The truth is, until you know any different, the island is enough. Actually, I know different. And it's still enough. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Everything was blamed on Castro. Mudslides in California. The fact that you can't buy a decent tomato anymore. Was there an exceptionally… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
In front of us lay a smooth sandy beach, beyond which rose gradually a high wooded country, and behind us was the… — George Grey Copy Share Image
Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind. — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The ocean is the grand vehicle of trade, and the uniter of distant nations. To us it is peculiarly kind, not only… — James Hervey Copy Share Image
I am home grown St. Lucian. Born in 1980 I have spent most of my life on this island. Apart from the… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
I devoured TV - everything from Super Friends in the morning to Dukes of Hazzard and The Love Boat and Fantasy Island… — Justin Theroux Copy Share Image
... and over that side of the island all their sacred men were at work trying to kill me by their (magical)… — John Gibson Paton Copy Share Image
Pirate Hunters is a fantastic book, an utterly engrossing and satisfying read. It tells the story of the hunt for the rare… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
He looked like someone with a steerage ticket on the titanic. Somebody who'd be standing in line at Ellis Island. Undiluted and… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
That summer we had been absolutely alone, together, even when people were around, the only inhabitants of the kind of floating island… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it… — Anna Friel Copy Share Image
The minute you had kids you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like individual, discrete,… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the… — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I had to create a children's show, because we wanted the money - and it was, interestingly enough, the first project at… — Richard Cotovsky Copy Share Image
The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy. I keep myself surrounded by them as soon as they start coming to the island… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated and stared at maps for hours as a kid. I've especially been most intrigued by the uninhabited or… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbor and… — Tammin Sursok Copy Share Image
