Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison?… — Rush Limbaugh 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
We just did a show in Providence, Rhode Island, and we got three puppy shots before we even got on the air,… — Jerry Lawler Copy Share Image
I'd left Hawaii twice in my life, so I'd been on an island my whole life. I had no clue. I didn't… — Maggie Q Copy Share Image
The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy. I keep myself surrounded by them as soon as they start coming to the island… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
It was true what Jim said, this wasn’t the end but the beginning. But the wars would end one day and Jim… — Jamie O'Neill Copy Share Image
I greatly enjoyed the Hawaiian Islands. They are a real little paradise in spite of the influx of Americans who have made… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
National law has no place in cyberlaw. Where is cyberspace? If you don't like banking laws in the United States, set up… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Morris was not the type to offer a hug or even hold your hand. But there was something in his quiet indignation… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I remember the Chillicothe ballplayers grappling the Long Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game ended by darkness. And the shoulders of… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Puerto Rico] losing not just taxpayers, but professionals, people who are vital to their communities. I don't think that is good. So… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be a writer. Where I came from, no one was a writer. I came from Long Island,… — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
Somehow, the love of the islands, like the love of a woman, just happens. One cannot determine in advance to love a… — Jack London Copy Share Image
I have a cartoon where the guy is pretty much, he's a regular-sized guy, but he's the size of the island. He's… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
“Islands, being harder to get to, naturally separated some of the wheat from the chaff, which was the entire philosophy behind places… — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I was born in a small clapboard house on an island, but I also have certain privileges that I didn't have when… — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island. — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As with Three Mile Island, the hysteria of the media and the political class over the Deepwater spill is likely to lead… — Steven F. Hayward Copy Share Image
The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the… — R. Lee Ermey Copy Share Image
Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands.… — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Tortoises can survive for weeks without food or water, easily long enough to float in the Humboldt Current from South America to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I don't believe that the solutions in society will come from the left or the right or the north or the south.… — Karl-Henrik Robert Copy Share Image
[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me when I was growing up, some of the happiest times were when we went to a small island called Nantucket… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
The secret of our success on planet Earth is space. Lots of it. Our solar system is a tiny island of activity… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
I cannot deny that on a breezy summer's day, Fishers Island is one of the most idyllic places possible for a round… — Tom Doak Copy Share Image
Bod said, 'I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I love Topsail Island, which my grandparents helped settle in 1950, despite the racial tensions. I wanted to immortalize my deep connection… — Rolonda Watts Copy Share Image
Each person is an island unto himself, in a very real sense; and he can only build bridges to other islands if… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image