I have a cartoon where the guy is pretty much, he's a regular-sized guy, but he's the size of the island. He's… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
I've always felt England was a great place for a comic to work. It's an island and the audience can't run very… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I don't know the numbers, but roughly half of the people who came through Ellis Island returned home. They came here to… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The Maldives, a string of islands off the coast of India whose highest point above sea level is eight feet, may be… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
There's nothing really difficult if you only begin - some people contemplate a task until it looms so big, it seems impossible,… — John Shaw Billings Copy Share Image
Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
It's amazing. Long Island, I don't know really. It's quite a fascinating area. — Gordon Ramsay Copy Share Image
We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows… — Chuck Palahniuk 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
The dark cloud, which had been cleared by the Phoenician discoveries, and finally dispelled by the arms of Caesar, again settled on… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down… — John W. Vessey, Jr Copy Share Image
The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have to think that somewhere on some little island in the Pacific, there's someone's who's great, but I'm probably never going… — Ry Cooder 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
the way with Ireland is that no sooner do you get away from her than the golden mists begin to close about… — Katharine Tynan Copy Share Image
We are so many and many within themselves travel to far islands but no one asks for their story. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
In my own creations, the earliest influence came from the ancient civilisations of Egypt, China, Africa and Persia. In fact, one of… — Mary McFadden Copy Share Image
Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most. — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
You asked my opinion and I gave it. Of course you have to remember that if I’d been on the island with… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
