Buccaneer Quotes

#1. Down Time's quaint stream
Without an oar
We are enforced to sail
Our Port a secret
Our Perchance a Gale
What Skipper would
Incur the Risk
What Buccaneer would ride
Without a surety from the Wind
Or schedule of the Tide

Emily Dickinson

#2. People talk of "class selfishness". Well, I know something of history, and I never heard of any tyrant, aristocrat, capitalist, slave-holder, buccaneer, middle-class shopkeeper - so absolutely and exclusively governed by selfishness as Trades Union "labour".

George Saintsbury

#3. I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and strife that if cast ashore he would weary and languish no matter how alluring the shady groves and how bright the gentle sun.

Mikhail Lermontov

#4. The earl smiled at her, a buccaneer's smile if ever she saw one.

Grace Burrowes

#5. 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

#6. [b.] be prepared to be prepared.

Arundhati Roy

#7. The simplest consequence of walking on crutches is that you walk slower. Every step must be a necessary one. When you hurry, you get where you're going, but you get there alone. When you go slow, you get where you're going, but you get there with a community you've built along the way.

Bruce Feiler

#8. Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.

Martin Feldstein

#9. It can be hard to hold onto your vision because other people will want you to be like they are. But your life has a course of its own, and only you can walk it.

Eleanor Brownn

#10. It has been proven now scientifically that, an affirmative thought is hundreds of times more powerful than a negative thought.

Michael Beckwith

#11. I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.

Bob Weir

#12. In the future, I think you are going to want to capture a whole scene, a room, to be able to transport to that. To be able to stream what you are doing live and have people be able to interact in that space.

Mark Zuckerberg

#13. It is ridiculous to think that you can spend your entire life with just one person. Three is about the right number. Yes, I imagine three husbands would do it?

Clare Boothe Luce