Islands Quotes · Page 10

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

— Donald L. Carcieri

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

— Etty Hillesum

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

— Hank Johnson

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

— Heather McDonald

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.

— Sigrid Agren

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

— Riccardo Muti

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

— Winston Churchill

We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

— William James

I have raised beds, perennial beds, cut flower beds. I have an island on a pond that's just covered in peonies. I…

— Steve Zahn

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

— Tim Lebbon

Axiom: you are a sea. Your eye- lids curve over chaos My hands where they touch you, create small inhabited islands soon…

— Margaret Atwood

Three strikes, you're out. I don't care if you hire Edward Bennett Williams to defend you; three strikes, you're still out. Baseball…

— Bill Veeck

A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the…

— John Millington Synge

I think there's a part of all of us that wonders how we would survive on an island untouched by Man. Even…

— Tom Hiddleston

I realized I was on a something island. 'How did I get here,' I wondered, surrounded by Nothing, "and how can I…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books,…

— Margaret Thatcher

Willows whiten, aspens quiver, little breezes dusk and shiver, thro' the wave that runs forever by the island in the river, flowing…

— Anonymous

I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received,…

— William Safire

What the altar-bound of today end up buying from their numberless vendors is a dog's breakfast of bridal excess - part society…

— Caitlin Flanagan

When Dove moves up from a canter to a gallop, sometimes the only way I can tell the difference is because her…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Indeed, if I understand this global-warming business correctly, the danger is that the waters will rise and drown the whole of Massachusetts,…

— Mark Steyn

Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most…

— Douglas Adams

We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn…

— Alain de Botton

I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacific…

— Henry Rollins

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

— Nat Hentoff

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

— Gordon Ramsay

The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

I want people to think of Hawaii and think of palm trees and magical islands and Bruno Mars.

— Bruno Mars

I don't want to be an island. I want to be more of a tourist attraction. You stop here, I take your…

— Richard Sherman

There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and…

— Eric Weiner

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

— Sophie Anderton

However, the 1956 agreement refers to two islands while the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] is talking about four islands.

— Vladimir Putin

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

— John Millington Synge

We are so many and many within themselves travel to far islands but no one asks for their story.

— Denise Levertov

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

— Jamaica Kincaid

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

— Oliver Kahn

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

— Tom Kettle

From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.

— Robert Browning

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

— Gordon Ramsay

We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.

— William James