If you are writing the clearest, truest words you can find and doing the best you can to understand and communicate, this… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
How amazing that the language of a few thousand savages living on a fog-encrusted island in the North Sea should become the… — Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley Copy Share Image
Now, for Romney to believe that somebody's grandmother is going to be so cut off she is going to self deport... He… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
“To be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares,- to be in love with one of… — Adolfo Bioy Casares Copy Share Image
Traveling in Europe made me understand that America has an island mentality: No one exists except us. There's a whole other world… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards. — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
What's my weirdest adventure? Yikes, there've been so very many. Perhaps the pig+vegetable+Taiwanese-army-guys boat ride to the island off the coast of… — Kate DiCamillo 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
We traveled for science: those three small embryos from Cape Crozier, that weight of fossils from Barkley Island, and that mass of… — Apsley Cherry-Garrard Copy Share Image
Treefingers is important, it's the point in which our protagonist crosses the icy tundra that is how to disappear completely to reach… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
Buckminster Fuller was down in Pennsylvania, then he'd come up and go to his island in Maine. He wanted to remain a… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
After a day on Mykines, I changed my mind about life not going on. A sort of life was going on, beating… — Lawrence Millman Copy Share Image
My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune,… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island. — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
When a poet writes a poem, meaning arises - because the poet is not alone; he has created something. When a dancer… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream. — Cameron Mackintosh 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
The secret of our success on planet Earth is space. Lots of it. Our solar system is a tiny island of activity… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything... — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image