I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because I am so intensely identified with opinion and analysis and contextualization, I think I just need, for my own psychological benefit,… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
Islands are going to suffer from climate change in very, very difficult ways. And it's not just Pacific islands. It's not just… — Brian Schatz Copy Share Image
AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were… — Benicio Del Toro Copy Share Image
The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about… — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
I can't remember exactly the first thing I wrote, but one of the stories, was about a pilot whose plane crashed on… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The last two days of shooting ('Harper's Island') was probably the most hardcore, the coldest anyone has ever been. It was like… — Elaine Cassidy Copy Share Image
Most people, it seems, think that Robinson Crusoe when he landed on his Island had nothing to keep him from starvation or… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
As I went walking I saw a sign there And on the sign it said "No Trespassing." But on the other side… — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
The Good Quality Snob, or wearer of muted tweeds, cut almost exactly the same from year to year, often with a hat… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
When, during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island. — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I was born in a small clapboard house on an island, but I also have certain privileges that I didn't have when… — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As with Three Mile Island, the hysteria of the media and the political class over the Deepwater spill is likely to lead… — Steven F. Hayward Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be a writer. Where I came from, no one was a writer. I came from Long Island,… — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Somehow, the love of the islands, like the love of a woman, just happens. One cannot determine in advance to love a… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy. I keep myself surrounded by them as soon as they start coming to the island… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
“Islands, being harder to get to, naturally separated some of the wheat from the chaff, which was the entire philosophy behind places… — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
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
We just did a show in Providence, Rhode Island, and we got three puppy shots before we even got on the air,… — Jerry Lawler Copy Share Image
I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster, drank piña coladas. At sunset, we made love… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
I'd left Hawaii twice in my life, so I'd been on an island my whole life. I had no clue. I didn't… — Maggie Q Copy Share Image
How did Italy manage to end up with no Caribbean islands at all? Christopher Columbus took the trouble to discover the Caribbean… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
I'm French. I have not become an Englishman. I have the impression of living on an island called Arsenal. If you fancy… — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest, which co-mingle their roots in the darkness underground. — William James Copy Share Image
Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison?… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I think that’s a mercy of this island, actually, that it won’t give us our terrible memories for long, but let us… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
You might have mentioned this to me Molly,” said Leonard. “The fact that there are hostile natives on the island.” “I forgot,”… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda... But the [Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group] are mad, they want to… — Yoweri Museveni Copy Share Image