In mysteries what we know, and our realization of what we do not know, proceed together; the larger the island of knowledge,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Long Island always seems to be the hardest place for some reason. There are always excuses. People will say, "Well, there's a… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I am haunted by numberless islands, many a Danaan shore, Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Before September 11, we were fighting terrorism in our southwestern Philippines, and it was a lonely fight. However, we were able to… — Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Copy Share Image
There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York,… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
There used to be this guy called Vinny who worked on the floor of the stock exchange, said one big investor who… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Depending on where you live, your threat is much different from the other person. If you ask a New Yorker today, because… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
In midmost of the stream, embraced in the weir's shimmering arm-spread, a small island lay anchored, fringed close with willow and silver… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
I have hardly begun to live on Staten Island yet; but, like the man who, when forbidden to tread on English ground,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
“Human existence is girt round with mystery: the narrow region of our experience is a small island in the midst of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Much of the attention on oceans has portrayed oceans as a villain. Warm water strengthened Hurricane Katrina that pounded Louisiana. Rising sea… — Mark Powell Copy Share Image
One of the world's most tiresome questions is what object one would bring to a desert island,because people always answer "a deck… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
South America had been an island continent, far bigger and far more diverse than Australia, for tens of millions of years before… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
We're not going to beat Barack Obama with some guy who has Swiss bank accounts, Cayman Island accounts, owns shares of Goldman… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
Richard Price, who has made a fortune writing fake ghetto books, says he takes a cab into the ghetto, transcribes Black speech… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I mean, we were hearing music all the way through the islands. You know, we, when we visit the islands, of course… — John Musker Copy Share Image
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Not a lot of attention has been paid to the Asian tiger mosquito, which is another species which we believe can also… — Laura Harrington Copy Share Image
I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
But the law is an odd thing. For instance, one country in Europe has a law that requires all its bakers to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts… — Amy Goodman Copy Share Image
Put your hand on your heart to keep it from flying off to the lovely magical literary island Mary Ann Shaffer and… — Kris Radish Copy Share Image
“At times, working in big cities far from nature, I have been sick with nesomania, and I think the reason is this:… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I did martial arts because boxing wasn't really available on Long Island. I think now kids are… — Chris Algieri Copy Share Image
With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune,… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
As much as I am a huge soccer fan, music just kills it when it comes to importance. I could go to… — Joe Elliott Copy Share Image
The evidence at present available points strongly to the conclusion that the spirals are individual galaxies, or island universes, comparable with our… — Heber Doust Curtis Copy Share Image
Though the island of Great Britain exhibits but a small spot upon the map of the globe, it makes a splendid appearance… — John Newton Copy Share Image
It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I used to come out here every Fourth of July as a child to picnic and to swim on the island, to… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Here ends the story of a ship, but there will always be other ships, for we are an island race. Through all… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
So death obscures your gentle form, So memory strives to make the darkness bright; And, in that heap of rocks, your body… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
