You have an utterly sincere glance when you look around after you are shipwrecked. You weep a long time on an island… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty,… — Daniela Pestova Copy Share Image
Say, Cuttino. What are those Godawful clothes you're wearing? Man, this ain't Rhode Island anymore. You're in the NBA. The girls have… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
I'm a little Jewish girl from Long Island, but when I listened to Tina Turner, I pictured myself in a mini-dress, dancing… — Winnie Holzman Copy Share Image
Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation. — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“Paradise” is a suffering word, grossly overused and ineptly devalued in everyday hype and blurb. Yet, tired as it is, it will… — Andrew Rayner Copy Share Image
“The South Pacific is memorable because when you are in the islands you simply cannot ignore nature. You cannot avoid looking up… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I advise everyone to find an island in this life. Find a place where this culture can't take energy away from you,… — RZA 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
Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present,… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
America, so far as her physical history is concerned, has been falsely denominated the New World. Hers was the first dry land… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
We’re not dead yet.” – Sundown “Yet is the operative word. If that’s all that’s in the way, I’ll kill you and… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
In the steel-and-glass society that we live in, the value system would be that the lawyer, with the Mercedes and the fine… — Scott Raab Copy Share Image
The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Harbour Island in the Bahamas is a wonderful little island with beautiful beaches, a great restaurant culture and friendly, welcoming atmosphere. — Helena Christensen Copy Share Image
I wanted people to believe that there could still be this little undiscovered piece of the world that survives still on Skull… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
Treasure Island is completed! The entire set of seventeen canvases without one break in my enthusiasm and spirit. Better in every quality… — N. C. Wyeth Copy Share Image
Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
Compared to overdeveloped islands like Nassau, Bimini has kept its original charm. Walk the streets to see colorfully painted houses, funky shops,… — Amanda Hearst Copy Share Image
My home kitchen is airy, with a gas stove, a stainless-steel island table in the center and granite countertops. It's very modest… — Grant Achatz Copy Share Image
When the ship is sinking and you're forced to choose sides, the new solution is to jump from island to island to… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
The Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] also highlighted the need to address general humanitarian issues. We already mentioned one of these issues: visa-free… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Theseus made unscrupulous use of Ariadne (whom he left on an island where Bacchus later found her-I always think that really meant… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
The piebald mare paws at the sand; I see her digging out of the corner of my eye and hear her grinding… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
This world of sense, built by the imagination--how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life,… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it,… — Christopher Atkins Copy Share Image
Pamalican Island is a wonderful story told with the sparkle of fun and a true understanding of the magic of childhood. A… — Raffaella Barker Copy Share Image
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest... But the trees also commingle their… — William James Copy Share Image
The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world, — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
I've been dying to go to India, especially to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. I've also heard Bollywood town's a lot of… — Kevin Dillon Copy Share Image
I majored in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, although I never had any intention of being an illustrator and… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
Well managed and healthy oceans are vital to the survival of small island states, such as the Maldives. This important book shows… — Mohamed Nasheed Copy Share Image
I did a lot of crazy gigs man. I hosted a Jack and Jill strip club in Woonsocket Rhode Island which is… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That's basically what we have been doing. We're just a small country of… — Tobias Lindholm Copy Share Image