorow

  Country, Home, America

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