Islands Quotes · Page 4

New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'

— Jonah Hill

Islands are natural workshops of evolution.

— Richard Dawkins

When you're from the islands, that's that pride.

— Deandre Ayton

“To search is more blessed than to find, Gissler thinks.”

— Judith Schalansky

Seattle is this curious liberal island.

— Jonathan Raban

The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers…Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.

— William Golding

You were a stone wall, a fort in high, unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach.

— Deb Caletti

If I was on an island, just for melody, I would take albums by the Stones, AC/DC and the Beach Boys' Smiley…

— Steven Tyler

Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.

— Anonymous

I know that not many people can go to the Marshall Islands. It is really one of the most remote places on…

— Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

Writes have an island, a center of refuge, within themselves. It is the mind's anchorage, the soul's Great Good Place.

— Wright Morris

Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed.

— Ru Freeman

My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no…

— Alexa Ray Joel

In the past, Ive visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states…

— Pico Iyer

I go down to Newport and Huntington a lot. It's more crowded than where I grew up on Phillip Island, but I…

— Liam Hemsworth

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own…

— Ayn Rand

As the show's executive producer, I envisioned something akin to "Gilligan's Island" meets Lord of the Flies meets Ten Little Indians mets…

— Mark Burnett

Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map;…

— Herman Melville

I identify with my culture, but I am happy to be living on a tolerant, intellectual island where I can deal with…

— Orhan Pamuk

You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it…

— Anna Friel

Same way I have my entire life. Keep my family and friends close. My Latino friends close. I visit the island [Puerto…

— Sonia Sotomayor

Off they go on this sort of camping trip to Iwo Jima, where they're taken around and shown where all the battles…

— P. J. O'Rourke

For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits -…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It was a subject [ volcanoes] that was dormant in me for a long time and it popped up 40 years ago…

— Werner Herzog

Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and…

— Carl Jung

Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past…

— Roberto Bolano

Even before 2007, this half of a small island was the richest football country on earth. In 2005-2006 the Premiership's total revenue…

— Simon Kuper

I think it's time we had a President who will provide the only real economic security: good jobs. A President who will…

— John F. Kerry

Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of…

— Shashi Tharoor

The Eightfold Path is ordering the island of the tonal completely.

— Frederick Lenz

I had to say no to 'Fantasy Island' back when I was doing 'Bosom Buddies.'

— Tom Hanks

Personality is a person among persons. There is no personality of one man on a desert island.

— Kwame Kilpatrick

My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.

— Yancy Butler

I took my son to Coney island, I said "wanna go in the crazy house?", he said "save your money we'll be…

— Rodney Dangerfield

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Park hill staten island seal, rock the reel to reel we high hills deep

— Cappadonna

“What you see is what you get. The island is imaginative enough. Creativity don’t need to be wasted on naming things.”

— Doug Cooper

Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything...

— Clive Barker

I don't feel like I need to be on an island to be enjoying myself and relaxing.

— Jon M. Chu

Thus did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.

— Anonymous