Quotes about Island

It wasn't Ginger's Island, it was Gilligan's Island. Votes: 5

I'm proud of where I'm from. I'm proud of Long Island. Votes: 4

Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind. Votes: 4

Life isn't an Island, you have to have other people in your life. Votes: 4

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island. Votes: 4

The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel. Votes: 4

The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you don't train properly, you'll die. Votes: 4

This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me. Votes: 4

I never watched 'Harper's Island.' Votes: 3

I'm from Long Island. Strong Island. Votes: 3

I've never even been to Long Island Votes: 3

Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination. Votes: 3

The Staten Island Ferry remains a potential terrorist target. Votes: 3

No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island. Votes: 3

[I've worked as a guard at Rikers Island] from 1988 to 1990. Votes: 3

Yes, I was born in Coney Island. The Holy Land. Votes: 3

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island. Votes: 3

I will get married when I build a house in Banana Island Votes: 3

Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota Votes: 3

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad. Votes: 3

The undersea world surrounding Green Island looks just like a water fairyland. Votes: 3

It's amazing. Long Island, I don't know really. It's quite a fascinating area. Votes: 3

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand. Votes: 3

A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry-that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three Mile Island. Votes: 3

I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island. Votes: 3

I love the Lonely Island. I wish there was more Lonely Island movies. Votes: 3

The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected. Votes: 3

Long Island for me, it's producing more chefs coming out of there than Paris. Votes: 3

My story is so boring: Long Island Jewish parents take their daughters to Broadway. Votes: 3

The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island! Votes: 3

I love musical theatre and my dream is to do Once On This Island. Votes: 3

I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design. Votes: 3

Bear Island knows no king but the King in the North, whose name is STARK. Votes: 3

That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it. Votes: 3

There!" Apollo pointed. "Long Island, dead ahead. Let's slow down, dear. 'Dead' is only an expression. Votes: 3

My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories. Votes: 3

I'd been brought up on... American TV: 'Lou Grant,' 'Starsky & Hutch;' 'Gilligan's Island.' Votes: 3

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature. Votes: 3

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation. Votes: 3

When I was Governor of Massachusetts, we worked to get Sable Island gas into New England. Votes: 3

Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day. Votes: 3

[I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it. Votes: 3

Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves. Votes: 3

El Paso in many ways is the Ellis Island for Mexico and much of Latin America. Votes: 3

I had to say no to 'Fantasy Island' back when I was doing 'Bosom Buddies.' Votes: 3

We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships. Votes: 3

I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary. Votes: 3

Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type. Votes: 3

Nervous? He's tighter than Pat Buchanan's sphincter muscle at a 4th of July soiree on Fire Island. Votes: 3

And I've shot in Prince Edward Island winters, I mean, I've shot in some intense, intense temperatures. Votes: 3

The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island. Votes: 3

I haven't been on very many vacations, but I like Coronado Island, and Disney World was fun. Votes: 3

I met [my wife Margot] on Fire Island when I had a house there many years ago. Votes: 3

I was a choir boy for 3 years in high school at St. George's in Newport, Rhode Island. Votes: 3

I graduated from CUNY College of Staten Island with a 3.9 GPA in three and a half years. Votes: 3

I went on Love Island thinking I was quite headstrong but it turned out I was quite emotional. Votes: 3

Larry Jones with Feed the Children and I are partnering in New York and going into Rikers Island. Votes: 3

Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island. Votes: 3

[Long Island] is buoyant, it's on the outskirts of Manhattan, and so they have access to phenomenal restaurants. Votes: 3

We weren't poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn't lavish - just a regular middle-class house. Votes: 3

Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan. Votes: 3

I know I'm not very popular on Long Island. I don't know who's less popular, me or Joey Buttafuoco. Votes: 3

The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service. Votes: 3

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big. Votes: 3

Lobster is not going to be as tasty with ice tea unless that ice tea is from Long Island. Votes: 3

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated. Votes: 3

My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him. Votes: 3

Dominance contests are rare, if they exist at all. During my 13 summers observing the Ellesmere Island pack, I saw none. Votes: 3

I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me. Votes: 3

I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything. Votes: 3

Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; who rules the World-Island controls the world. Votes: 3

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is a wonderful little island with beautiful beaches, a great restaurant culture and friendly, welcoming atmosphere. Votes: 3

In the spring or summer, I like going to the Hamptons or Fire Island. Anywhere I can hear waves, I'm there. Votes: 3

When I went through Marine boot camp in Paris Island, South Carolina, we actually did have bayonets that we trained with. Votes: 3

My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India. Votes: 3

I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration. Votes: 3

It'll be a great day when the seniors have all the baseball caps they need and the Pentagon bombs Gilligan's Island. Votes: 3

Reached only by boat, seaplane and, with less surety, telephone-this is Fire Island, a pile of sand beneath a pile of people. Votes: 3

There are so many different worlds in Long Island. That's why it's so fascinating. Between Great Neck and Montauk, there are 10,000 worlds. Votes: 3

Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off. Votes: 3

Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island. Votes: 3

Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did. Votes: 3

It's strange, because Long Island is still New York, but the farther you go out on Long Island, the more creepy it gets. Votes: 3

James loved Rhode Island, ... He loved the ocean. He would sit in his beach chair for hours and look out at the ocean. Votes: 3

When I die I have visions of fags singing 'Over the Rainbow' and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half mast. Votes: 3

Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it. Votes: 3

My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea. Votes: 3

I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that. Votes: 3

I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles. Votes: 3

I wanted people to believe that there could still be this little undiscovered piece of the world that survives still on Skull Island. Votes: 3

Over the last 20 years, everyone who interviews me feels compelled to ask at least one question about 'The Island of Dr. Moreau.' Votes: 3

Say, Cuttino. What are those Godawful clothes you're wearing? Man, this ain't Rhode Island anymore. You're in the NBA. The girls have teeth here. Votes: 3

I grew up close to Melbourne, about two hours outside, on Phillip Island. It's really small; it's kind of a little summer beach town. Votes: 3

In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island. Votes: 3

Long Island - if you're from out of town, how would I describe it? Well, every girl in my neighborhood looked like Kenny G. Votes: 3

I cannot deny that on a breezy summer's day, Fishers Island is one of the most idyllic places possible for a round of golf. Votes: 3

Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class. Votes: 3

'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class. Votes: 3

Just as you can accept Miss Marple going to tea with the vicar, there's no reason why Long Island can't have a universality to it. Votes: 3

My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side of New York. Votes: 3

If you want to know why the towers of American capitalism are crumbling, I recommend reading 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' by G. Edward Griffin. Votes: 3

The insane asylum on Blackwell's Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out. Votes: 3

Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where people of all backgrounds come to have a good time. Votes: 3

I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast Votes: 3

He looked like someone with a steerage ticket on the titanic. Somebody who'd be standing in line at Ellis Island. Undiluted and old-blooded. Also cute. Votes: 3

The bridge to Coronado Island off San Diego was built because the mob had a hotel there and needed a way to get people out there. Votes: 3

I can't say, maybe it's something in the ingredients, but again, we have a couple of contestants from Long Island and a phenomenal array of chefs. Votes: 3

Growing up in Rhode Island, I dreamed of a career in law enforcement. That hasn't worked out exactly as I had planned, but life seldom does. Votes: 3

We have a culture in Freeport, especially in our football department. We feel that we're the best team on Long Island, in New York, hands down. Votes: 3

I love Topsail Island, which my grandparents helped settle in 1950, despite the racial tensions. I wanted to immortalize my deep connection to this special island forever. Votes: 3

At Ellis Island, I mean, you didn't go there if you arrived in first class. It was only the poorest, the people in the worst shape. Votes: 3

I'm a little Jewish girl from Long Island, but when I listened to Tina Turner, I pictured myself in a mini-dress, dancing like Tina Turner. It's inevitable. Votes: 3

So, you wrecked Alcatraz Island, made Mount St. Helens explode, and displaced half a million people, but at least you're safe." "Yep, that pretty much covers it. Votes: 3

Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody. Votes: 3

Island of Hispaniola once so populous (having a population that I estimated to be more than three million), has now a population of barely two hundred persons. Votes: 3

The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense. Votes: 3

Treasure Island is completed! The entire set of seventeen canvases without one break in my enthusiasm and spirit. Better in every quality than anything I ever did. Votes: 3

I'm not so sure about this wind and howling darkness business," Jace went on, "smells more like landfill to me. You sure you're not from Staten Island? Votes: 3

The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you don't train properly, you'll die. Votes: 3

I did a 'Love Boat!' And based on my trip on the 'Love Boat,' I said, 'I'd just as soon not do 'Fantasy Island.' Votes: 3

I thought to live on an island was like living on a boat. Islands intrigue me. You can see the perimeters of your world. It's a microcosm. Votes: 3

I watched a lot of series. I didn't watch a lot of movies on TV. But I watched Gilligan's Island and Star Trek and all that stuff. Votes: 3

I did a 'Love Boat!' And based on my trip on the 'Love Boat,' I said, 'I'd just as soon not do 'Fantasy Island.'' Votes: 3

My organization, National Action Network (NAN), was on the ground talking and meeting with people in Ferguson, just as we did in Staten Island following Eric Garner's death. Votes: 3

I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are actors.' I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt like this total other universe. Votes: 3

What I'm guilty of is trying the hardest and giving 100 percent of myself and putting my heart and soul into representing the people of Staten Island and Brooklyn. Votes: 3

I founded Friends of the Earth to make the Sierra Club look reasonable. Then I founded the Earth Island Institute to make Friends of the Earth seem reasonable. Votes: 3

I represent Staten Island and Brooklyn, and not just that the financial services industry is important to the U.S., but is disproportionately important to New York City. Votes: 3

Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people's lives every day. Votes: 3

When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island. Votes: 3

I'm a coastal person. I grew up in Long Island and lived in San Diego. I felt landlocked in Pittsburgh. Psychically, it just wasn't the place for me. Votes: 3

I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce. Votes: 3

I don't know the numbers, but roughly half of the people who came through Ellis Island returned home. They came here to make money, not to make history. Votes: 3

On a personal note, I was born in Brooklyn. My folks moved out to Long Island when I was quite young, but once a Brooklynite, always a Brooklynite. Votes: 3

General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York Votes: 3

I was born in Queens and spent many years there. After I got married, I moved to Kew Gardens, then moved to Baldwin, Long Island, where I still reside. Votes: 3

General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York. Votes: 3

I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog. Votes: 3

I never knew my grandfather. He died the year before I was born. But as a child, he did, of course, those wonderful illustrations, 'Treasure Island,' and whatnot. Votes: 3

I did with my wife a comic book for the Raynham Hall Museum in Long Island. They sell the book every single time a busload of kids comes in. Votes: 3

We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains. Votes: 3

And I really wanted a driver's license. I was 43, had my learner's permit and had failed the test once already - but that was in Riverhead, on Long Island. Votes: 3

I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started. Votes: 3

As with Three Mile Island, the hysteria of the media and the political class over the Deepwater spill is likely to lead to increased risk and adverse environmental tradeoffs. Votes: 3

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing. Votes: 3

I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan's Island, walking the beach listening to the song of the ocean. Votes: 3

I don't like it to be compared to 'Survivor.' The idea of 'Survivor' is to kill each other off to win the prize. There's no killing in Gilligan's Island. Votes: 3

The beauty of Hawaii probably surpasses other places. I like the Big Island and the two mountains, Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, where you can look out at the stars. Votes: 3

But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up the assumed role of insanity. Votes: 3

The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me. Votes: 3

I'll never forget the modelling shoot I did in the Bahamas on a pink sand beach at Harbour Island. It felt like I'd just landed in paradise; it was so beautiful. Votes: 3

People are hypocrites. If you ask them what they want to see on TV, they'll tell you they want better quality programming. And then what do they watch? 'Gilligan's Island.' Votes: 3

I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year. Votes: 3

I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return. Votes: 3

Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going down there all my life, to that whole area. Votes: 3

This is a new point in my life, and things are totally changing. But like the sunsets I saw on Tybee Island, the miles I've already gone are going to stay with me. Votes: 3

I've been around the surf culture since I was a kid. I grew up in a beach town in Rhode Island. Then eventually I lived in Dana Point, Calif., a real surf hotbed. Votes: 3

Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the fish are smaller than the pencils we use to count them. Votes: 3

I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place. Votes: 3

I grew up in Bedford, N.Y., and it was close enough to Jones Beach on Long Island that every summer my mother would pack the car for the day, and we would drive to the beach! Votes: 3

Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne. Votes: 2

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. Votes: 2

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. Votes: 2

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. Votes: 2

The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island. Votes: 2

If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair. Votes: 2

Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property. Votes: 2

Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like going from hot dogs and hamburgers to beef stroganoff, or from ice cream in a cone to creme brulee. Votes: 2

Traveling in Europe made me understand that America has an island mentality: No one exists except us. There's a whole other world out there, but most Americans - all they know is America, the marketing plan. Votes: 2

Puerto Rico has a stray dog problem. Tens of thousands of homeless canines - hundreds of thousands, by some estimates - live and die on the streets and beaches all over this Caribbean island of almost four million people. Votes: 2

I've backpacked to countries like Italy and Turkey and observed beautiful scenery, but then I realized that beauty was always very close to me. It is here in Belitung Island, where the rivers, beaches and the terrain captivate my attention most. Votes: 2

Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy. I keep myself surrounded by them as soon as they start coming to the island from Canada, and after that when they come from the fields in La Connor, not far from where I live. Votes: 2

In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show. Votes: 2

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. Votes: 2

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. Votes: 2

I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama! Votes: 2

I was first imprisoned in Pretoria, and then, thereafter, I was taken to Robben Island. I stayed there for a couple of weeks. I was taken back to Pretoria when I was charged in the Rivonia trial, when I was then sent to Robben Island for life. Votes: 2

It's surreal to think that I own this beautiful island. It doesn't feel like anyone can own Lanai. What it feels like to me is this really cool 21st-century engineering project, where I get to work with the people of Lanai to create a prosperous and sustainable Eden in the Pacific. Votes: 2

Looking out over the port of Dover, with the endless steam of boats coming in and out, every British citizen is reminded that belonging here has never been about blood or genes. It's simply about being at home on this discrete island and being aware of the privileges and responsibilities that brings. Votes: 2

According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in 2008, paid an average tax rate of just 18.2 percent that year. That's about the same rate paid by a single truck driver in Rhode Island. It's not right, and we need to restore fairness to our tax code. Votes: 2

I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit in the wilderness in New Zealand. I stayed in a warden's hut two-and-a-half hours off the Routeburn Track through the fjords on the South Island. It was early winter, so there was no electricity or running water. Votes: 2

The best meal I've had was in Tavarua, an island in Fiji. It was just before sunset. A bunch of guys had just caught all this yellow fin tuna; they literally brought this huge wooden table down to the sand, pulled the tuna from the boat, dropped it on top of the table, pulled the skin off and sliced the tuna up. Votes: 2

I was in juvenile detention center, and I was in Rikers Island. And there was an anthology written by the inmates called 'The Pen,' and I - you know, I had a crush on a girl, and she left me when I was incarcerated. And I found this poem in this anthology that talked about having your heart broken and being incarcerated. Votes: 2

No man is an island... Votes: 0

Englishmen must have an island. Votes: 0

Seattle is this curious liberal island. Votes: 0

No man is an island unto himself. Votes: 0

Welcome to the island of misfit toys Votes: 0

I grew up on a tiny little island. Votes: 0

An island of surety in a changing world. Votes: 0

Old age is an island surrounded by death. Votes: 0

A bird, music and food -desert island items Votes: 0

That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their Votes: 0

Key West for me was a tropical island paradise. Votes: 0

Not only England, but every Englishman is an island. Votes: 0

No man is an island. No man stands alone. Votes: 0

No man is an island; but some are peninsulas. Votes: 0

Every island to a child is a treasure island. Votes: 0

But he knows that no man is an island. Votes: 0

Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island. Votes: 0

You're an island of reality in an ocean of diarrhea. Votes: 0

Passion is our ground, our island - do others exist? Votes: 0

Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach. Votes: 0

New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.' Votes: 0

Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery. Votes: 0

The brain is an island in an osmotically homogeneous sea. Votes: 0

I know enough to know that no man is an island. Votes: 0

The Eightfold Path is ordering the island of the tonal completely. Votes: 0

Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics. Votes: 0

Jamaica is an island that is filled with so much culture. Votes: 0

For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse. Votes: 0

...after all, what is a planet but an island in space? Votes: 0

Ireland is but an island off the coast of Cape Clear. Votes: 0

And a rock feels no pain; And an island never cries. Votes: 0

I just need to go to like an island or something, Votes: 0

No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas. Votes: 0

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. Votes: 0

I'm an island boy, so I love my reggae and soca music. Votes: 0

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. Votes: 0

Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland. Votes: 0

No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima. Votes: 0

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. Votes: 0

Everyone on this island wants something kept quiet. I want to roar Votes: 0

Material creation begins in a tiny corner of a large island called imagination. Votes: 0

The sea which we think of separating the two island actually joins them. Votes: 0

On an island, anything can happen. In a crime novel, it usually does. Votes: 0

Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America. Votes: 0

For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet. Votes: 0

The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm. Votes: 0

In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves. Votes: 0

We may be a small island, but we are not a small people. Votes: 0

I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree. Votes: 0

No man is an island. To fight the good fight we need help. Votes: 0

Iran is an island of stability in a turbulent corner of the world Votes: 0

Planet Earth is our shared island, let us join forces to protect it Votes: 0

Our girl's going to Capri for fun. We've got an Italian island vibe. Votes: 0

Each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. Votes: 0

Park hill staten island seal, rock the reel to reel we high hills deep Votes: 0

I don't want to be the only survivor on the island with no smoke. Votes: 0

My dream is to go spend a week on some island with no phone. Votes: 0

The average millionaire can't tell you who got thrown off the island last night. Votes: 0

Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called 'Someday I'll.' Votes: 0

That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage. Votes: 0

I want to make enough money to buy an island. Something modest, like Australia. Votes: 0

Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island. Votes: 0

Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence. Votes: 0

...we’re just kids growing up on an island, doing bad things in pretty places. Votes: 0

There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. Votes: 0

England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy. Votes: 0

Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island Votes: 0

You know, I'm a modern day Harry Belafonte; I got the swagger of the island. Votes: 0

I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia. Votes: 0

What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island? Votes: 0

The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude. Votes: 0

The odd thing about 'Cripple of Inishmaan' is it's never actually been performed on the island. Votes: 0

Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain. Votes: 0

Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. Votes: 0

There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true. Votes: 0

The odd thing about Cripple of Inishmaan is its never actually been performed on the island. Votes: 0

Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome. Votes: 0

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep. Votes: 0

All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust? Votes: 0

In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire. Votes: 0

There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station. Votes: 0

Although no man is an island, you can make quite an effective raft out of six. Votes: 0

I felt alone out there, like I was on a desert island. I felt like Gilligan. Votes: 0

I once owned a home on an island off the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Votes: 0

My great strength is knowing who I am and where I come from - my island. Votes: 0

What luxury would I take to a desert island? A mirror. It's true. I'd miss me. Votes: 0

When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea. Votes: 0

I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game. Votes: 0

A good leader will seek the wisdom of others. After all, no man is an island! Votes: 0

As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America. Votes: 0

I cannot live on an island of prosperity when I'm surrounded by a sea of misery. Votes: 0

Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone. Votes: 0

There's a small island, inhabited in the South Pacific that I will try to swim to. Votes: 0

All men leave the harbour of youth, but only few reach the very far island of wisdom! Votes: 0

A room of one's own isn't nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one's own. Votes: 0

The Castro government is disproportionately white given the color of the island. It doesn't look like Cuba. Votes: 0

Personality is a person among persons. There is no personality of one man on a desert island. Votes: 0

Fame is an island, and right before the castaway, the getaway of being known without being known. Votes: 0

She has mischievious moments in when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island... Votes: 0

England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea. Votes: 0

Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch. Votes: 0

California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands. Votes: 0

I don't feel like I need to be on an island to be enjoying myself and relaxing. Votes: 0

We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island. Votes: 0

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind. Votes: 0

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf. Votes: 0

We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise. Votes: 0

When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.' Votes: 0

We have two companies of MARINES running all over this island and thousands of ARMY troops doing nothing! Votes: 0

Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after. Votes: 0

Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey. Votes: 0

Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint. Votes: 0

I just remembered when I was an adolescent girl wanting to leave my island and find my calling. Votes: 0

An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight. Votes: 0

When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient. Votes: 0

Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire. Votes: 0

This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun. Votes: 0

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will. Votes: 0

Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory. Votes: 0

I haven't bought anything excessive. I do plan on buying an island and filling it with baby tigers, though. Votes: 0

Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining. Votes: 0

Rick Owens is my desert island designer. I could live in his clothes alone, and I collect Ossie Clark. Votes: 0

Thus did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true. Votes: 0

Jamaica's probably the most dominant island as far as influence goes, as far as music and dancing and culture. Votes: 0

The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision. Votes: 0

I live on an island, and my community is served by a ferry that goes three times a day. Votes: 0

My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize Votes: 0

I rented an island for [Kanye West] birthday. A far, far away place where no one can find us. Votes: 0

Sailing to an island unknown Failing to find your way home you walk under a sea leagues beneath us Votes: 0

Life is constantly teaching us that we are mirrors of one another and that no one is an island! Votes: 0

Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. Votes: 0

That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth. Votes: 0

We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness. Votes: 0

I must have the sun and warmth. I need to be in the sun - I'm a true island baby. Votes: 0

No longer will you be a weird Robinson Crusoe, imprisoned on an island of night surrounded by oceans of death. Votes: 0

Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery. Votes: 0

As known unknowns become known; unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. Votes: 0

Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed. Votes: 0

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9. Votes: 0

The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island. Votes: 0

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9 Votes: 0

[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. Votes: 0

Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island. Votes: 0

I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again. Votes: 0

There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me. Votes: 0

and there was a beautiful view but nobody could see cause everybody on the island was saying look at me Votes: 0

Who gives an island as a gift? I frowned. I hadn't realized Edward's extreme generosity was a learned behavior. Bella Votes: 0

Every man's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscience. Votes: 0

The truth is, until you know any different, the island is enough. Actually, I know different. And it's still enough. Votes: 0

They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska. Votes: 0

If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I'd need: food, shelter, and a grip. Votes: 0

Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place. Votes: 0

Don Juan speaks of the island of the tonal as something that's in the middle of the ocean ... the nagual. Votes: 0

The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values. Votes: 0

Don Juan speaks of the island of the tonal as something that's in the middle of the ocean ... the nagual. Votes: 0

You put a guy on a desert island, he'll do it to mud, a chicken, a barrel, anything, a knothole. Votes: 0

Writes have an island, a center of refuge, within themselves. It is the mind's anchorage, the soul's Great Good Place. Votes: 0

No man is an island. You can ask people for help and they can ask for your help in return. Votes: 0

I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert. Votes: 0

In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement, Votes: 0

Your reason is your friend. It defends the island of your awareness. But you don't want your reason to rule everything. Votes: 0

I have to find a place to hideAn island in the seaSurrounded by a racing tideWhere I can live with me Votes: 0

I like to be grounded by nature, go hiking... go to an isolated island that's not glamorous and touristy at all. Votes: 0

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed. Votes: 0

... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world. Votes: 0

Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish. Votes: 0

England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children. Votes: 0

You were a stone wall, a fort in high, unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach. Votes: 0

They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate. Votes: 0

If you want to take the island, then burn your boats. With absolute commitment come the insights that create real victory. Votes: 0

Vodka! That's a child's drink, why am I drinking this stupid drink, oh and why am I on a traffic island? Votes: 0

They kissed in the middle of the sidewalk, letting the crowds of people flow around them like water around an island. Votes: 0

No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne. Votes: 0

A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens. Votes: 0

Voyaging great distances -- through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains -- is all about finding ourselves. Votes: 0

A mother's love is like an island, In life's ocean vast and wide, A peaceful, quiet shelter, From the restless, rising tide. Votes: 0

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being. Votes: 0

Word has traveled quickly that just because you're on island doesn't mean you have to be stranded---as long as you have cash. Votes: 0

In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out. Votes: 0

I'm from an island, so I've always been near the water. I don't think I could live somewhere far from the sea. Votes: 0

In terms of the fantasy wedding thing, I can kind of cross off the island beach thing. Maybe at sunset or something. Votes: 0

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.' Votes: 0

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things... Votes: 0

I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother. Votes: 0

The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth. Votes: 0

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil. Votes: 0

You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that. Votes: 0

I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible. Votes: 0

For us Australians, Singapore also represents sacred soil. Almost 2000 Australians died here in the defense of your island country and our neighborhood. Votes: 0

A lot of people prefer to be alone. They would rather be a palm tree on an island. I don't get it. Votes: 0

The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island. Votes: 0

My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream. Votes: 0

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life. Votes: 0

In the world of highways, a beautiful landscape means: an island of beauty connected by a long line with other islands of beauty. Votes: 0

Each man is an island unto himself. But though a sea of difference may divide us, an entire world of commonality lies beneath. Votes: 0

I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found. Votes: 0

The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of ignorance. Votes: 0

The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it. Votes: 0

We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night. Votes: 0

I have never been part of a scene. I've always been a bit of an island really, but I am fine with that. Votes: 0

This is only a small part of the totality. From this island earth we see only a fragment of creation and its knowledge. Votes: 0

I've always felt England was a great place for a comic to work. It's an island and the audience can't run very far. Votes: 0

And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me. Votes: 0

There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write. Votes: 0

If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all. Votes: 0

For me when I was growing up, some of the happiest times were when we went to a small island called Nantucket off Massachusetts. Votes: 0

If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island. Votes: 0

Better Than You island doesn't exist. And if it does it's full of idiots, looking over their shoulder for the next idiot to arrive. Votes: 0

Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters. Votes: 0

The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards. Votes: 0

The thing about impressing your girlfriend is that when you do something like a private island in Fiji, it's all downhill from that point. Votes: 0

The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island. Votes: 0

I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic. Votes: 0

I love being naked. I do everything in the nude, even the gardening! We're Cuban, and it's a hot island. Why not go nude? Votes: 0

'Teen Beach Movie' was a lot of fun because we were in Puerto Rico on an island - you can't even call it work! Votes: 0

Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind. Votes: 0

Teen Beach Movie' was a lot of fun because we were in Puerto Rico on an island - you can't even call it work! Votes: 0

[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it. Votes: 0

I took my son to Coney island, I said "wanna go in the crazy house?", he said "save your money we'll be home soon"! Votes: 0

In no way can words convey the nagual. But they open up the possibility. They allow an admission on the island of the tonal. Votes: 0

My friend told me he was going to a fancy dress party as an Italian island. I said to him, ‘Don't be Sicily'. Votes: 0

If I was on an island, just for melody, I would take albums by the Stones, AC/DC and the Beach Boys' Smiley Smile. Votes: 0

I have a massage when I want to relax. I love being pampered. I love island massages when you're outside in the fresh air. Votes: 0

Most humans were on one big island, to the fairies, and that island was adrift on a sea called I Totally Don’t Care. Votes: 0

A university should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher levels of knowledge without sharing any of this knowledge with its neighbours. Votes: 0

In our interdependent world, our neighbors are not only on our street, but can be ten thousand miles away on an island in rising seas. Votes: 0

I have to think that somewhere on some little island in the Pacific, there's someone's who's great, but I'm probably never going to hear him. Votes: 0

I come from a very warm island, where colors are very important, very vibrant, and obviously the color has been an influence on my work. Votes: 0

I realized I was on a something island. 'How did I get here,' I wondered, surrounded by Nothing, "and how can I get back? Votes: 0

My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician. Votes: 0

The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island. Votes: 0

Let's hope I never end up on a deserted island, because I could never make a decision on which three CDs to take with me. Votes: 0

Bali is one of my favorite places in the world. In one of my past lives, I believe I was living on the island of Bali." Votes: 0

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor. Votes: 0

You'll find that you will be able to reorder the island of your tonal so that it's in good shape - logical, orderly, neat, and well-defined. Votes: 0

How amazing that the language of a few thousand savages living on a fog-encrusted island in the North Sea should become the language of the world. Votes: 0

Bali is one of my favorite places in the world. In one of my past lives, I believe I was living on the island of Bali. Votes: 0

Don't tell her that your moms knew right away what it was, that she recognized its smell from the year the United States invaded your island." Votes: 0

I don't want to be an island. I want to be more of a tourist attraction. You stop here, I take your money and you go. Votes: 0

Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are. Votes: 0

For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in one direction very much. Votes: 0

England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe. Votes: 0

It was then I thought of Corsica, the place we had discovered together. I craved the wind, the sun and salt, the simplicity of the island. Votes: 0

The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines. Votes: 0

The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years." Votes: 0

When you sit, you've put a place on the island of the tonal for the possibility of your thoughts stopping for a short period of time. Votes: 0

I used to run around barefoot and climb trees and pick fruit and sell it on the side of the road like a real island girl. Votes: 0

Younger Cuban Americans who have decided to go to the island always come back telling me "that isn't the country my grandparents have told me about." Votes: 0

The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years. Votes: 0

I would like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world. Votes: 0

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology. Votes: 0

Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge. Votes: 0

If I were packing for a deserted island, I would bring sunscreen, a water purifier, something to start a fire with, my sister, and something for protection. Votes: 0

The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength, - the floating bulwark of our island. Votes: 0

Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties. Votes: 0

A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place not be a real paradise? Votes: 0

Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor shelter nor hope. Votes: 0

[Madame Nhu was] the Sandra Dee of South Vietnam. If I were cast on a desert island with her, I would quickly make friends with the natives. Votes: 0

I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders. Votes: 0

Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbor and playing in the beautiful parks. Votes: 0

Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America. Votes: 0

Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can be who they really are Votes: 0

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time. Votes: 0

It is time I came back to my real lifeAfter this voyage to an island with no name,Where I lay down at sunrise drunk with light. Votes: 0

The secret of our success on planet Earth is space. Lots of it. Our solar system is a tiny island of activity in an ocean of emptiness. Votes: 0

Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake... No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a sea of misery. Votes: 0

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island. Votes: 0

OnceThere was a quiet island,With a name.You must believe me When I say that sunlight, Impure but beautiful, Broke upon the bay, silveredThe unrepentant, burning moon. Votes: 0

Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island. Votes: 0

Theseus made unscrupulous use of Ariadne (whom he left on an island where Bacchus later found her-I always think that really meant she took to drink, poor girl). Votes: 0

I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people. Votes: 0

It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence that can be seen from space. Votes: 0

When the ship is sinking and you're forced to choose sides, the new solution is to jump from island to island to island. You don't have to pick. Votes: 0

That's such a great thing about New York, after growing up in a place and being there for twenty plus years, there's still a whole island to discover. Votes: 0

An island Utopia in a modern, busy, everyday world. A land where there are neither rich nor poor. A heaven on earth - without a fence around it. Votes: 0

Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind. Votes: 0

The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda... But the [Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group] are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda. Votes: 0

There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky; and every one of them different. Votes: 0

Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism. Votes: 0

I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island. Votes: 0

She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome. Votes: 0

I'd left Hawaii twice in my life, so I'd been on an island my whole life. I had no clue. I didn't know how to live in a city. Votes: 0

You have an utterly sincere glance when you look around after you are shipwrecked. You weep a long time on an island when you realize what's happened to you. Votes: 0

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded. Votes: 0

And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people. Votes: 0

Same way I have my entire life. Keep my family and friends close. My Latino friends close. I visit the island [Puerto Rico] as often as I humanly can. Votes: 0

From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no human activity is an island. Votes: 0

Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon. Votes: 0

I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City . Votes: 0

I identify with my culture, but I am happy to be living on a tolerant, intellectual island where I can deal with Dostoyevsky and Sartre, both great influences for me. Votes: 0

We're all trying to get to the same island, whether you swim, fly, surf, or skydive in, it doesn't matter. What matters is when the red light [camera] comes on. Votes: 0

If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground. Votes: 0

The one-handed palmer can always reach higher, they say. They may be right, but the result is that nearly every line-out is like a tropical island - all waving palms. Votes: 0

A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before. Votes: 0

Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance. Votes: 0

It was a palace, made entirely of gold, sitting on an island of silver snow at the very top of the world. East of the sun, and west of the moon. Votes: 0

Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God. Votes: 0

There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets. Votes: 0

Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate. Votes: 0

If you are in a remote desert island, let your best hope be your own efforts to build a ship instead of waiting for a ship to appear among the fogs! Votes: 0

Every man needs to find a peak, a mountain top or a remote island of his own choosing that he reaches under his own power alone in his own good time. Votes: 0

Dr. Warren was of the mental build of the man whose life would be interesting and full of outlook if it were spent on a desert island or in the Bastille. Votes: 0

The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted pine trees all over the place! Votes: 0

For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island. Votes: 0

Fact is, famous people say fame stinks because they love it so - like a secret restaurant or holiday island they don't want the hoi polloi to get their grubby paws on. Votes: 0

You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive. Votes: 0

The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble. Votes: 0

I'm a small-town boy who comes from a traditional family on a tiny island called Belitung. I may not know where I'm going, but I'll always know where to come home to. Votes: 0

Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don't have enough brains to have your good taste. Votes: 0

Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here. Votes: 0

I'm not a big Austen reader. I wouldn't say I dislike her, but if I had to choose between her and Eliot to bring to a desert island, it would definitely be Eliot. Votes: 0

I think that's a mercy of this island, actually, that it won't give us our terrible memories for long, but let us keep the good ones for as long as we want them. Votes: 0

You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year. Votes: 0

Most of the volcanoes are pretty far away. You have to go to, God knows, Alaska. Or you have to go to the Southern Indies or you have to go to a specific island. Votes: 0

I have a cartoon where the guy is pretty much, he's a regular-sized guy, but he's the size of the island. He's saying no man is an island, but I come pretty damn close. Votes: 0

Yeah? Rock 'n' Roll is fast, you know. If all goes according to plan I could be in rehab next thursday. Tuesday week I'll be living on an island with a small Indian boy. Votes: 0

We just sat there and watched the plane pass the island, and it never came back, he said. I could see it on the radar. It makes you feel terrible. Life was cheap in war. Votes: 0