I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
I have hardly begun to live on Staten Island yet; but, like the man who, when forbidden to tread on English ground,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There used to be this guy called Vinny who worked on the floor of the stock exchange, said one big investor who… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Much of the attention on oceans has portrayed oceans as a villain. Warm water strengthened Hurricane Katrina that pounded Louisiana. Rising sea… — Mark Powell 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
“Human existence is girt round with mystery: the narrow region of our experience is a small island in the midst of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes my life has been Odyssean - landing on strange islands of consciousness and reality and meeting very curious monsters who turn… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Cuba is actually one where I am more optimistic because of the unique nature of Cuba - 90 miles off our shore… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Social media isn't the end-all-be-all, but it offers marketers unparalleled opportunity to participate in relevant ways. It also provides a launchpad for… — Matthew Dickman Copy Share Image
Take what happened to me in Bali. I planned on going to Ubud, then met a man on an airplane who told… — Rita Gelman Copy Share Image
How sweet to move at summer's eve By Clyde's meandering stream, When Sol in joy is seen to leave The earth with… — Andrew Park Copy Share Image
An island can be dreadful for someone from outside. Everything is complete, and everyone has his obstinate, sure and self-sufficient place. Within… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“It’s said to be the same all over the world, in all seven seas. Islands are matriarchies of a kind seldom seen… — Fredrik Sjöberg Copy Share Image
Chekhov said: let's put God - and all these grand progressive ideas - to one side. Let's begin with man; let's be… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
There are spirits in Hawaii. They're very protective and very good and they watch over these islands. I must confess, they're not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
No man is an island, as they say. No. I've tried it. I've gone on retreats at various times in my life… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
The people of the Falkland Islands, like the people of the United Kingdom, are an island race. They are few in number… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The power of reading a great book is that you start thinking like the author. For those magical moments while you are… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
In truth I suspect that merely slowing down is not a very satisfying answer. What I need has less to do with… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Within evangelicalism is a distressing drift toward accepting a Christianity that does not demand a life-changing walk with God. Many evangelicals (today)… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
As ever, the original inhabitants of Turtle Island are entirely overlooked. Mysteriously, the only time indigenous people are guaranteed a mainstream Amerikkan… — Inga Muscio Copy Share Image
In our island myth this was the prescribed end of marriages like mine: the wife goes off with someone from the Cercle… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
If you live on an atoll and you get a warning by radio that a big wave is coming and everyone is… — Enele Sopoaga 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
Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Now to avoid any collision of armed forces, and perhaps the loss of life, I do this under protest and impelled by… — Liliʻuokalani 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
...Started by missionaries in 1841, Punahou Academy had grown into a prestigious prep school, an incubator for island elites...It hadn't been easy… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Both of us [me and Donald Trump] were raised to believe that to whom much is given, much will be required. And… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It is in fact necessary to reduce CO2 emissions. There is no reason why we shouldn't spend our vacations on (the North… — Hans von Storch Copy Share Image
Mystery is an inescapable ingredient of mathematics. Mathematics is full of unanswered questions, which far outnumber known theorems and results. It's the… — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on; but we are perfide Albion, the island of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image