In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Islands are going to suffer from climate change in very, very difficult ways. And it's not just Pacific islands. It's not just… — Brian Schatz Copy Share Image
Because I am so intensely identified with opinion and analysis and contextualization, I think I just need, for my own psychological benefit,… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the night, I've shrunk and everyone else on the island has grown. They're all nine feet tall and men and I'm… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about… — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were… — Benicio Del Toro Copy Share Image
I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
“A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Through it all, this wild life on and off the road , through Jordanian deserts , Spanish islands, German prisons, Caribbean tax… — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
The savage, rocky shores of Christmas Island, 200 miles south of Java, in the Indian Ocean. It's November, the moon is in… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Put any two people together and each will seek ways of feeling superior to the other. If a ship went down in… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these,… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
I go to Florida sometimes for vacation. I actually really like Florida. It's a weird place, it's surreal. It's so close, but… — Jemima Kirke Copy Share Image
I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
What's my weirdest adventure? Yikes, there've been so very many. Perhaps the pig+vegetable+Taiwanese-army-guys boat ride to the island off the coast of… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe,… — Charles Sturt Copy Share Image
Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island,… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
I think honestly when I was younger I use to love going to carnivals in Long Island. I use to love carnival… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
Most of the volcanoes are pretty far away. You have to go to, God knows, Alaska. Or you have to go to… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
On the periscope . . . . What a beautiful view. Cloud cover over Florida - three to four tenths near the… — Alan Shepard Copy Share Image
I come from a very warm island, where colors are very important, very vibrant, and obviously the color has been an influence… — Oscar de la Renta Copy Share Image
The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand. — Chester A. Arthur Copy Share Image
A university should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher levels of knowledge without sharing any of this knowledge… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose… — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
the wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,'… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
That's such a great thing about New York, after growing up in a place and being there for twenty plus years, there's… — Steven Strait Copy Share Image
I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan's Island, walking the… — Dorothea Benton Frank Copy Share Image
For some reason I only crave fruit when I'm in a tropical place - if it's really hot in the summer or… — Carmen Electra Copy Share Image
The islands above the falls are covered with foliage as beautiful as can be seen anywhere. Viewed from the mass of rock… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
Island of Hispaniola once so populous (having a population that I estimated to be more than three million), has now a population… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
The Maldives, a string of islands off the coast of India whose highest point above sea level is eight feet, may be… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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