Hawai'i is not truly the idyllic paradise of popular songs--islands of love and tranquility, where nothing bad ever happens. It was and… — Alan Brennert Copy Share Image
I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called… — William Bell Copy Share Image
I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters - people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them -… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
As known unknowns become known; unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Interestingly enough after diving to 235 feet in Saba, I visited the Virgin Islands. There, as a pure Karmic coincidence, I met… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a… — Jack Adams Copy Share Image
Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That's basically what we have been doing. We're just a small country of… — Tobias Lindholm Copy Share Image
I've been dying to go to India, especially to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. I've also heard Bollywood town's a lot of… — Kevin Dillon Copy Share Image
We’re not dead yet.” – Sundown “Yet is the operative word. If that’s all that’s in the way, I’ll kill you and… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
America, so far as her physical history is concerned, has been falsely denominated the New World. Hers was the first dry land… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present,… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
If we assiduously cultivate our powers of exaggeration, perhaps we, too, shall obtain the Paradise of Liars. And there Raphael shall paint… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget… — Jennifer Armstrong Copy Share Image
In the steel-and-glass society that we live in, the value system would be that the lawyer, with the Mercedes and the fine… — Scott Raab Copy Share Image
The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I know that most domesticated animals aren't indigenous to this country. So guess what, cat? You can beat it. Go back to… — Arj Barker Copy Share Image
I majored in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, although I never had any intention of being an illustrator and… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
I did a lot of crazy gigs man. I hosted a Jack and Jill strip club in Woonsocket Rhode Island which is… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
Well managed and healthy oceans are vital to the survival of small island states, such as the Maldives. This important book shows… — Mohamed Nasheed Copy Share Image
At school, if I was ever bored in class, I would draw maps of islands or detailed interior of boats or lists… — Michelle Magorian Copy Share Image
And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You know, growing up, I lived in a neighborhood in Long Island where there was basically one black family. And I remember… — Lorraine Bracco Copy Share Image
Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
It's strange, because Long Island is still New York, but the farther you go out on Long Island, the more creepy it… — David Krumholtz Copy Share Image
Younger Cuban Americans who have decided to go to the island always come back telling me "that isn't the country my grandparents… — Mark Falcoff Copy Share Image
Pamalican Island is a wonderful story told with the sparkle of fun and a true understanding of the magic of childhood. A… — Raffaella Barker Copy Share Image
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest... But the trees also commingle their… — William James Copy Share Image
The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world, — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it,… — Christopher Atkins Copy Share Image
This world of sense, built by the imagination--how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life,… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Compared to overdeveloped islands like Nassau, Bimini has kept its original charm. Walk the streets to see colorfully painted houses, funky shops,… — Amanda Hearst Copy Share Image
Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
The Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] also highlighted the need to address general humanitarian issues. We already mentioned one of these issues: visa-free… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
My home kitchen is airy, with a gas stove, a stainless-steel island table in the center and granite countertops. It's very modest… — Grant Achatz Copy Share Image
When the ship is sinking and you're forced to choose sides, the new solution is to jump from island to island to… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
The piebald mare paws at the sand; I see her digging out of the corner of my eye and hear her grinding… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Theseus made unscrupulous use of Ariadne (whom he left on an island where Bacchus later found her-I always think that really meant… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
Begin with loss and see how the world contradicts you, how the horizon implies that beyond it the water is not empty… — Lynn Emanuel Copy Share Image
Aside from its parks and nature areas, Singapore is intensively developed, and due to the shortage of land, is building up, down… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image