Pirate Quotes - Page 8

• With a sound like a bat hitting a watermelon, pirate fist connected with pirate jaw and a gold tooth bounced across the deck.

  Gideon Defoe

  Gold Teeth, Sound, Bats

  Gideon Defoe (2010). “The Pirates!: An Adventure with Scientists & An Adventure with Ahab”, p.12, Vintage

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• Galois read the geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Teenager, Science, Boys

  "Men of Mathematics".

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• Our goal has been to stay true to what people most love about the original Pirates! while upgrading, enhancing, and in some cases, re-inventing the game to make it a great experience for todays gamers.

  Sid Meier

  Games, People, Goal

  Interview with Kristan Reed, www.eurogamer.net. June 12, 2004.

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• I greatly doubt whether the men who become pirate chiefs are those who are filled with retrospective terror of their fathers, or whether Napoleon , at Austerlitz, really felt that he was getting even with Madame Mère. I know nothing of the mother of Attila , but I rather suspect that she spoilt the little darling, who subsequently found the world irritating because it sometimes resisted his whims.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mother, Father, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Power: A New Social Analysis”, p.32, Routledge

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• The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along swaggering boisterously. His face is weather beaten, he wears a hooded sash with a silver hat about his head... The autumn wind is a Raider, pillaging just for fun.

  Steve Sabol

  Song, Fun, Autumn

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band. Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man. Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand.

  Elton John

  Baby, Men, Blue

  Song: Tiny Dancer

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• I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.

  Abigail Breslin

  Fans, Caribbean, Huge

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• The Steve Jobs who founded Apple as an anarchic company promoting the message of freedom, whose first projects with Stephen Wozniak were pirate boxes and computers with open schematics, would be taken aback by the future that Apple is forging. Today there is no tech company that looks more like the Big Brother from Apple’s iconic 1984 commercial than Apple itself, a testament to how quickly power can corrupt.

  Mike Daisey

  Brother, Jobs, Taken

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• Aren't most of you descended from pirates?

  Prince Philip

  Inspiration, Edinburgh, Classic

  "Long Line of Princely Gaffes". Said in 1994 to an inhabitant of the Cayman Islands, news.bbc.co.uk. March 01, 2002.

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• When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.

  Orlando Bloom

  Moving, Play, Guy

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 3, 2005.

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• What's a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy

  Bo Burnham

  Funny, Humor, Creative

  Song: New Math, Album: Bo Burnham

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• I have a pirate fetish-I just always thought eye patches were sexy. If you want to get my attention, wear a pirate outfit.

  Michelle Branch

  Sexy, Eye, Attention

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Specifically, the part where in the early 19th century America reconstituted the U.S. Marine Corps to battle the Islamic Barbary Pirates, though I don't think that's what Obama meant.

  Barack Obama

  Islamic, Marine, Thinking

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• The horizon has been defeated by the pirates of the new age.

  Jack Johnson

  Future, Age, Horizon

  Song: The Horizon Has Been Defeated, Album: On And On

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• Pirates of the Caribbean, move over! Make room for a crew of mouse-privateers who will capture your hearts and stop your breath with their thrilling sea-going adventures! A wonderful story, full of bold mice, good and wicked, who will show you what courage really means.

  Lynne Reid Banks

  Moving, Heart, Adventure

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• The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club and the lethal chamber, has been mysticism - the belief that logic is misleading, and that things are not what they seem.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Night, Men, Race

  "Tolstoy". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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• Action and adventure on land and sea-you can't ask for more. But Robert Kurson raises the ante in Pirate Hunters with an array of mystery and a fleet of colorful characters spanning four centuries. This is a great summer read!

  Michael Connelly

  Summer, Character, Adventure

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• Yes, I am a pirate two hundred years too late.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Years, Two, Too Late

  Song: A Pirate Looks At Forty, Album: A1A, 1974

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• No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all that comes to an end. And then, Remo Williams, is when the adventure begins.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Adventure, Cowboy, Play

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• There's nothing in the world like buried treasure-and people hungry and obsessed enough to risk their lives for it. Pirate Hunters isn't just a good story-it's a true one. Searching for the souls of its explorers, it takes you to the far tip of the plank and plunges you deep to the bottom of the ocean.

  Brad Meltzer

  Ocean, People, Risk

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• You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Handsome, Ships, Common

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2012). “Treasure Island”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Play, Pockets, Stealing

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• He gazes through sunlight's buttresses, back down the refectory at the others, wallowing in their plenitude of bananas, thick palatals of their hunger lost somewhere in the stretch of morning between them and himself. A hundred miles of it, so suddenly. Solitude, even among the meshes of this war, can when it wishes so take him by the blind gut and touch, as now, possessively. Pirate's again some other side of a window, watching strangers eat breakfast.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Morning, War, Solitude

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.12, Penguin

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• My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis, against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The first pitch I threw was to third baseman Bob Bailey. It was a fastball, low and away. He ripped it for a home run down the left field line. I said, 'Damn, that was a pretty good pitch.

  Steve Carlton

  Running, Home, League

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• I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Valleys, Proud, Gates

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