I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So… — Donny Osmond 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
I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any… — Francesca Annis Copy Share Image
The Order of the Arrow is a thing of the outdoors rather than the indoors. It was born in an island wilderness.… — E. Urner Goodman Copy Share Image
I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Places like Hilton Head, with water adjacency and nice climates, are in high demand, and land values are insane. In the case… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I believe Andy was meant to die because he was too good I'm almost happy it ended the way it did because… — Rachel Uchitel Copy Share Image
“There had been something about the island that made the girls forget who they had been. All those rules and shalt nots.… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no surer road to peace than the one that starts from little islands and oases of genuine kindness, islands… — Dominique Pire Copy Share Image
If you want to take the island, then burn your boats. With absolute commitment come the insights that create real victory. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in… — William Golding Copy Share Image
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of… — Godfried Danneels Copy Share Image
Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I will not return to a universe of objects that do not know each other, as if islands were not the long… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside. [Fr., L'honneur… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Everything is connected. There is no such thing as an island, especially in our world, global village, the whole thing. Pollution from… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of… — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
I was over there in Hawaii. I was there on the big island. The 'Big Island' - that name cracks me up.… — Carol Leifer Copy Share Image
Voyaging great distances -- through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains -- is all about finding ourselves. — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
Axiom: you are a sea. Your eye- lids curve over chaos My hands where they touch you, create small inhabited islands soon… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Three strikes, you're out. I don't care if you hire Edward Bennett Williams to defend you; three strikes, you're still out. Baseball… — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
I have raised beds, perennial beds, cut flower beds. I have an island on a pond that's just covered in peonies. I… — Steve Zahn Copy Share Image
Boy George has been charged with falsely imprisoning a man who'd gone to his apartment to pose for photographs. Going to Boy… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
I'm not a big Austen reader. I wouldn't say I dislike her, but if I had to choose between her and Eliot… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had… — Jeremy Northam Copy Share Image
By the time I retire, I will have fought the best. I will have made my money. Maybe I'll be a boxing… — Oscar De La Hoya Copy Share Image
It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Today I live on an island, in a house that is sad, hard, severe, that I built for myself, solitary on a… — Curzio Malaparte Copy Share Image
I was also thinking about isolation on an evolutionary scale as well, like when you think of an island like Madagascar where… — Colin Stetson Copy Share Image
I had to create a children's show, because we wanted the money - and it was, interestingly enough, the first project at… — Richard Cotovsky Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
![“I believe Andy was meant to die because he was too good I'm almost happy it ended the way it did because I've learned so many lessons from him. It would have been tragic if we got into fights and then divorced [If he had lived], I would be a fat housewife with three kids in Sands Point, Long Island.” quote by Rachel Uchitel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6a7/rachel-uchitel-82663_believe_i-believe-andy-was-meant-to-die-because_2161473.jpg)
![“John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a promised land in the Western [United States]; the perfidy of banks in foreclosing on poor people's homes; and the insurgent urge of the book's protagonist…” quote by Richard Corliss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/673/richard-corliss-4476_book_john-steinbeck-s-the-grapes-of-wrath-als_249829.jpg)
![“Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside. [Fr., L'honneur est comme une ile escarpee et sans bords; On n'y peut plus rentrer des qu'on en est dehors.]” quote by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/705/nicolas-boileau-despreaux-1070_honor_honor-is-like-an-island-rugged-and-witho_1500607.jpg)
