Islands Quotes · Page 37

Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows…

— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

I did a lot of crazy gigs man. I hosted a Jack and Jill strip club in Woonsocket Rhode Island which is…

— Joe Rogan

I know I'm not very popular on Long Island. I don't know who's less popular, me or Joey Buttafuoco.

— Don Maloney

When you're from the islands, that's that pride.

— Deandre Ayton

Willows whiten, aspens quiver, little breezes dusk and shiver, thro' the wave that runs forever by the island in the river, flowing…

— Anonymous

In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have…

— A. J. Liebling

I know that the United Kingdom is sometimes seen as an argumentative and rather strong-minded member of the family of European nations.…

— David Cameron

Island Records used what we built and tried to cash in on it which is so annoying. So it came time to…

— Jess Margera

Interestingly enough after diving to 235 feet in Saba, I visited the Virgin Islands. There, as a pure Karmic coincidence, I met…

— Frederick Lenz

You might have mentioned this to me Molly,” said Leonard. “The fact that there are hostile natives on the island.” “I forgot,”…

— Dave Barry

I love musical theatre and my dream is to do Once On This Island.

— Syesha Mercado

For those struggling in midstream, in great fear of the flood, of growing old and of dying for all those I say,…

— Gautama Buddha

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

— Spike Lee

Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can…

— Libba Bray

At school, if I was ever bored in class, I would draw maps of islands or detailed interior of boats or lists…

— Michelle Magorian

Mainly I've been back to my books and writings and being nice and quiet and lazy. As I'm writing this, the radio…

— Jack Kerouac

It seems to me,' said Magid finally, as the moon became clearer than the sun, 'that you have tried to love a…

— Zadie Smith

By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made! What an enterprise of nature thus to lay the foundations of…

— Henry David Thoreau

For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse.

— William Golding

The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.

— Jack Adams

The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

Put your hand on your heart to keep it from flying off to the lovely magical literary island Mary Ann Shaffer and…

— Kris Radish

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life-raft and a festival. They are…

— Caitlin Moran

The Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] also highlighted the need to address general humanitarian issues. We already mentioned one of these issues: visa-free…

— Vladimir Putin

Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

— Lawrence Clark Powell