“Technology has transformed the world into a global village. And communities, families, friends, etc., into local islands.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Throughout history, men have tried to play God by moving rabbits, goats, sparrows, mongooses, and a hundred other species to oceanic islands… — Victor Blanchard Scheffer Copy Share Image
I was commuting three to four hours a day, I had jobs for much of it. But I was always involved in… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
Go to the east shore of any of the Hawaiian Islands, and that's a pretty big lesson on how much plastic is… — Jack Johnson 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
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
Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the… — Enric Sala Copy Share Image
The other exception where we did not at all restore the place to its original condition is the Surrounded Islands. Before we… — Christo Copy Share Image
As William Gibson says, the future is already here but it's lumpy. It's unevenly distributed. Some people are already living this, the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I had to get a driver's license and drive to St. Louis to find the punk-rock scene that was happening there. And… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
In every island of the Aegaean Sea, on almost every barren rock I might say, are found abundant traces of a vast… — James Theodore Bent Copy Share Image
Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
After a day on Mykines, I changed my mind about life not going on. A sort of life was going on, beating… — Lawrence Millman Copy Share Image
She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My one-time roommate Claire had inherited the house from her uncle, and when she went off to bigger and better things, she’d… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas,… — David Friedman Copy Share Image
A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens. — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
“So you can imagine what happens when a mainland species gets introduced to an island. It would be like introducing Al Capone,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the… — Tim Bishop Copy Share Image
'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the… — Jason Scott Lee Copy Share Image
In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law. — Naoto Kan Copy Share Image
While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable… — Eliot Engel Copy Share Image
Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the… — Jack Adams Copy Share Image
Sicily could only be an island, less by the caprice of nature than by her own insolence. As though she might have… — Marlena De Blasi Copy Share Image
The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes.… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead… — Gerry Adams Copy Share Image
I identify with my culture, but I am happy to be living on a tolerant, intellectual island where I can deal with… — Orhan Pamuk 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
Same way I have my entire life. Keep my family and friends close. My Latino friends close. I visit the island [Puerto… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about… — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map;… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
As the show's executive producer, I envisioned something akin to "Gilligan's Island" meets Lord of the Flies meets Ten Little Indians mets… — Mark Burnett Copy Share Image
I go down to Newport and Huntington a lot. It's more crowded than where I grew up on Phillip Island, but I… — Liam Hemsworth Copy Share Image
Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets. We know Mitt Romney never met… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the past, Ive visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
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![“Same way I have my entire life. Keep my family and friends close. My Latino friends close. I visit the island [Puerto Rico] as often as I humanly can.” quote by Sonia Sotomayor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/861/sonia-sotomayor-1504_entire-life_same-way-i-have-my-entire-life-keep-my-f_435007.jpg)
