Islands Quotes · Page 5

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

— Yancy Butler

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

— Kwame Kilpatrick

the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands.

— Nicholas Lea

My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.

— Jason Statham

When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.'

— Leos Carax

My great strength is knowing who I am and where I come from - my island.

— Oscar de la Renta

The truth is, until you know any different, the island is enough. Actually, I know different. And it's still enough.

— Maggie Stiefvater

I wanted people to believe that there could still be this little undiscovered piece of the world that survives still on Skull…

— Peter Jackson

And I really wanted a driver's license. I was 43, had my learner's permit and had failed the test once already -…

— Suzanne Vega

If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty,…

— Daniela Pestova

You have an utterly sincere glance when you look around after you are shipwrecked. You weep a long time on an island…

— Robert Bly

Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up…

— Diane Johnson

I'm a little Jewish girl from Long Island, but when I listened to Tina Turner, I pictured myself in a mini-dress, dancing…

— Winnie Holzman

Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.

— David Quammen

Say, Cuttino. What are those Godawful clothes you're wearing? Man, this ain't Rhode Island anymore. You're in the NBA. The girls have…

— Charles Barkley

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If…

— John Donne

“The physique of a Messiah. But too clever to believe in God or be convinced of his own mission. And too sensitive,…

— Aldous Huxley

Now then, Pooh," said Christopher Robin, "where's your boat?" "I ought to say," explained Pooh as they walked down to the shore…

— Anonymous

The more expensive and/or exclusive a sport, the whiter it tends to be: the fact almost has the force of a law.…

— Martin Jacques

Although you may not stumble across a Martian in the garden, you might stumble across yourself. The day that happens, you'll probably…

— Jostein Gaarder

For those struggling in midstream, in great fear of the flood, of growing old and of dying for all those I say,…

— Gautama Buddha

I'm stuck somewhere a small island in the middle of the Atlantic where I'm alone. Because in France, they're like, 'No, you're…

— Louis Leterrier

Women are exciting for this one reason - it is the secret of women's allure - women enjoy submission, being bound. This…

— William Moulton Marston

“The Kiril Islands had changed hands more times than a good coin in a whorehouse.”

— Jaida Jones

The sea which we think of separating the two island actually joins them.

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island.

— Cassandra Clare

All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.

— Charles Stross

Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert.

— Michael Palin

I discovered Musha Cay and the islands around it in the Exumas.

— David Copperfield

[I've worked as a guard at Rikers Island] from 1988 to 1990.

— Sharon Jones

I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me.

— Gerry Cooney

When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite.

— Anton Szandor LaVey

1 Universe,9 Plants, 204 Countries,809 Islands,7 Seas, And I Had The Privilege To Meet You..!

— Anonymous

Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

— Anne Lamott

My friend told me he was going to a fancy-dress party as an Italian island. I said: 'Don’t be Sicily’.

— Tim Vine

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

— Walt Disney

There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.

— Billy Joel