Boucan Quotes

#1. The word "buccaneer" originated in a native people's term for smokehouse, which the French pronounced boucan. The original boucaniers didn't board ships and steal treasure; they were the jerky kings of the Western Hemisphere.

Tom Reiss

#2. The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

Andre Gide

#3. Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call power!

Nicola Morgan

#4. A child is not a bargaining chip or a learning tool. Your focus, if you adopt a child of a different race, should be on nurturing and protecting your child from bigotry, not deploying him or her as an anti-racist Mr. Fix-It.

Mallory Ortberg

#5. Where there are policemen there's crime, sergeant, remember that.

Terry Pratchett

#6. I have no illusions about my looks. I think my face is funny.

Audrey Hepburn

#7. In her experience, dead children, unlike dead adults, always looked as if they were sleeping - though she understood that there was an element of wishful thinking whenever she had come across corpses that young.

Chris Bohjalian

#8. history takes a long time to happen.

Gregory Maguire

#9. Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.

J. Paul Getty

#10. From within this chrysalis, the universe outside is the aberration; if I exit, the aberration will be me.

Christina Meldrum

#11. Literature is reflecting what is happening in life. More and more women are having relationships with younger men. It's partly that women are not losing their figures now.

Helen McCrory

#12. I was named after the great emperor Cyrus as my father, Farokh Broacha, was a great admirer of the Persian emperor. Continuing the tradition, I have named my son after Mikhail Gorbachev, someone whom I admire. He gave his people freedom.

Cyrus Broacha

#13. They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort.

Virginia Woolf

#14. Humor is the most precious gift I can give to my reader, a reminder that the world is not such a terribly serious place. There is more than video games and drugs and nuclear threats; there is laughter, and there is hope.

James Howe

#15. Being a celebrity, you can remain a child for ever, almost. You get away with more; you can get too pampered and it's not healthy.

Geri Halliwell

#16. No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.

Bertrand Russell