Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Oldham

I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes something that's more radical, more exciting, more subversive than a pirate could ever be.

Mark Twain

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

Prince Philip

Aren't most of you descended from pirates?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.

Shel Silverstein

Pirate Captain Jim "Walk the plank," says Pirate Jim "But Captain Jim, I cannot swim." "Then you must steer us through the gale." "But Captain Jim, I cannot sail." "Then down with the galley slaves you go." "But Captain Jim, I cannot row." "Then you must be the pirate's clerk." "But Captain Jim, I cannot work.

Queen Latifah

I like Pirate's Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.

Lawrence Lessig

Some may not like the Constitution's requirements, but that doesn't make the Constitution a pirate's charter.

Lawrence Lessig

Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.

Karl Pilkington

Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.

Richard P. Feynman

We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the past. It shows that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. For instance, how much more remarkable it is for us all to be stuck-half of us upside down-by a mysterious attraction, to a spinning ball that has been swinging in space for billions of years, than to be carried on the back of an elephant supported on a tortoise swimming in a bottomless sea.

Ryan Lochte

The swimming community is really small, but why can't it be as big as the NBA or the NFL?

Ryan Lochte

You'd be amazed at what I can do. Did you know I can swim?

Ronda Rousey

After I did the swimsuit issuе, I knew that I wanted to do it again.

Woodrow Wilson

I confess my belief in the common man.... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.

Will Ferrell

I'm a really good swimmer.

Sarah Addison Allen

He reached for her and kissed her. It was all at once passionate, as if there was too much in him to contain. He was immediately swept up in it. It took no effort, the difference between swimming on your own and being washed away in a flood.

Sarah Dessen

I felt like I'd been swimming so hard, and the water growing warmer and warmer the closer I got to the top. I wasn't there yet, but now I could see the surface, rippling just beyond my fingers.

Sarah Dessen

Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore.

William J. Brennan

Clerks get into the damnedest wrangles--which is the way they help me.

Salvador Dali

Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch.

William Cowper

There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.

Rick Warren

I hope that the community will cooperate and not hassle the clerks with what they have to do. It's a good store and serves a good need to the community.

Kevin Smith

I'm not even supposed to be here today.

Kevin Smith

You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude, but they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.

Sean William Scott

I live right next to a grocery store and I don't know if it's the bachelor in me, but I just go in and shop for what I need for the day. I'm an idiot because I don't shop for the whole week. The check out clerks always crack jokes about the fact that I'm in there sometimes twice a day.

Karl Kraus

There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.

John Heywood

But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!