Islands Quotes · Page 10

What luxury would I take to a desert island? A mirror. It's true. I'd miss me.

— Simon Cowell

When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.

— Hilary Mantel

“You don’t rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own…

— V.T. Davy

We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

— Herodotus

Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island

— Neil Gaiman

I cannot live on an island of prosperity when I'm surrounded by a sea of misery.

— Ayrton Senna

A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry-that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three Mile Island.

— Johnny Carson

My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.

— Cameron Mackintosh

That summer we had been absolutely alone, together, even when people were around, the only inhabitants of the kind of floating island…

— Robert Penn Warren

I loved you way before you ever had a chance to put a spell on me. I loved you at 'I've never…

— Meg Cabot

I want to see Haiti do better. We have the sun everywhere: that's a big asset. We have wonderful coasts, beautiful islands,…

— Laurent Lamothe

If you are in a remote desert island, let your best hope be your own efforts to build a ship instead of…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Unfortunately these are not isolated incidents, and the people of Reunion are the first to be horrified by this despicable barbarity which…

— Brigitte Bardot

“Technology has transformed the world into a global village. And communities, families, friends, etc., into local islands.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Throughout history, men have tried to play God by moving rabbits, goats, sparrows, mongooses, and a hundred other species to oceanic islands…

— Victor Blanchard Scheffer

I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any dialects, and yeah, it's very complex.…

— Seth MacFarlane

Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. Sometimes you've got…

— Julie Powell

An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a…

— Henry David Thoreau

“No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in…

— Neil Gaiman

Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the…

— Richard Louv

Getting to do what I think was my fifth BBC drama with Nikki Amuka-Bird - we've done 'Shoot The Messenger,' 'Five Days,'…

— David Oyelowo

Every one must be struck with astonishment, when he first beholds one of these vast rings of coral-rock, often many leagues in…

— Charles Darwin

Still Caine hesitated. A big, warm bed. A beautiful girl to share it with. Food. Water. Everything he needed, just a few…

— Anonymous

For William Cecil and others in Elizabeth's Council, whose sense of Catholic conspiracy and threat governed their political thinking, England's security lay…

— Susan Brigden

Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.

— Mason Cooley

That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it.

— Kathy Griffin

Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?

— Thomas Sowell

Sailing to an island unknown Failing to find your way home you walk under a sea leagues beneath us

— Maggie Stiefvater

One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

— Richard Francis Burton

There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station.

— Peter Hain

The fact is, we are not islands and we are far more connected than we know

— Anonymous

And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at…

— Laurie Anderson

Although no man is an island, you can make quite an effective raft out of six.

— Simon Munnery

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

— William Golding

I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.

— Gina Gershon

I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.

— Lincoln Chafee

Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island.

— Napoleon Hill