In the past, Ive visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states… — Pico Iyer 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
As the show's executive producer, I envisioned something akin to "Gilligan's Island" meets Lord of the Flies meets Ten Little Indians mets… — Mark Burnett Copy Share Image
Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead… — Gerry Adams Copy Share Image
I identify with my culture, but I am happy to be living on a tolerant, intellectual island where I can deal with… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it… — Anna Friel Copy Share Image
Same way I have my entire life. Keep my family and friends close. My Latino friends close. I visit the island [Puerto… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Of all the delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Maybe 23 cents doesn't sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account, Cayman Island Investments and an IRA worth… — Lilly Ledbetter Copy Share Image
Puerto Rico is an island separated by an ocean, a language, a culture. All of that put it in a position where… — Nelson Antonio Denis Copy Share Image
We Poor Cousins don’t care at all though, except for when we’re on welfare, broke, starving, unable to buy cool high-tops for… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
We know that the warming rising seas will swallow entire island nations that are about 25 percent of the UN vote and… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about… — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
My best vacation was renting a boat and motoring along the Adriatic, going along the Croatian coast, before it became so fashionable.… — Ian Schrager Copy Share Image
A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The island of the tonal, the way we see life, is there so we can get through our life. It was never… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Last night I dreamt Moses and I were rowing underwater. We could breathe and talk to one another. We rowed past schools… — J. Dylan Yates 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
So, you wrecked Alcatraz Island, made Mount St. Helens explode, and displaced half a million people, but at least you're safe." "Yep,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
We had generals who were admirals and admirals who wanted to be generals. Generals acting as admirals are bad enough, but it… — Holland Smith Copy Share Image
Nature did not gift us with a mighty Mekong like Thailand and Vietnam, with their vast and naturally fertile plains. Nature instead… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best night of my life was watching the moon turn red on an island .I think it was called the blood… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
Puerto Rico has a stray dog problem. Tens of thousands of homeless canines - hundreds of thousands, by some estimates - live… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman's power, deeper than the roots of trees,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have a massage when I want to relax. I love being pampered. I love island massages when you're outside in the… — Angie Stone 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
I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
The one-handed palmer can always reach higher, they say. They may be right, but the result is that nearly every line-out is… — Vivian Jenkins Copy Share Image
If you go to old houses on Long Island you will see painted Chinese wallpaper, which was big in the 18th century.… — Catherine Martin Copy Share Image
“No man is an island,” he says. “Islands are made of dirt and rocks and trees. I don’t know any people made… — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
Have we even so much as discovered and settled the shores? Let a man travel on foot along the coastand tell me… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We're all trying to get to the same island — whether you swim, fly, surf, or skydive, it doesn't matter. What matters… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
August for the people and their favourite islands. Daily the steamers sidle up to meet The effusive welcome of the pier. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
In no way can words convey the nagual. But they open up the possibility. They allow an admission on the island of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image