It's strange, because Long Island is still New York, but the farther you go out on Long Island, the more creepy it… — David Krumholtz 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
Younger Cuban Americans who have decided to go to the island always come back telling me "that isn't the country my grandparents… — Mark Falcoff Copy Share Image
And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
At school, if I was ever bored in class, I would draw maps of islands or detailed interior of boats or lists… — Michelle Magorian Copy Share Image
You know, growing up, I lived in a neighborhood in Long Island where there was basically one black family. And I remember… — Lorraine Bracco Copy Share Image
Interestingly enough after diving to 235 feet in Saba, I visited the Virgin Islands. There, as a pure Karmic coincidence, I met… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Hawai'i is not truly the idyllic paradise of popular songs--islands of love and tranquility, where nothing bad ever happens. It was and… — Alan Brennert Copy Share Image
If we assiduously cultivate our powers of exaggeration, perhaps we, too, shall obtain the Paradise of Liars. And there Raphael shall paint… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget… — Jennifer Armstrong Copy Share Image
As I experienced life on the island, without electricity, plumbing or telephone, I thought it was important to show that people can… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
I judge property myself by its net earning power; that is the only rule I have been able to get… This whole… — Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Cole grasped a handful of vials and syringes with one hand and dumped them on the island in front of me. They… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The very best place to be in all the world is St. Mary's parish, Jamaica. And the best spot in St. Mary's… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Dreams were the worst. Of course I dreamed of food and love, but they were pleasant rather than otherwise. But then I'd… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters - people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them -… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called… — William Bell Copy Share Image
As known unknowns become known; unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a… — Jack Adams Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Situated on an island which I think it will one day cover, it rises like Venice from the sea, and like that… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength, - the… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The winds were blowing from west to east, pushing Abby's boat toward the rocks as Abby struggled with the autopilots below. If… — Abby Sunderland Copy Share Image
I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of… — Michael D. Higgins 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
From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Stories have a tendency to seep across the shining membrane walls separating the universes. They whisper and flutter like the feathers of… — Kelly Barnhill Copy Share Image
Rhode Island has become a second home to me after being involved in its cultural life for over 61 years. I look… — George Wein Copy Share Image
“Of course often those places went very cheap - islands didn't suit everybody. They thought the idea was romantic but when they… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the… — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
I think LeBron asked out of the game once or twice before that, so we knew he was getting tired but we… — Tim Duncan Copy Share Image
Your grandparents did not endure the indignities of a steerage journey to Ellis Island so that you could stand outside a discothèque… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The revival of the Right is as extraordinary as it would be if the public had demanded dozens of new nuclear plants… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
I hope that the residents of my current district - from Quincy to Provincetown and the Islands - know that their well-being… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
nights and days came and passed and summer and winter and the sun and the wind and the rain. and it was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“I judge property myself by its net earning power; that is the only rule I have been able to get… This whole island [Manhattan] was once bought for a few strings of beads. But now you will find this property valued by its earning power, by its rent power, and that is the way to value a railroad or…” quote by Jay Gould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4ad/jay-gould-41126_able_i-judge-property-myself-by-its-net-earni_1222079.jpg)
