Islands Quotes · Page 6

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“What you see is what you get. The island is imaginative enough. Creativity don’t need to be wasted on naming things.”

— Doug Cooper

Park hill staten island seal, rock the reel to reel we high hills deep

— Cappadonna

Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything...

— Clive Barker

I don't feel like I need to be on an island to be enjoying myself and relaxing.

— Jon M. Chu

Thus did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.

— Anonymous

You put a guy on a desert island, he'll do it to mud, a chicken, a barrel, anything, a knothole.

— Lenny Bruce

Our girl's going to Capri for fun. We've got an Italian island vibe.

— Christian Siriano

We had generals who were admirals and admirals who wanted to be generals. Generals acting as admirals are bad enough, but it…

— Holland Smith

Nature did not gift us with a mighty Mekong like Thailand and Vietnam, with their vast and naturally fertile plains. Nature instead…

— Anonymous

I pledge allegiance to the soil of Turtle Island, and to the beings who thereon dwell one ecosystem in diversity under the…

— Gary Snyder

I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes…

— Billy Connolly

August for the people and their favourite islands. Daily the steamers sidle up to meet The effusive welcome of the pier.

— W. H. Auden

Have we even so much as discovered and settled the shores? Let a man travel on foot along the coastand tell me…

— Henry David Thoreau

“No man is an island,” he says. “Islands are made of dirt and rocks and trees. I don’t know any people made…

— Andrew Shaffer

We're all trying to get to the same island — whether you swim, fly, surf, or skydive, it doesn't matter. What matters…

— Jerry Seinfeld

For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as…

— Zora Neale Hurston

By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made! What an enterprise of nature thus to lay the foundations of…

— Henry David Thoreau

He only wishes there were something that would heal the scars in his mind, which he can still feel. He sees his…

— Neal Shusterman

Put any two people together and each will seek ways of feeling superior to the other. If a ship went down in…

— Michael Foley

It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does…

— Shimon Peres

We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these,…

— Clive Barker

Heartbreak is when you're just far enough away from what you desire that you can feel it. Change is the Pangaea moment.…

— Laurel Nakadate

There!" Apollo pointed. "Long Island, dead ahead. Let's slow down, dear. 'Dead' is only an expression.

— Rick Riordan

Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.

— Ben Stein

My dream is to go spend a week on some island with no phone.

— Cara Delevingne

“There was nothing but a lonely magnificence of sea and islands”

— Margaret Craven

I haven't bought anything excessive. I do plan on buying an island and filling it with baby tigers, though.

— Kesha

Don Juan speaks of the island of the tonal as something that's in the middle of the ocean ... the nagual.

— Frederick Lenz

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.

— Tim Bishop

I have never been part of a scene. I've always been a bit of an island really, but I am fine with…

— Planningtorock

That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.

— William Shakespeare

Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan.

— Charlie Day

I did a 'Love Boat!' And based on my trip on the 'Love Boat,' I said, 'I'd just as soon not do…

— Tom Hanks

I was a choir boy for 3 years in high school at St. George's in Newport, Rhode Island.

— Billy Bush

Most humans were on one big island, to the fairies, and that island was adrift on a sea called I Totally Don’t…

— Charlaine Harris

Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos can shift the whole system to a higher order.

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.

— Charles Stross