No one, who is familiar with the bustle and activity of an American commercial town, would recognise, in the repose which now… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him. — Yancy Butler Copy Share Image
Axiom: you are a sea. Your eye- lids curve over chaos My hands where they touch you, create small inhabited islands soon… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I'm from an island, so I've always been near the water. I don't think I could live somewhere far from the sea. — Sigrid Agren Copy Share Image
The distribution of species on islands and continents throughout the world is exactly what you'd expect if evolution was a fact. The… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
For me as a kid, reading cyberpunk was like seeing the world for the first time. Gibson's Neuromancer wasn't just stylistically stunning;… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
"Filipino" is the Spanish side of our history. The islands were named after King Felipe, so we became known as Filipinos. It's… — Lav Diaz Copy Share Image
Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
It was a palace, made entirely of gold, sitting on an island of silver snow at the very top of the world.… — Jessica Day George Copy Share Image
No man is an island. You can ask people for help and they can ask for your help in return. — Mr Hudson Copy Share Image
I've been diving for about 30 years, and I can honestly say that I've had some amazing encounters with sharks, squids, and… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations. — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
The Good Quality Snob, or wearer of muted tweeds, cut almost exactly the same from year to year, often with a hat… — Russell Lynes 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
We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland. — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite. — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and if, in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
A room of one's own isn't nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one's own. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
At the piping of all hands,When the judgment-signal's spread-When the islands and the landsAnd the seas give up their dead,And the South… — John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Copy Share Image
But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
