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Quotes About Rigging

The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.
~ Richard Serra
The Fraud Act 2006 makes it perfectly clear that Libor rigging is prosecutable as a criminal offence.
~ Emily Thornberry
A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam.
~ John Millington Synge
The Easter holydays are kept up on shore during three days; and being a Catholic vessel, the crew had advantage of them. For two successive days, while perched up in the rigging, covered with tar and engaged in our disagreeable work, we saw these fellows going ashore in the morning, and coming off again at night, in high spirits. So much for being Protestants. There's no danger of Catholicism's spreading in New England; Yankees can't afford the time to be Catholics.
~ Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Tie telltales (made from yarn) to the shrouds as high up as possible.
~ David Seidman
Any of the social changes in American history are because people thought there was injustice. We have to show that this corporate welfare and cronyism is unjust - and that it's not only rigging the system so people get wealthy who don't deserve to get wealthy.
~ Charles Koch
As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump promised to 'fix the rigged system.' By 'fix,' he apparently meant rigging it to permanently benefit billionaires like himself.
~ Tom Steyer
How does allowing China to constantly rig trade in its favor advance the core conservative goal of making markets more efficient?
~ Robert Lighthizer
love as if you're riding through the storm of the century. You surf the waves, ride the crests, sail through moonlit waters with ice in your rigging… but you love each other as you go. You love each other as if every day is the only day….
~ Luanne Rice
My time is always divided when I prepare for a wire walk. First I dream, technically and artistically, and then I go to work, and I am the master rigger, climbing trees and ladders and constructing. Only then I change my cap and become the performer.
~ Philippe Petit
Over time, the repetition, Donald Trump's lies about election rigging, have become a form of background noise, more of the same. And this is a propaganda technique, whether Trump knows it or not.
~ Brian Stelter
There is so much to sailing a ship. There's about a thousand different lines on a brig ship, and knowing what each one of those does, it takes a long time, and that's why you have these cabin boys that start on the ship, and they learn throughout the years, and that's why it takes so long to captain one.
~ Tom Holland
the history of the Gilded Age delivers one certainty, it is this: there is no way to access infinite wealth without rigging the system. No one becomes a billionaire honestly.
~ Sarah Chayes
I've seen my fair share of drama over the years of Children In Need. I had a close brush with mortality in 2009 when a chain collapsed from the studio rigging. I was in mid-spout to camera when I heard an enormous crash behind me - a ton of steel had come hurtling down and smashed to the ground a few feet away.
~ Terry Wogan
Oh, and stay out of our elections. After I speak tomorrow, you'll have all you can handle to keep rigging your own.
~ Bill Clinton
Do not ever test me again, Andrei," I say. "Oh, and stay out of our elections. After I speak tomorrow, you'll have all you can handle to keep rigging your own. Now get the hell out of my country.
~ Bill Clinton
But that darkness was licked up by the fierce flames, which at intervals forked forth from the sooty flues, and illuminated every lofty rope in the rigging, as with the famed Greek fire. The burning ship drove on, as if remorselessly commissioned to some vengeful deed.
~ Herman Melville
The trouble with Ascendants is that they try to rig every game. Of course, we delight in . . . uncertainty." A
~ Steven Erikson
I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really learning more and more. That's how it started. And also in magic, of course. With a piece of rope, you can do magic.
~ Philippe Petit
They would have inspected the bread room, which would soon be filled with casks of flour and biscuits; the gunner's room, where powder and shot were stored; and the steerage area and tiller room. Making their way topside, the ship's officers would have checked the rigging and eyed ropes and lines and masts and spars and surveyed the ship's boat, turned turtle on the upper deck.
~ Kieran Doherty
Enoch had the same way with his memories as a ship's master with his rigging—a compulsion to tighten what was slack, mend what was frayed, caulk what leaked, and stow, or throw overboard, what was to no purpose.
~ Neal Stephenson
Price Correction, The share price of SAIL is likely to touch Rs.75 on coming Monday, and internet service be closed down by instruction of capital market riggers and web trading platform of brokerage houses be intentionally clamp down so that intraday short selling small players are not able to transact
~ Lakshheish M Patel
masts, and rigging, practically every exposed surface of the ship except for the sails.
~ Laurence Bergreen
the weary sailors studied the sea for buried shoals, examined the rigging, dried the dew from the lines
~ Laurence Bergreen