You were a stone wall, a fort in high, unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach. — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers…Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island. — William Golding Copy Share Image
Every great group is an island... but an island with a bridge to the mainland. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne. — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
When I was Governor of Massachusetts, we worked to get Sable Island gas into New England. — Paul Cellucci Copy Share Image
Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that. — Patrick McGoohan Copy Share Image
Vodka! That's a child's drink, why am I drinking this stupid drink, oh and why am I on a traffic island? — Dylan Moran 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
The Senkaku islands are inherently Japanese territory. I want to show my strong determination to prevent this from changing. — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
“Countless tales and songs had been written about the cliffs of Iro and Nane: they'd been painted by two lovers, one who… — Sarah Beth Durst Copy Share Image
Long Island always seems to be the hardest place for some reason. There are always excuses. People will say, "Well, there's a… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
This is a huge problem. If we don't deal with this within just a few years, you will have island nations flooded;… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
MARG: You are so close.STEN: To whom? Margravine, not even to himself. This place, this island: all his life he's done nothing… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
[Pope Francis] continued to focus on migrants. He visited the Greek island of Lesbos, which was the front line of the European… — Sylvia Poggioli Copy Share Image
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
Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Island’s flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence is the… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island! — Donald L. Carcieri Copy Share Image
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I rented an island for Kanye West birthday. A far, far away place where no one can find us. — Kim Kardashian Copy Share Image
I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to… — Edie Falco Copy Share Image
We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards. — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
[I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.' — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska. — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet. — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
Larry Jones with Feed the Children and I are partnering in New York and going into Rikers Island. — Paula White Copy Share Image
If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I’d need: food, shelter, and a grip. — George C. Scott Copy Share Image
Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
This is only a small part of the totality. From this island earth we see only a fragment of creation and its… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image