There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
I love the Bahamas, and I used to go there all the time with my friend who passed away, Henry. And I… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
On Sunday, the president flies to the Azores islands to attend a summit with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spanish Prime… — Craig Kilborn Copy Share Image
There is a story, no doubt apocryphal, that gamers at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, have many times replayed… — Robert Cowley Copy Share Image
Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations. — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
the way with Ireland is that no sooner do you get away from her than the golden mists begin to close about… — Katharine Tynan Copy Share Image
In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe---a planet that is not too hot and not… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
But even if we were to disappear, people would still be divided into people and Others. No matter how those Others were… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
Everyone asks about gold. This is the irony: just as Jim Grant tells us (correctly) that we all have faith-based paper currencies… — Jeremy Grantham 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
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
Public school teachers in Long Island, New York, saved my life in the '70s. They were involved and invested and helpful. One… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of… — Yuri Gagarin Copy Share Image
We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We’re all trying to get to the same island, whether you swim, fly, surf, or skydive in, it doesn’t matter. What matters… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there… — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
Yeah? Rock 'n' Roll is fast, you know. If all goes according to plan I could be in rehab next thursday. Tuesday… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when I'm on the boat. You never separate work from… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite… — Alan Brennert Copy Share Image
“Word has traveled quickly that just because you're on island doesn't mean you have to be stranded---as long as you have cash.” — Doug Cooper Copy Share Image
I had dreamed of visiting Bali for many years and because I had an extended family of Balinese friends in Los Angeles,… — Carolyn Murphy Copy Share Image
Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbor and… — Tammin Sursok Copy Share Image
I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are actors.' I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from… — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky;… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of… — Giovanni Ruffini Copy Share Image
In my own creations, the earliest influence came from the ancient civilisations of Egypt, China, Africa and Persia. In fact, one of… — Mary McFadden Copy Share Image
Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake... No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
I don't know the numbers, but roughly half of the people who came through Ellis Island returned home. They came here to… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of… — Tim Bishop Copy Share Image
It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We just sat there and watched the plane pass the island, and it never came back," he said. "I could see it… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true. — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
Traveling in Europe made me understand that America has an island mentality: No one exists except us. There's a whole other world… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image