There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune,… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Cayman Islands. I didn't play video games or watch TV. I would basically come home from school,… — Armie Hammer Copy Share Image
So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the… — Corey Ford Copy Share Image
I felt when I was elected that the most important task on this island [Ireland] was to extend the hand of friendship… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than that. They just were. Adult stories… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation. — David Quammen Copy Share Image
That's where the economy is going. It went somewhere. Just not to America. And the money made? That went to the Cayman… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island. — Etty Hillesum 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
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
I think one of the thing that makes a Kubrick film a great experience is the fact that he bends reality to… — Barry Ptolemy Copy Share Image
Target launch date for Falcon I maiden flight is Halloween(October 31) from our island launch complex in the Kwajalein Atoll. For potential… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
When I met my first savant in 1962, I was impressed by the abilities in these youngsters who had severe disabilities. They… — Darold Treffert 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
I read ' Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were.… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
COULD I PASS A WEEK IN THE INSANE WARD AT BLACKWELL'S ISLAND? I SAID I COULD AND I WOULD. AND I DID. — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
nights and days came and passed and summer and winter and the sun and the wind and the rain. and it was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I planned the exhibition so that it becomes a story where the viewer travels through these islands [of ideas]. Whether the contents… — Yasumasa Morimura 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
In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
