Islands Quotes · Page 5

The Castro government is disproportionately white given the color of the island. It doesn't look like Cuba.

— Mark Falcoff

It sucks, but no Long Islands or margaritas when you drink. It has to be straight vodka.

— Nicole Polizzi

I love being naked. I do everything in the nude, even the gardening! We're Cuban, and it's a hot island. Why not?

— Eva Mendes

The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.

— Jack Adams

As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.

— Laurie Anderson

They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.

— Anonymous

I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.

— Richard Stallman

... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt…

— Nellie Bly

I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on…

— John Lydon

A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of…

— James F. Cooper

The island of the tonal, the way we see life, is there so we can get through our life. It was never…

— Frederick Lenz

My best vacation was renting a boat and motoring along the Adriatic, going along the Croatian coast, before it became so fashionable.…

— Ian Schrager

“Last night I dreamt Moses and I were rowing underwater. We could breathe and talk to one another. We rowed past schools…

— J. Dylan Yates

Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That's basically what we have been doing. We're just a small country of…

— Tobias Lindholm

So, you wrecked Alcatraz Island, made Mount St. Helens explode, and displaced half a million people, but at least you're safe." "Yep,…

— Rick Riordan

My one-time roommate Claire had inherited the house from her uncle, and when she went off to bigger and better things, she’d…

— Karen Chance

Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several…

— Plato

National law has no place in cyberlaw. Where is cyberspace? If you don't like banking laws in the United States, set up…

— Nicholas Negroponte

Morris was not the type to offer a hug or even hold your hand. But there was something in his quiet indignation…

— Sarah Dessen

It was true what Jim said, this wasn’t the end but the beginning. But the wars would end one day and Jim…

— Jamie O'Neill

I greatly enjoyed the Hawaiian Islands. They are a real little paradise in spite of the influx of Americans who have made…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I know that the United Kingdom is sometimes seen as an argumentative and rather strong-minded member of the family of European nations.…

— David Cameron

Peitaho Heavy rains fall on Yuyen, the northland kingdom of swallows. White pages of rain envelop the sky, and fishing boats off…

— Mao Zedong

Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called 'Someday I'll.'

— Denis Waitley

I just remembered when I was an adolescent girl wanting to leave my island and find my calling.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I grew up in Hawaii and I think those islands are some of the most amazing places on the planet.

— Mateus Ward

Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind.

— Bob Denver

California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.

— Paul Mazursky

Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

— Luke Rhinehart

My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.

— Ricky Jay

The sky was as blue as a stupid postcard, and the islands were as green as islands.

— Anonymous

A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable

— Thabo Mbeki

I know I'm not very popular on Long Island. I don't know who's less popular, me or Joey Buttafuoco.

— Don Maloney

Planet Earth is our shared island, let us join forces to protect it

— Ban Ki-moon

My usual trick with the Irish plays is to set things on islands I've never been to.

— Martin McDonagh

When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient.

— J. C. Chandor

Jamaica's probably the most dominant island as far as influence goes, as far as music and dancing and culture.

— Joey Badass

This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.

— William Golding

I took my son to Coney island, I said "wanna go in the crazy house?", he said "save your money we'll be…

— Rodney Dangerfield