“There was a feeling on the air like the eve of the end of the world...” — Billie-Jo Williams Copy Share Image
“First rule of a pirate’s mate, keep yer eye on yer destination, not yer doom.” — Lisa Kessler Copy Share Image
“It was like the engineer had broken some code of the sea that said you must assist pirates in taking over your… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
Privateers, military contractors - these aren't pirates. They have bosses. Real pirates are sellswords on missions of their own making. — Mary H.K. Choi Copy Share Image
“The more powerful the person you meet, the more surprising it is to find out they’re just making it up, just like… — Sam Conniff Allende Copy Share Image
“The pirates, listening avidly at the mouths of the trees, heard the question put by every boy, and alas, they also heard… — J.M. Barrie Copy Share Image
“Try telling the truth for a whole week. And just see how much trouble you get in.” — Sam Conniff Allende Copy Share Image
[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense. — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Hurricanes couldn’t remove you from my mind. You’re my world and I’m incapable of not loving you.” — Billie-Jo Williams Copy Share Image
“...in my own perilous position, and above all, in the remarkable game that I saw Silver now engaged upon-keeping the mutineers together… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Can you imagine those poor bastards grappling their prey, leaping over the rails, swords in hand, screaming 'Your cats! Give us all… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
The really disturbing thing about Somalia is that in a country where there are few economic opportunities, pirates are perceived as glamorous… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
I tossed off a mention of the pirates early on. And they became integral to the backstory. Sometimes now I imagine them… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
The country (England) which was called a nation of pirates in the years around 1600 would eventually become the pirates' greatest scourge,… — Peter Earle Copy Share Image
“So you are the brash young lover returned from the dead?" the Frenchman finally said. "And you are the devoted fiance returned… — Hope Tarr Copy Share Image
“...One cannot help but consider the future- what will it be like when all the wild places of the earth have been… — Christopher Daniel Mechling Copy Share Image
“There comes a time in a man's life when he hears the call of the sea. "Hey, YOU!" are the sea's exact… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Don’t look so worried. I’ve sailed the seven seas, and I’ve never had an unsuccessful adventure yet!” “Really? You’ve sailed all seven… — Gideon Defoe Copy Share Image
“She rocked her hips into him and gasped. “Do you have a sleeping cabin on this boat?” His teeth brushed her ear.… — Lisa Kessler Copy Share Image
“It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the Sphynx’s… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“To the Hesitating Purchaser: "If sailor tales to sailor tunes, Storm and adventure, heat and cold, If schooners, islands, and maroons And… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The most impressive naval career of all the female sailors is that of William Brown, a black woman who spent at least… — David Cordingly Copy Share Image
“The fictional exploits of buccaneering men had lost their magic for him. Besides, there were other pirates on view in Tilbury that… — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share Image
“On previous trips the pirates have stolen valuables, killed people, raped and abducted girls...the women work frantically to ugly themselves up by… — Loung Ung Copy Share Image
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirates life for me. A toast to piracy and it's many shiny rewards. As a career, what… — Pirates Copy Share Image
“She smiled, and his dead heart warmed. One smile would never be enough.” — Lisa Kessler Copy Share Image
I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies. — Abigail Breslin Copy Share Image
“The Hispaniola still lay where she had anchored; but, sure enough, there was the Jolly Roger--the black flag of piracy--flying from her… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I really, really loved Elizabeth and Will from 'Pirates of the Caribbean.' I think a lot of people did. — Josephine Langford Copy Share Image
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