Quotes with pirate-style

Quotes 121 till 140 of 148.

  • Bruce Lee The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.
    Source: Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 6
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • John Berger The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Abba Goold Woolson The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.
    Abba Goold Woolson
    American writer (0 - 1921)
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  • Edward Gibbon The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Alan Watts The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Carine Roitfeld The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Benjamin Rush The turgid style of Johnson, the purple glare of Gibbon, and even the studied and thickset metaphors of Junius are all equally unnatural, and should not be admitted into our company.
    Benjamin Rush
    American politician (1745 - 1813)
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  • Bibhu Mohapatra There is no need to pose for anything - you just walk straight and strong and be clear. We are all born with unique characteristics and we have to stick to that. Yes, use the tools to enhance it, but we shouldn't be hiding behind them. That's what style is about.
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  • Bob Kane There were other Batman writers throughout the years but they could never capture the style and flavor of Bill's scripts. Bill was the best writer in the business and it seemed that he was destined to write Batman.
    Source: Bob Kane and Tom Andrae (1989)
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Bill Bruford This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.
    Bill Bruford
    English drummer, composer and producer (1949 - )
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  • Florence King Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories... but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted déjà vu.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Jean-Luc Godard To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body - both go together, they can't be separated.
    Jean-Luc Godard
    French film director (1930 - 2022)
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  • Graham Greene We mustn't complain too much of being comedians - it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed - that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Bruce Barton We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Seneca When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Burnie Burns When Geoff Ramsey and Jack Pattillo started 'Achievement Hunter,' we expanded heavily into 'let's play'-style gaming videos and have since expanded with a massive roster of gaming talent and multiple channels dedicated just to gaming videos.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Boris Spassky When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler When I first asked my boxing coach, two-time Olympic champion Hector Vinent, what made the Cuban style of fighting distinct from the rest of the world, he smiled and told me to sit on a bench in Prado and watch the Cuban women walk.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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