Top 55 Pirate Quotes

Pirate ships were built for stealth and invisibility. They filed no manifests with any agency or government. When they went missing or sunk, nobody went looking for them. They simply disappeared into the ether.

When we were kids, we would just go walking: just walk in a direction and hope that you were gonna find a crashed alien spaceship or buried pirate’s treasure or something like that. You never did. You’d find, like, a coyote skeleton, something like that. That was the most exciting thing you’d ever find.

A century before the concept took hold in America, pirate ships were democracies. Most captains were elected by crew and could be voted out anytime.

Life’s pretty good, and why wouldn’t it be? I’m a pirate, after all.

What’s the most fetching thing that provokes people? A volcano? Fountains that dance? A pirate ship that sinks? Some other animated device or presentation? Is that as strong as mystery? Allure, intrigue, is much more powerful… It taunts you.

There was a point in my life where I either wanted to be an astronaut, an actor, a veterinarian, or a pirate. I just thought being in space would be really cool, but then you have to have 20/20 vision, which I don’t have, so there.

Pirate radio is like street art.

When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.

I’m not a pirate. I’m an innovator.

I went to high school, and I started getting bullied because I was very weird. I mean, freshman year I went to school in a pirate suit – I just didn’t care. I’m not like the cool girls – I’m the other girl. The one that’s basically a nerd, but proud of that.

A teacher asked me if I’d audition for a play, and I ended up playing the pirate Red Dog in a production of ‘Treasure Island.’ And that’s where it started, and I really felt part of something special, but I still didn’t think about it as something I wanted to do. I was just having fun.

One of my favourite messages about ‘The Pirate Fairy’ is that the story is about appreciating your own talents.

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.

I have a pirate fetish – I just always thought eye patches were sexy.

We’re just a general-purpose search engine and torrent-tracking system. You can put whatever you want on the Pirate Bay. We don’t participate in how the people communicate with each other. We only participate in bringing the possibility to communicate and share files.

Yes, I’ve had a slight feeling of wanting to reclaim some of the lifestyle I had in my 20s, which means poncing around in what amounts to pirate clothes.

With a bucket of Lego, you can tell any story. You can build an airplane or a dragon or a pirate ship – it’s whatever you can imagine.

Violence, as it is for the mafia and most other criminal organizations, was bad for pirate business. By doing battle with prey, pirates risked damage to their own ships and injury to their crews. It also made them bigger targets for law enforcement.

I had a role in ‘DodgeBall,’ where I played a pirate who played dodge ball. I’d say 80 to 90 percent of my lines were ‘Garrr’ or ‘Arghh.’ And it was all about what the quality of your ‘Grr-arr’ was.

I grew up on the pirate radio scene which started out as drum ‘n’ bass music. U.K. garage picked up and got bigger on the back end of that.

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.

I think the idealism has always been marketing. Even back in the early days of Apple and the ‘pirate’ mentality, they were building a computer that they wanted to differentiate from IBM and Microsoft.

The Pirate Bay is not in Sweden. It’s a distributed system. We don’t know where the servers are. We gave them to people we trust and they don’t know it’s The Pirate Bay.

I don’t really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I’d be a contrarian pirate.

I see Flattr as a natural extension of Pirate Bay.

In the movies, I loved Errol Flynn whether he was playing a soldier or a pirate. I dug pirates. In fact, my first exposure to live performances was when my paternal grandfather took me to a D’Oyly Carte performance of ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ which impresario Sol Hurok imported from London. I loved every minute of it.

Until this movie I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already, and am ready for this phase of my career.

To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I’m kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I’d say, ‘Your mom would love a painting of you!’ A salesman! I’d hawk paintings.

In all honesty, the reason we did The Pirate Bay was to bring freedom and take back control from a centralized system.

The Pirate Bay has its own trackers. We have more info on the torrents since people upload them to the site and describe them.

I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, ‘Aye-aye, argh and mate.’ But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.

Lego allows all levels of complexity. But a child can do their own thing at any level. They can built a pirate ship, for example, and then mash it up with completely different things.

Ever since I read ‘Kitchen Confidential,’ I saw a little light bulb go off. Being a chef is like being on a pirate ship; it’s not like ‘Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?’ or whatever my impression was as I was growing up.

I was the kid who stared out the window. I fantasized myself on the deck of pirate ships – Cussler at the bridge.

Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He’s one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.

I’ve done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he’s just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he’s got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.

Pirate Bay gives you the opportunity to share information for free, but there is also a need for something where you can share money as well.

‘A Pirate Looks at 40,’ we had to do that song. I’ve been covering that forever.

Grime, in particular, is not really about pirate radio and local raves on top of pubs anymore. There are things I miss about those times but as an up-and-coming MC, back then, I would have loved to have had SoundCloud and YouTube and all these platforms to promote my music.

No, the Pirate Bay is more like sugar – it’s bad for you but you can’t stop using it. Bad because you get sued for it.

I’ve always wanted to play a coach in a movie, just to be the captain of anything in the pirate ship of my bathtub.

The Pirate Bay was never for the money.

I follow Rick Falkvinge, who founded the Swedish Pirate party and was one of the very early adopters of Bitcoin.

Our hope is to deliver an incredibly fun and compelling game that will give the fans more than what they’ve been waiting for, and show a whole new generation of gamers how much fun it is to live the life of a pirate!

When we started out we didn’t expect anything would come from it, definitely not money. We’d pay to go on pirate radio: twenty quid a month just to go on and spit for an hour.

I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already.

We are quite sure the Pirate Bay is legal in Sweden.

I ought to have Mike’s Pirate School. The freshmen, all they get is the bandanna. When you’re a senior, you get the sword and skull and crossbones. For homework, we’ll work pirate maneuvers and stuff like that.

I was not into sci-fi, science fiction, at all. I was into some of the old pirate films with Burt Lancaster and stuff. I liked them.

I really like the pirate look.

My second tattoo was a pirate ship on my arm. My friends and I, you know, we all called ourselves pirates, you know, so we felt like, you know,we was the pirates of the Caribbean around the way.

My favorite movies were ‘Titanic,’ ‘James Bond’ and ‘Pretty Woman’ – people smuggled in pirate copies from China.

Every impression that I do is just a terrible variation on an awful Bill Cosby impression. You’re doing an Australian accent, but it’s just Australian Bill Cosby; or that’s just British Bill Cosby; that’s Pirate Bill Cosby.

If you want to get my attention, wear a pirate outfit.

There’s very little admirable about being a pirate. There’s very little functional about a pirate. There’s very little real about a pirate.