Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella were two equal entities under the Def Island umbrellas. — Damon Dash Copy Share Image
I was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Long Island, right outside of Manhattan. — Matthew Koma Copy Share Image
A room of one's own isn't nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one's own. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I am a rock, I am an island. And a rock feels no pain. And an island never cries. — Simon And Garfunkel Copy Share Image
I went to public school on Long Island, and it seemed every year we were being taught that you had a right… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“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.” — Doug Cooper Copy Share Image
Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbor and… — Tammin Sursok Copy Share Image
For us Australians, Singapore also represents sacred soil. Almost 2000 Australians died here in the defense of your island country and our neighborhood. — Michael Jeffery Copy Share Image
As the son of a Cuban refugee and cousin and nephew to many Cubans on the island, I cringe when Americans visit… — Phil Lord Copy Share Image
Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when I'm on the boat. You never separate work from… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Of course, we haven't spoke to anybody at Island Records about this yet, but you should go ahead and print this, because… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
“The ocean was still and gray as a post-consumer touchscreen when she first spotted the island from the boat’s railing. A shade,… — Alex Livingston Copy Share Image
My hair journey involved a lot of trying to figure out how to deal with my hair as a bi-racial girl in… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
You think about the Bahamas, you think it's this island full of beaches and chilling on the beach, but there's a lot… — Buddy Hield Copy Share Image
“While still a student, Napoleon had written on the last page of his geography book: "St. Helena. Small island." This may have… — Akutagawa Ryunosuke Copy Share Image
We were on Island Records for five or six years and we kinda just got tired of them always wanting to use… — Jess Margera Copy Share Image
Well, if you are planning a Caribbean vacation, you can start by booking it to this warm and friendly island paradise as… — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share Image
The tropical island of Puerto Rico couldn't be more different than America's rust belt or the mountains of Appalachia, but here too… — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share Image
“A letter from a French cleric to Nicholas of St. Albans, written c. 1178, rehearsed what was already a familiar perception: Your… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Meradinis! Turtle Island! It was a little corner of chaos! This was the scene the speeding black ship had left behind three… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
“I never thought about a job in astronomy until I saw a job advert advertising one. It was in the Canary Islands,… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
Land! An island! We devoured it greedily with our eyes and woke the others, who tumbled out drowsily and stared in all… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
The little fishing boat anchors right off the shore of Gili Meno. There are no docks here on this island. You have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Or I would be the rain itself, wreathing over the island, mingling in the quiet of moist places, filling its pores with… — Richard Nelson Copy Share Image
“An island, on the other hand, is small. There are fewer species, and the competition for survival has never reached anything like… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
![“An island, on the other hand, is small. There are fewer species, and the competition for survival has never reached anything like the pitch that it does on the mainland. Species are only as tough as they need to be, life is much quieter and more settled [..] So you can imagine what happens when a…” quote by Douglas Adams](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2a0/douglas-adams-122_evolution_an-island-on-the-other-hand-is-small-the_2521756.png)
