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
“Technology has transformed the world into a global village. And communities, families, friends, etc., into local islands.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We grow up hearing so often that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points that we end up thinking… — Thomas W. Horton Copy Share Image
Still Caine hesitated. A big, warm bed. A beautiful girl to share it with. Food. Water. Everything he needed, just a few… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I visit the island [Puerto Rico] as often as I humanly can. And I visit with community as frequently as possible, given… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen. — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
When you sit, you've put a place on the island of the tonal for the possibility of your thoughts stopping for a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I love being naked. I do everything in the nude, even the gardening! We're Cuban, and it's a hot island. Why not? — Eva Mendes 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
Before September 11, we were fighting terrorism in our southwestern Philippines, and it was a lonely fight. However, we were able to… — Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Copy Share Image
If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read… — Anne Roiphe 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
Piper to Drew: P: In case youthink Im not a true Daughter of Aphrodite dont even look at Jason Grace. He may… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
What happened to the alpha-wolf?" "LEGOs." "Legos?" It sounded Greek but I couldn't recall anything mythological with that name. Wasn't it an… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
I have never seen the sea quiet round Treasure Island. The sun might blaze overhead, the air be without a breath, the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day.… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
The Hawaiian Islands were discovered by hardy Polynesian sailors, who crossed thousands of miles of open ocean in primitive canoes, braving violent… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
One of the world's most tiresome questions is what object one would bring to a desert island,because people always answer "a deck… — Anonymous Copy Share Image