There are no pirates in Port Royal

“I hope some cool-headed white men will make the Negroes save the rice for us. It is so much needed. They say it might…

— Mary Boykin Chesnut

The arrival of the Barbary pirates radically changed English attitudes. Instead of patriotic pirates plundering foreign cargoes and bringing them homes to enrich their…

— Nicholas Rodger

I go back five generations in Jamaica. My dad grew up in Port Royal, and my mom grew up in Kingston. My family is…

— Dule Hill

To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to…

— Michel Foucault

Common sense is not really so common. The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic

— Antoine Arnauld

The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.

— Paulo Coelho

No wind favors him who has no destined port

— Norman Peale

About 95% of people can be compared to ships without rudders. Subject to every shift of wind and tide, they're helplessly adrift. And while…

— Earl Nightingale

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

— Thomas Aquinas

Some boats are rotten in the ports; some boats shine in the hard journeys!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus…

— Seneca the Younger

There are only two options for a ship: Either to sail to the sea and fight with the waves or rot in a port!…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“You can make a boat, but you can't make the ocean. You can make an airplane, but you can't make the air. Your powers…

— Michael Crichton

I have a brother who's six years older than me and we only ever watched stuff that he wanted to watch - 'Lord of…

— Iman Vellani

“Imagination is a deadly weapon, it pays to keep it sharp.”

— Sam Conniff Allende