She published two volumes of short stories in the 1990s before releasing her first novel, The Revenge of Maria, in 1998, followed by The Heart Does Not Bend in 2002. An out lesbian, she is the cofounder and managing editor of Sister Vision Press, and has edited a number of anthologies,...
He formed an alliance of pirates and blockaded the port of Charles Town, South Carolina, ransoming the port's inhabitants. He then ran Queen Anne's Revenge aground on a sandbar near Beaufort, North Carolina. He parted company with Bonnet and settled in Bath, North Carolina, also known as ...
Mary Read is today remembered as one of the only two women which records can be found in historical records of the age today known as Golden Age of Piracy. Find out more about this fierce fighter who served on the crew of the John Rackham’s famous pirate ship “The Revenge”. Women P...
Perhaps it is because they allcontain fantastic stories. His plays are full of exciting sto-ry lines and lessons about morality(道德).Hamlet, for example, is about revenge(复仇) andalso about how difficult it is to take action sometimes,even when itis important to do so. The famous quote(...
252. “Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.”– Don Vito Corleone, The Godfather 253. “No, I am your father.”– Darth Vader, Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back 254. “There’s no one I’d rather be, than me!”– Ralph, Wreck-It Ralph 255. “There...
"If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?" In these lines, Shylock speaks of the commonality between peoples, here between the minority Jewish population and majority Christian...
After losing her mother in her late teens, Anne had to take care of her father's household. There are a lot of stories about her teen years; some of them even claim that she murdered a servant girl with a knife, and there is one about a young man that she put in the hospital for...
“So this is how liberty dies…with thunderous applause. —Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: Episode III”– Revenge of the Sith, 2005 “We could not talk or talk forever and still find things to not talk about.”– Best in Show (2000) ...
“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.” “It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.” “He who is devoid of the power to ...
Anne Hathaway made some sacrifices of her own to be a convincing character. She said, "I had to be obsessive about it — the idea was to look near death. Looking back on the whole experience — and I don't judge it in any way — it was definitely a little nuts. It was definitely...