Quotes About Buccaneers

#1. Why is it possible to rescue S&L buccaneers in the early '90s and provide guidance to levered Wall Street investment bankers during the 1998 long-term capital management crisis, yet throw 2 million homeowners to the wolves in 2007?

Bill Gross

#2. First of all, I want to thank the Buccaneers for giving me the opportunity and for picking me in the draft. This is the nature of the beast, though, and this is a new start for me. I wish them the best of luck, and I am just glad to be a Bear.

Gaines Adams

#3. The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.

David Lloyd George

#4. 'The Buccaneers' was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.

James Frain

#5. We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.

Alexander Eliot

#6. I prefer 'buccaneers',' he grinned. 'A small privately funded army of committed peacekeepers. Tough, but fair. Our motto is: We put the fist in 'pacifist'.

Cash Peters

#7. Christy Turlington is my idol. She really is. She's a gorgeous woman inside and out. I admire her work in the charity field. She's just been able to balance it all - and gracefully, as well.

Karlie Kloss

#8. I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.

Kristin Hersh

#9. If wishes were horses mine would be glue -

Carrie Fisher

#10. Whenever you meet anybody, it is a holy encounter. The primary event is the energy field of presence between you and the other human being that arises. You enjoy it. There is deep joy in the meeting.

Eckhart Tolle

#11. The best followers are those who think it was their own idea to follow you.

Ken Liu

#12. [I'm] looking for a good balance between digital and creative work.

Yugo Nakamura

#13. ...life makes ugly faces at us sometimes, I know.

Edith Wharton

#14. Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.

Anne Rice

#15. I'm not going to go on Twitter and rant about something.

Ansel Elgort

#16. (I always thought that they should make an epidural that works from the neck up, which was a condition I aspired to for most of what I laughingly refer to as my adult life.)

Carrie Fisher

#17. The need for frequent chemical vacations from intolerable selfhood and repulsive surroundings will undoubtedly remain. What is needed is a new drug which will relieve and console our suffering species without doing more harm in the long run than it does good in the short.

Aldous Huxley

#18. Some people don't really know enough to make a pronouncement of doom on a human being.

Norman Cousins