Islands Quotes · Page 11

One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

— Richard Francis Burton

Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?

— Thomas Sowell

There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station.

— Peter Hain

Although no man is an island, you can make quite an effective raft out of six.

— Simon Munnery

And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at…

— Laurie Anderson

The fact is, we are not islands and we are far more connected than we know

— Anonymous

That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it.

— Kathy Griffin

Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when I'm on the boat. You never separate work from…

— Renzo Piano

Yeah? Rock 'n' Roll is fast, you know. If all goes according to plan I could be in rehab next thursday. Tuesday…

— Noel Fielding

I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there…

— Jon Bon Jovi

It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite…

— Alan Brennert

“Word has traveled quickly that just because you're on island doesn't mean you have to be stranded---as long as you have cash.”

— Doug Cooper

Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbor and…

— Tammin Sursok

I had dreamed of visiting Bali for many years and because I had an extended family of Balinese friends in Los Angeles,…

— Carolyn Murphy

I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during…

— Ronald Reagan

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

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

There is a scene in the movie where Astrid and Hiccup fly on Toothless's back toward the island of Berk. The animation…

— Craig Ferguson

It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation,…

— Mark Twain

Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.

— Cameron Mackintosh

A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry-that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three Mile Island.

— Johnny Carson

Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.

— Mason Cooley

What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?

— Wyndham Lewis

As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.

— Freeman Dyson

Iran is an island of stability in a turbulent corner of the world

— Jimmy Carter

Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.

— Gerald Durrell

And I've shot in Prince Edward Island winters, I mean, I've shot in some intense, intense temperatures.

— Ellen Page

I don't want to be the only survivor on the island with no smoke.

— Sean Price

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things...

— Agatha Christie

It'll be a great day when the seniors have all the baseball caps they need and the Pentagon bombs Gilligan's Island.

— Jesse Jackson

The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.

— Gautama Buddha

We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.

— Gavin MacLeod

Islands are known to differ in the food supply available to ground finches, mainly seeds.

— Peter R. Grant

That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.

— William Irwin Thompson