I think I'm Swedish because I like to live here on this island. You can't imagine the loneliness and isolation in this… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
“The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
In front of us lay a smooth sandy beach, beyond which rose gradually a high wooded country, and behind us was the… — George Grey Copy Share Image
I was over there in Hawaii. I was there on the big island. The 'Big Island' - that name cracks me up.… — Carol Leifer Copy Share Image
Everything is connected. There is no such thing as an island, especially in our world, global village, the whole thing. Pollution from… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of… — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
“I will not return to a universe of objects that do not know each other, as if islands were not the long… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
We tend to think that refusing to exalt Christ is staying true to our self-will and personal freedom when really we are… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
When I talked about Boeing and I talked about General Electric, what I was referring to is an outrage... Right now you… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of… — Nicolas Berggruen Copy Share Image
We live on a minute island of known things. Our undiminished wonder at the mystery which surrounds us is what makes us… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the… — Nils-Axel Morner Copy Share Image
There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside. [Fr., L'honneur… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Voyaging great distances -- through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains -- is all about finding ourselves. — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Axiom: you are a sea. Your eye- lids curve over chaos My hands where they touch you, create small inhabited islands soon… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Boy George has been charged with falsely imprisoning a man who'd gone to his apartment to pose for photographs. Going to Boy… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had… — Jeremy Northam Copy Share Image
I'm not a big Austen reader. I wouldn't say I dislike her, but if I had to choose between her and Eliot… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any… — Francesca Annis Copy Share Image
The Order of the Arrow is a thing of the outdoors rather than the indoors. It was born in an island wilderness.… — E. Urner Goodman Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no surer road to peace than the one that starts from little islands and oases of genuine kindness, islands… — Dominique Pire Copy Share Image
If you want to take the island, then burn your boats. With absolute commitment come the insights that create real victory. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in… — William Golding Copy Share Image
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of… — Godfried Danneels Copy Share Image
Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“ The Islands The island of Capri lies off the end of the Sorrento Peninsula. Many sea caves break its coastline. Perhaps… — Jean F. Blashfield Copy Share Image
The Hawaiian Islands were discovered by hardy Polynesian sailors, who crossed thousands of miles of open ocean in primitive canoes, braving violent… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
We grow up hearing so often that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points that we end up thinking… — Thomas W. Horton Copy Share Image
I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive. "Surviving" is… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
“I have been half my life away from home,” Theon said at last. “Will I find the islands changed?” “Men fish the… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image