Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off. — William Styron Copy Share Image
Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
Don't just tell me a mystery; give me a world. Suzanne Myers delivers a hurricane-ravaged island shimmering with atmosphere and dense with… — Judy Blundell Copy Share Image
...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Am I going to be able to provide a real home for her, man? An education? A real life? What's her college… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down… — John W. Vessey, Jr Copy Share Image
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. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
And I could weep at how mean people are and how they betray their fellow creatures, perhaps for the sake of personal… — Sophie Scholl Copy Share Image
Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget… — Jennifer Armstrong Copy Share Image
The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever… — John Muir Copy Share Image
In the steel-and-glass society that we live in, the value system would be that the lawyer, with the Mercedes and the fine… — Scott Raab Copy Share Image
I had to get a driver's license and drive to St. Louis to find the punk-rock scene that was happening there. And… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
As William Gibson says, the future is already here but it's lumpy. It's unevenly distributed. Some people are already living this, the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In every island of the Aegaean Sea, on almost every barren rock I might say, are found abundant traces of a vast… — James Theodore Bent Copy Share Image
The other exception where we did not at all restore the place to its original condition is the Surrounded Islands. Before we… — Christo Copy Share Image
After a day on Mykines, I changed my mind about life not going on. A sort of life was going on, beating… — Lawrence Millman Copy Share Image
If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to… — Bono Copy Share Image
Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback… — Arnold J. Mandell Copy Share Image
Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Do away with the corporate loopholes that allow major profitable corporations to stash their money in the Cayman Islands and not pay… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
People are hypocrites. If you ask them what they want to see on TV, they'll tell you they want better quality programming.… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
We built everything - toilets included. I think those islands in the middle of nowhere are quite poetic. It's kind of an… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
Sundown. The distressed sloop, its mainmast shattered by lightning, its sails ripped by the winds of the open sea, drifted into the… — Robert Ludlum Copy Share Image
We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or… — Barney Ross Copy Share Image
Democracy means that if this man,you Miss and I will be trapped on an island, we having a majority of votes will… — Janusz Korwin-Mikke Copy Share Image
And I really wanted a driver's license. I was 43, had my learner's permit and had failed the test once already -… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
You have an utterly sincere glance when you look around after you are shipwrecked. You weep a long time on an island… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty,… — Daniela Pestova Copy Share Image
I'm a little Jewish girl from Long Island, but when I listened to Tina Turner, I pictured myself in a mini-dress, dancing… — Winnie Holzman Copy Share Image
Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation. — David Quammen Copy Share Image
A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
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… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
Harbour Island in the Bahamas is a wonderful little island with beautiful beaches, a great restaurant culture and friendly, welcoming atmosphere. — Helena Christensen Copy Share Image
“Paradise” is a suffering word, grossly overused and ineptly devalued in everyday hype and blurb. Yet, tired as it is, it will… — Andrew Rayner Copy Share Image
Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I wanted people to believe that there could still be this little undiscovered piece of the world that survives still on Skull… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
Treasure Island is completed! The entire set of seventeen canvases without one break in my enthusiasm and spirit. Better in every quality… — N. C. Wyeth Copy Share Image
