Islands Quotes · Page 7

I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.

— Elizabeth Olsen

“We are but two islands. At times we may touch, but ever does the current flow between us.”

— Nicholas John Greenfield

Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.

— Max Beerbohm

Bear Island knows no king but the King in the North, whose name is STARK.

— Anonymous

Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.

— Paul Mazursky

I just remembered when I was an adolescent girl wanting to leave my island and find my calling.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind.

— Bob Denver

Treefingers is important, it's the point in which our protagonist crosses the icy tundra that is how to disappear completely to reach…

— Thom Yorke

I planned the exhibition so that it becomes a story where the viewer travels through these islands [of ideas]. Whether the contents…

— Yasumasa Morimura

I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold,…

— Pat Conroy

I miss the archipelago, the islands outside of Stockholm, the most. That's where I spent my summers as a kid. Going on…

— Elsa Hosk

Corporations are not going to stash their money in the Cayman Islands. We are going to reinvest in America, create jobs, make…

— Bernie Sanders

When you're in [ Bahamas], it feels like a bunch of islands, with keys and things like that. It's an existential archipelago.…

— Tavares Strachan

The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties…

— Bruno Latour

'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the…

— Jason Scott Lee

Faced with the immensity of the universe, Job realized that there are limits to man's rationalizing, that we cannot find where the…

— Ralph Washington Sockman

I wanted to make a massive work so as soon as Nick Mitzevich invited me I said yes straight away and began…

— Ben Quilty

Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York…

— Hope Davis

I have never seen the sea quiet round Treasure Island. The sun might blaze overhead, the air be without a breath, the…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Why slum it where people were burdened by yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that? By history? Here, on…

— Julian Barnes

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island…

— Henry David Thoreau

It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the…

— Candace Bushnell

Some of the memories were not clear---dim human memories, seen through weak eyes and heard through weak ears: the first time I'd…

— Stephenie Meyer

I grew up in Hawaii and I think those islands are some of the most amazing places on the planet.

— Mateus Ward

Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called 'Someday I'll.'

— Denis Waitley

I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.

— Richard Stallman

... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Planet Earth is our shared island, let us join forces to protect it

— Ban Ki-moon

The sky was as blue as a stupid postcard, and the islands were as green as islands.

— Anonymous

A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable

— Thabo Mbeki

I know I'm not very popular on Long Island. I don't know who's less popular, me or Joey Buttafuoco.

— Don Maloney

Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

— Luke Rhinehart

My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.

— Ricky Jay

The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.

— Natalie Dormer

Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.

— Jeanette Winterson

An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.

— Muhammad Yunus

The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.

— Elizabeth George

The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.

— Don Rickles

I love the Lonely Island. I wish there was more Lonely Island movies.

— Judd Apatow