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

Press Ganged Quotes #431057
#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

Press Ganged Quotes #688651
#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

Press Ganged Quotes #1505786
#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

Press Ganged Quotes #41378
#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

Press Ganged Quotes #244567
#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

Press Ganged Quotes #284381
#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

Press Ganged Quotes #421365
#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

Press Ganged Quotes #506636
#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

Press Ganged Quotes #562445
#10. Rioting is not revolutionary.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Press Ganged Quotes #718984
#11. I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide.

Pierre Salinger

Press Ganged Quotes #994360
#12. wonder is the mother of all science.

John Dewey

Press Ganged Quotes #1070423
#13. I wonder if that isn't the most sinful thing of all
thinking all the pleasant things are wicked.

Helen Nielsen

Press Ganged Quotes #1197913
#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

Press Ganged Quotes #1232770
#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

Press Ganged Quotes #1476010
#16. Life really comes down to two problems. You are either drinking too much or you are not drinking enough.

David Alejandro Fearnhead

Press Ganged Quotes #1604925

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