Quotes About The Black Pearl

#1. You" - he pointed at me - "are the black pearl.

Jerry Spinelli

#2. Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is ... is freedom.

Johnny Depp

#3. Obedient to her captain's will, The Black Pearl followed her dark angel over the azure water; as fast as the wind, as free as the men who sailed her. it was almost as though she knew she was a legend in the making, destined for adventures both great and terrible...

A.C. Crispin

#4. I let the music set the tone of the lyrics.I allowed myself to write more about relationships and emotions, in a girly way almost.

Jose Gonzalez

#5. She was a small cat, barely five pounds of black chinchilla fur and fangs, but Pearl Harbor envied her air-raid vocalizations.

Rhys Ford

#6. Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#7. My oldest brother used to take me to the theater. The first play he took me to see was 'Black Comedy,' then he took me to see 'Butley.' We'd see all these British plays. And 'Hello, Dolly,' with Pearl Bailey. I was unconsciously thinking, 'Gee, I would love to be able to do that.'

Nathan Lane

#8. Edgar Allan Poe, an earlier UVA student, once complained in a letter that his stepfather spoke to him as if Poe were one of the black slaves; some of the students at UVA surely felt the same about being told what to do by faculty.

Matthew Pearl

#9. I think the black community is no different from any other community. We need to take responsibility for how we live together. We need to be personally responsible for keeping our streets clean, our schools safe, and our houses peaceful.

Pearl Cleage

#10. Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.

Pearl Cleage

#11. It was a warm evening, nearly summer, and she wore a slim cool black dress, black sandals, a pearl choker

Truman Capote

#12. Black Pearl was the most famous courtesan of all. "She's descended from the dragons, that one," the woman had told Cat. "The first Black Pearl was a pirate queen.

George R R Martin

#13. Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

Pearl Cleage

#14. Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.

George Chapman

#15. No," Ray says. "He's getting paid in magic beans. Of course he's getting real money!

Wendy Mass

#16. The local-tone is the intrinsic value of a thing - excluding any effects of light. The local-tone of a common pearl is very nearly white; that of a lump of coal, nearly black.

Nathan Goldstein

#17. The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity.

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

#18. The overhead lights reflect in the glass countertop and mingle in the gray and black of the gloves, resulting in a mother-of-pearl swirl that sometimes sends Mirabelle into a shallow hypnotic dream.

Steve Martin

#19. I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.

Jack Kerouac

#20. Innovation keeps me ahead of my competition. It means that my foes must adapt to me, not the other way around.

Georges St-Pierre

#21. I told you, you're my black pearl. When i first set eyes on you in the servant's hall I thought you were the most beautiful thing I had ever seen in my life.

Daisy Goodwin