Islands Quotes · Page 12

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

Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

When I was Governor of Massachusetts, we worked to get Sable Island gas into New England.

— Paul Cellucci

Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.

— Gautama Buddha

Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day.

— Theo Rossi

There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and…

— Eric Weiner

I went on Love Island thinking I was quite headstrong but it turned out I was quite emotional.

— Sophie Anderton

It's amazing. Long Island, I don't know really. It's quite a fascinating area.

— Gordon Ramsay

You'll find that you will be able to reorder the island of your tonal so that it's in good shape - logical,…

— Frederick Lenz

We can safely make one prophecy: whatever the outcome of this war, the British Empire is at an end. It has been…

— Adolf Hitler

All problems have to be solved eventually by ONESELF, and that's where all your lovely John Donne stuff turns out to be…

— Kenneth Williams

A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message.…

— Bertrand Piccard

I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to…

— Glenn Gould

I love living my life in flip-flops. I met a guy in the islands a while ago who told me he hadn't…

— Kenny Chesney

Below me Rontu was running along the cliffs barking at the screaming gulls. Pelicans were chattering as they finished the blue water.…

— Scott O'Dell

We had an abundance of mangoes, papaias and bananas here, but the pride of the islands, the most delicious fruit known to…

— Mark Twain

I can't really believe that it's over. "I'll speak for her." Every face turns to where Sean Kendrick stands a little apart…

— Maggie Stiefvater

The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't…

— Carol Moseley Braun

There are big surfing communities in every country with an ocean coast that I know in Central and South America. Same with…

— William Finnegan

Cole grasped a handful of vials and syringes with one hand and dumped them on the island in front of me. They…

— Maggie Stiefvater

As I experienced life on the island, without electricity, plumbing or telephone, I thought it was important to show that people can…

— Alix Kates Shulman

The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific…

— Stephen Leacock

I judge property myself by its net earning power; that is the only rule I have been able to get… This whole…

— Jay Gould

Dreams were the worst. Of course I dreamed of food and love, but they were pleasant rather than otherwise. But then I'd…

— Elizabeth Bishop

I met [my wife Margot] on Fire Island when I had a house there many years ago.

— Nat Hentoff

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

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

I don't want to be an island. I want to be more of a tourist attraction. You stop here, I take your…

— Richard Sherman

I want people to think of Hawaii and think of palm trees and magical islands and Bruno Mars.

— Bruno Mars

We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

— William James

The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.

— Riccardo Muti

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.

— Winston Churchill

We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island.

— Oliver Kahn

I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible.

— Jamaica Kincaid

Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain.

— Tom Kettle

From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.

— Robert Browning

We are so many and many within themselves travel to far islands but no one asks for their story.

— Denise Levertov

However, the 1956 agreement refers to two islands while the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] is talking about four islands.

— Vladimir Putin

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

— John Millington Synge

I have a home in Puerto Rico, and I see what is happening on the islands there.

— Danielle Colby

My friend told me he was going to a fancy dress party as an Italian island. I said to him, ‘Don’t be…

— Tim Vine