The Buccaneers Quotes

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

James Frain

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

Alexander Eliot

#3. 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

#4. The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette.

Garry Kasparov

#5. Truth brings light, light refracts off the mirror,
Visions of yourself and error could never be clearer.
The truth is that you ugly ...
Not on the outside, but in the inside;
On the outside, you frontin' you lovely.

Pharoahe Monch

#6. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

Laurence Binyon

#7. Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness.

Jalaja Bonheim

#8. You never want to sound bitter about critics, because they're entitled to do their job, too, but I place much more trust in a person who I can look in the eye and someone who I know I share some kind of taste with - so my friends, for instance. For me, a critic is unknown and therefore irrelevant.

Laura Donnelly

#9. You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.

Lance Bass

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

David Lloyd George

#11. We were driven off like rats in five minutes.

Roger Sherman

#12. No one can take, nor steal what they did not give. They don't have power that role like that!

Anita R. Sneed-Carter

#13. You're only going to be as good as the people you surround yourself with.

Austin Kleon

#14. Mr. Sherlock Holmes ... was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#15. Older people make this mistake all the time with younger people, treating them as a finished product when in fact they are in process.

Andre Agassi

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

Edith Wharton

#17. 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

#18. Small changes can produce big results - but the areas of highest leverage are often the least obvious.

Peter Senge

#19. Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#20. 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

#21. I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.

Tadanobu Asano

#22. In a large sense, Main Street is the American origin story. It's an evocation of the American creation tale, and the kick is that the American origin story is a never-ending one, a perpetual tale of creation and re-creation, an eternal now.

Leslie Le Mon