I am home grown St. Lucian. Born in 1980 I have spent most of my life on this island. Apart from the… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
I would like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of… — Jack Adams Copy Share Image
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… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
I can't remember exactly the first thing I wrote, but one of the stories, was about a pilot whose plane crashed on… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The last two days of shooting ('Harper's Island') was probably the most hardcore, the coldest anyone has ever been. It was like… — Elaine Cassidy Copy Share Image
“The radiant sun draws visitors from the cold climes of Scandinavia, Britain, and Germany, and lively tavernas and discotheques entice vacationers from… — Laura Brooks Copy Share Image
Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. Sometimes you've got… — Julie Powell 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
Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the… — Richard Louv 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 go to Florida sometimes for vacation. I actually really like Florida. It's a weird place, it's surreal. It's so close, but… — Jemima Kirke Copy Share Image
What's my weirdest adventure? Yikes, there've been so very many. Perhaps the pig+vegetable+Taiwanese-army-guys boat ride to the island off the coast of… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe,… — Charles Sturt Copy Share Image
I think honestly when I was younger I use to love going to carnivals in Long Island. I use to love carnival… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island,… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
Because I am so intensely identified with opinion and analysis and contextualization, I think I just need, for my own psychological benefit,… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
Islands are going to suffer from climate change in very, very difficult ways. And it's not just Pacific islands. It's not just… — Brian Schatz Copy Share Image
I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the night, I've shrunk and everyone else on the island has grown. They're all nine feet tall and men and I'm… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about… — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were… — Benicio Del Toro Copy Share Image
The islands above the falls are covered with foliage as beautiful as can be seen anywhere. Viewed from the mass of rock… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
Island of Hispaniola once so populous (having a population that I estimated to be more than three million), has now a population… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
The Maldives, a string of islands off the coast of India whose highest point above sea level is eight feet, may be… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of the volcanoes are pretty far away. You have to go to, God knows, Alaska. Or you have to go to… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
On the periscope . . . . What a beautiful view. Cloud cover over Florida - three to four tenths near the… — Alan Shepard Copy Share Image
A university should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher levels of knowledge without sharing any of this knowledge… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose… — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand. — Chester A. Arthur Copy Share Image
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