Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me. — Gerry Cooney Copy Share Image
When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite. — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
Every great group is an island... but an island with a bridge to the mainland. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne. — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most. — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
I graduated from CUNY College of Staten Island with a 3.9 GPA in three and a half years. — Vinny Guadagnino Copy Share Image
“She has mischievious moments when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island...” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I love living my life in flip-flops. I met a guy in the islands a while ago who told me he hadn't… — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
Below me Rontu was running along the cliffs barking at the screaming gulls. Pelicans were chattering as they finished the blue water.… — Scott O'Dell Copy Share Image
Giordino...simply sighed in resignation. "Who else," he asked no one in particular, "but Dirk Pitt could tramp off into a blizzard on… — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
You can make all the changes to the island of the tonal you want, you can take excursions into the nagual, but… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of… — David McCord Copy Share Image
When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets. We know Mitt Romney never met… — Anonymous 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
On the geological time scale, a human lifetime is reduced to a brevity that is too inhibiting to think about deep time.… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
O ye by wandering tempest sown 'Neath every alien star, Forget not whence the breath was blown That wafted you afar! For… — William Watson Copy Share Image
Lettering is a precise art and strictly subject to tradition. The 'New Art ' notion that you can make letters whatever shapes… — Stanley Morison 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
