Islands Quotes · Page 12

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

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

We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations.

— Joe Quirk

Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been…

— Lawrence Block

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

— Jerry Seinfeld

On Sunday, the president flies to the Azores islands to attend a summit with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spanish Prime…

— Craig Kilborn

Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all…

— William Wordsworth

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

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

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

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

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

— Neal Shusterman

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

— William Irwin Thompson

I must have the sun and warmth. I need to be in the sun - I'm a true island baby.

— Narciso Rodriguez

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.

— Bill O'Reilly

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

— Spike Lee

COULD I PASS A WEEK IN THE INSANE WARD AT BLACKWELL'S ISLAND? I SAID I COULD AND I WOULD. AND I DID.

— Nellie Bly

The average millionaire can't tell you who got thrown off the island last night.

— Dave Ramsey

Women are like those blinkin' little Greek islands, places to call at but not to stay.

— Stacy Aumonier

No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.

— Chester W. Nimitz

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.

— Ezra Stiles

Nervous? He's tighter than Pat Buchanan's sphincter muscle at a 4th of July soiree on Fire Island.

— Dennis Miller

The undersea world surrounding Green Island looks just like a water fairyland.

— Mehgan Heaney-Grier

We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.

— William James

[Long Island] is buoyant, it's on the outskirts of Manhattan, and so they have access to phenomenal restaurants.

— Gordon Ramsay

In terms of the fantasy wedding thing, I can kind of cross off the island beach thing. Maybe at sunset or something.

— Mandy Moore

In the spring or summer, I like going to the Hamptons or Fire Island. Anywhere I can hear waves, I'm there.

— Peter Som

If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a…

— Nathaniel Branden