My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The Senkaku islands are inherently Japanese territory. I want to show my strong determination to prevent this from changing. — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
The Bahamas are gorgeous. The deep trench in the ocean floor called the Tongue of the Ocean, which comes between the islands,… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
An island Utopia in a modern, busy, everyday world. A land where there are neither rich nor poor. A heaven on earth… — William Wrigley, Jr Copy Share Image
I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So… — Donny Osmond Copy Share Image
I meditate, and when I do, Prince Harry appears in my subconscious and meditates with me. It's a little strange but I… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
When I retire, I don't want to just move to some island somewhere. I want to be the guy who gives it… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
He knew by heart every last minute crack on its surface. He had made maps of the ceiling and gone exploring on… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
“People still said that “The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire,” even though the Commonwealth was starting to come apart. In… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two Copy Share Image
I devoured TV - everything from Super Friends in the morning to Dukes of Hazzard and The Love Boat and Fantasy Island… — Justin Theroux Copy Share Image
I'd known the people at Rolling Stone for a while. I'd gone to them with a piece I'd done on Beirut for… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Of all the delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Maybe 23 cents doesn't sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account, Cayman Island Investments and an IRA worth… — Lilly Ledbetter Copy Share Image
It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake... No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
I don't know the numbers, but roughly half of the people who came through Ellis Island returned home. They came here to… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of… — Tim Bishop Copy Share Image
We just sat there and watched the plane pass the island, and it never came back," he said. "I could see it… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true. — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
Traveling in Europe made me understand that America has an island mentality: No one exists except us. There's a whole other world… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are actors.' I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of… — Giovanni Ruffini Copy Share Image
Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from… — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky;… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
In my own creations, the earliest influence came from the ancient civilisations of Egypt, China, Africa and Persia. In fact, one of… — Mary McFadden Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
If you're shipwrecked on an island with 10 million dollars and your wife has gold and diamonds, but there's no water, no… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans. — George Will Copy Share Image
[Madame Nhu was] the Sandra Dee of South Vietnam. If I were cast on a desert island with her, I would quickly… — Oscar Levant Copy Share Image
The jambalaya of the American South owes a lot to the cuisines of the islands and western Africa, and it's my favorite… — Andrew Zimmern Copy Share Image
I don't buy a lot of things. I like to create things. I've been lucky enough to be able to build my… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image