Robert Kurson Quotes

I think if I could be a man in any time period, I would be a pirate. You know, go climbing in the rigging, sword fighting. I'd like to do that.

Once you discover that real pirates are more interesting than fictional ones, you can't look away.

Where there is a sea there are pirates.

Pirates, me hearties, are the Patronus of the freelancer.

I love pirates, and I'm a big fan of the Johnny Depp films.

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!

I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.

Pirates have always fascinated me.

Pirates worked to avoid violence and fighting.

It is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.

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

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

It's not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.

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.

Real pirates were better than in movies, more daring and terrifying and cunning than any screenwriter could imagine. They operated during the Golden Age of Piracy, from 1650 to 1720.

I have been interested in pirates since I was about 8 years old. The idea of people deciding, sometimes at a moment's notice, to throw over the rules and restrictions of society - it was just irresistible.

Pirate was going to be my middle name, but then my uncle had a problem with it because pirates are bad.

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.

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.

You can't go wrong with pirates. I mean, they're pirates. It's what everyone wants to be when they're a kid. Ninja, assassin, or a pirate - and now you can kind of be all three.

I'm a big fan of pirates in general.

The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.

The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along swaggering boisterously. His face is weather beaten, he wears a hooded sash with a silver hat about his head... The autumn wind is a Raider, pillaging just for fun.

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

I've always had a fascination with pirates. You know, I've written a song completely inspired by I want this to feel like pirates, you know, fighting together, made a music video about it, yada, yada.