Top 16 Press Ganged Quotes
#1. press-ganged', 'taking the wind out of your sails', 'shot across the bows', 'loose cannon', 'shipshape', 'batten down the hatches' belong more obviously to the sea. Others such as 'close quarters', 'cut and run', 'fathoming' something, 'broad in the beam' and the 'cut of your jib' take a moment
Ben Wilson
#2. My mum's uncle was a sailor," said Nobby. "But after the big plague he got press-ganged. Bunch of farmers got him drunk, and he woke up next morning tied to a plough.
Terry Pratchett
#3. I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the journals of 18th-century seafarers lately, and even the lowliest press-ganged deck-swabber turns a finer phrase than I do most days.
Geraldine Brooks
#4. Chyna's dumb ass messed up by trying to run Blaize over. How could she be so stupid to think that no one would see the plates?
Myiesha
#5. My uncle always said that it was the sword in a man's hand that determined his wroth, not the one between his legs. - Arianne
George R R Martin
#6. Ashes, ashes." Her whispered words of an old rhyme smashed through the silence as thunder, and in unison, the shadow figures answered.
"We all fall down.
A.F. Stewart
#7. If we're honest, most of us would accept that a bad boss is a little bit like a bad father or a bad husband ... you find that he tends to do more good than harm. He might be a bad boss but at least he's employing someone while he is in fact a boss.
Tony Abbott
#8. There's a Mother's Day and there's a Father's Day, but there's no Children's Day. It would mean a lot. World peace.
Michael Jackson
#9. Anybody can be a halfway man, but the one who rises above this class is the one who keeps everlastingly pushing.
J. Ogden Armour
#11. I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide.
Pierre Salinger
#12. wonder is the mother of all science.
John Dewey
#13. I wonder if that isn't the most sinful thing of all
thinking all the pleasant things are wicked.
Helen Nielsen
#14. If I was strategic, I would have figured out how to get out of this place. Would have seen everything falling apart and got out while there were still ships to sail.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#15. Bump stood in the middle of the room, wrapped in a heavy fur coat, with a black silk top hatcovering his fuzzy head and unnecessary sunglasses hiding his pale face. He looked like the Abominable Snowpimp.
Stacia Kane
#16. Life really comes down to two problems. You are either drinking too much or you are not drinking enough.
David Alejandro Fearnhead
