#pirate

It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood. ↗

— Corey Feldman

#because #bunch #childhood #experience #fondest

Mr. Bird flung his food away and leaped to his feet, glaring around at no one in particular. 'I am not a dog!' he shouted agrily, his gold earrings flashing in the firelight. ↗

— Tim Powers

#nautical #ocean #pirate #pirates #seas

Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#immortality #pirates #death

Well Connor thought ruefully At least now I know who to thank for my anger issues. ↗

— Justin Somper

#connor #funny #vampirates #anger

We'd love to do Pirates for the 21st century. People have also asked about Colonization, and a few others. ↗

— Sid Meier

#about #also #asked #century #colonization

Death is death. Whether you die smiling or with tears in your eyes, it amounts to the same thing. A whole heap of nothing ↗

— Justin Somper

#death

However bad your life appears, things could be far, far worse ↗

— Justin Somper

#life

I have never cared about setting world records, or filling my boat with fish, or, for that matter, even catching fish. I go for the experience of spending six hours in the arms of the ocean, never thinking of a single thing except chasing fish. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#experience

I can smell the smoke now. I can see tendrils of it comin' up between the cracks in the shrikin' floorboards. There she is, calmly taking down the framed examples of fine embroideries, samplers, and needlework from teh hallway wall and tucking them under her arm. "Mistress! Come on! You've got to leave!" She calmly turns and faces me. "Why?" she asks. "The British are coming?" "Only one, Mistress," I say ↗

— L.A. Meyer

#british #humor #pirates #humor

It's important to have as much fun as possible while we're here. It balances out the times when the minefield of life explodes. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#life