Piratical Quotes

#1. I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we're engaging in piracy.

Will Oldham

#2. Lemon Featherlight was an ex-Marine, a full-blood Mayaimi Indian, irritatingly handsome in a piratical sort of way, a condition even more grating because all the women loved him, and made even moreso because he was actually a decent guy, and nobody needed that.

Carsten Stroud

#3. A cat loped across my gaze with a squint-eyed, piratical look, and a suave grin.

William Styron

#4. Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. Pick on our clients, will you, you parasitical, piratical, putrefied parcels of puking pus-filled perverts.

Anne McCaffrey

#6. Nippers was a whiskered, sallow, and, upon the whole, rather piratical-looking young man of about five and twenty. I always deemed him the victim of two evil powers - ambition and indigestion.

Herman Melville

#7. It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.

Alice Hamilton

#8. We both know that's not exactly healthy, Gideon." "Says who? No one else knows what it's like to be us.

Sylvia Day

#9. Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

Aisha Tyler

#10. My job as Labour Home Secretary is to ensure people are prepared to listen to us when we take on our opponents across the political spectrum.

David Blunkett

#11. Mark Hughes at his very best: he loves to feel people right behind him ...

Kevin Keegan

#12. The future will be no primrose path. It will have its own problems. Some will be the secular problems of the past, giant flowers of evil blossoming at last to their own destruction. Others will be wholly new.

John B. S. Haldane

#13. In 'Garden Party' or '40 Days and 40 Nights,' I played characters who people don't necessarily like; I just find some humanity in them.

Vinessa Shaw

#14. There is no doubt as to what needs to happen. There has to be a complete rejection of the type of terrorist attacks carried out in India.

Tony Blair

#15. If you want to retire young and retire rich, it is very important that your money be like a bird dog, going out every day and bringing home more and more assets.

Robert Kiyosaki

#16. Most vices ... demand considerable self-sacrifice. There is no greater mistake than to suppose the vicious life is the life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful - if strenuously led - as Christian's in Pilgrims Progress.

Aldous Huxley