Sicily could only be an island, less by the caprice of nature than by her own insolence. As though she might have… — Marlena De Blasi Copy Share Image
Once winter sets in I must have the sun and warmth. I need to be in the sun - I'm a true… — Narciso Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I know very little about my great grandparents, who came through Ellis Island in the early twentieth century, settled in Baltimore, and… — Claire Saffitz Copy Share Image
“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“The northern side of the island is a sheer granite cliff which sets its jaw stiffly against the ocean below.” — M.L. Stedman Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I went to Bali a lot, but it's a long, long way from England. Which is why, when we… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I wanna dog..but I don't like picking up shit off pavements. Hmmmm? Gonna live on a island...no Pavements. — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
The diversity in the CNN makeup room - it's like Ellis Island! No, it's like Noah's Ark: there are two of everything. — Ana Navarro Copy Share Image
“-No man-, proclaimed Donne, -is an island-, and he was wrong. if we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I didn't like Christchurch when I visited a long time ago. I had been camping on the outskirts of some gorgeous little… — Monica Galetti Copy Share Image
Bermuda - the waters are calm and shallow and are excellent for snorkelling. I loved St, George's on the tip of the… — Ashley Roberts Copy Share Image
An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In 1874, Mary Fraser accompanied her husband Hugh to Hong Kong, arriving hours after a typhoon had wrecked the island. Some 10,000… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
One of the flashpoints of the grand war between Athens and Sparta, a millennium after Helen first caused trouble for the Mediterranean… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
'Strong Island' is slang for Long Island, New York. And it really grew out of - what may surprise people, it really… — Yance Ford Copy Share Image
I always like to look for adventure when I go away. I have gone on several horse adventures with my wife -… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no… — Alexa Ray Joel Copy Share Image
“But when a place has been an island the memory of water lingers, and of water magic, no matter how far away… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.' — Leos Carax Copy Share Image
The truth is, until you know any different, the island is enough. Actually, I know different. And it's still enough. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
'Once on This Island' is one of my favorite musicals, so to have the lead in that would be great. — Shanice Williams Copy Share Image
The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“How, in the first place, did a peripheral island rise from primitive squalor to world domination?” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When I grew up, we went to Coney Island and Central Park. We'd find our way to the water and watch the… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
Let's hope I never end up on a deserted island, because I could never make a decision on which three CDs to… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
The United States' flag should only fly in Cuba when the island is free, when dissent is embraced, and when democracy is… — Bob Menendez Copy Share Image
If I had to live on a desert island, and somebody gave me a chicken, there's no way I'd kill it -… — Anita Dobson Copy Share Image
Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of… — Jack Bruce Copy Share Image
I've been around the surf culture since I was a kid. I grew up in a beach town in Rhode Island. Then… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“When I'm in pain I want everyone I love on the island with me, sitting around the fire, getting drunk on coconut… — Melanie Gideon Copy Share Image
I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about… — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
My Pacific Island genes will never allow me to be the most ripped, but I think I can get pretty close to… — Joseph Parker Copy Share Image
“Even beyond the worry that I would molest him at some point (which I knew wouldn’t happen) – it was the idea… — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map;… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“It has been raining here for ten years.I keep an accurate record of time and can state this with no fear of… — Alastair Bruce Copy Share Image
I have discovered France's best-kept secret. Reunion is an island of some 970 square miles situated in the Indian Ocean south-west of… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
No country can be an island unto itself or world unto itself. Not even the biggest country. — Lee Hsien Loong Copy Share Image
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… — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
