Islands Quotes · Page 8

Every great group is an island... but an island with a bridge to the mainland.

— Warren G. Bennis

Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.

— Gary Vaynerchuk

The Eightfold Path is ordering the island of the tonal completely.

— Frederick Lenz

I had to say no to 'Fantasy Island' back when I was doing 'Bosom Buddies.'

— Tom Hanks

Personality is a person among persons. There is no personality of one man on a desert island.

— Kwame Kilpatrick

My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.

— Yancy Butler

Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.

— Anonymous

I know that not many people can go to the Marshall Islands. It is really one of the most remote places on…

— Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

— Daniel Dennett

For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in…

— William Golding

Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of…

— Godfried Danneels

Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither…

— Anonymous

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

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

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any…

— Francesca Annis

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

Happiness is threatening and misery is safe - safe for the ego. Ego can exist only in misery and through misery. Ego…

— Rajneesh

I have often sung to drown my sorrow, but seldom to express my happiness. Crying for joy, and singing for joy, were…

— Frederick Douglass

And yet ... But what if ... I want to do something impossible. Something astounding and unheard of. I want to scrub…

— Isaac Marion

The journey is long, the road is dark and frightening, but together we can reach our destination: the Tasmania of which we…

— Richard Flanagan

I remember the Chillicothe ballplayers grappling the Long Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game ended by darkness. And the shoulders of…

— Carl Sandburg

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We…

— Anonymous

[Puerto Rico] losing not just taxpayers, but professionals, people who are vital to their communities. I don't think that is good. So…

— Marco Rubio

Ghost Team approached me. They said, "Hey, it's mid-October, do you want to go shoot a movie on Long Island for three…

— David Krumholtz

My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no…

— Alexa Ray Joel

Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed.

— Ru Freeman

Writes have an island, a center of refuge, within themselves. It is the mind's anchorage, the soul's Great Good Place.

— Wright Morris

Vodka! That's a child's drink, why am I drinking this stupid drink, oh and why am I on a traffic island?

— Dylan Moran

Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

— Patrick McGoohan

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.

— Thomas Paine

The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island!

— Donald L. Carcieri

I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to…

— Edie Falco

We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.

— John W. Gardner

I rented an island for Kanye West birthday. A far, far away place where no one can find us.

— Kim Kardashian

You cannot sail for other islands until you are willing to lose sight of your own shore.

— Anonymous

[I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it.

— Nelson Mandela

Islands are gregarious animals, they decorate the ocean in conveys.

— Stella Benson

Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day.

— Theo Rossi