Islands Quotes · Page 9

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things...

— Agatha Christie

It'll be a great day when the seniors have all the baseball caps they need and the Pentagon bombs Gilligan's Island.

— Jesse Jackson

And I've shot in Prince Edward Island winters, I mean, I've shot in some intense, intense temperatures.

— Ellen Page

I don't want to be the only survivor on the island with no smoke.

— Sean Price

In terms of the fantasy wedding thing, I can kind of cross off the island beach thing. Maybe at sunset or something.

— Mandy Moore

In the spring or summer, I like going to the Hamptons or Fire Island. Anywhere I can hear waves, I'm there.

— Peter Som

We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.

— William James

[Long Island] is buoyant, it's on the outskirts of Manhattan, and so they have access to phenomenal restaurants.

— Gordon Ramsay

People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the…

— Joanna Newsom

Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of…

— Albert Camus

“So you can imagine what happens when a mainland species gets introduced to an island. It would be like introducing Al Capone,…

— Douglas Adams

A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.

— John Cowper Powys

I was commuting three to four hours a day, I had jobs for much of it. But I was always involved in…

— Jon Gordon

Go to the east shore of any of the Hawaiian Islands, and that's a pretty big lesson on how much plastic is…

— Jack Johnson

The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.

— William Arthur Ward

He looked like someone with a steerage ticket on the titanic. Somebody who'd be standing in line at Ellis Island. Undiluted and…

— Rainbow Rowell

Most people, it seems, think that Robinson Crusoe when he landed on his Island had nothing to keep him from starvation or…

— Will Cuppy

The final cover for 'Heroes Are My Weakness' feels exactly right. It reflects the cold, wintry setting of an isolated island off…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Not that I was incapable of friendship. 'Don't be shy', the teachers coaxed. I was not shy, only extremely choosy. And Denise…

— Anneli Rufus

In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no business, organization, government…

— Don Tapscott

I can't remember exactly the first thing I wrote, but one of the stories, was about a pilot whose plane crashed on…

— Tom Robbins

If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we…

— Steven Weinberg

The last two days of shooting ('Harper's Island') was probably the most hardcore, the coldest anyone has ever been. It was like…

— Elaine Cassidy

“The radiant sun draws visitors from the cold climes of Scandinavia, Britain, and Germany, and lively tavernas and discotheques entice vacationers from…

— Laura Brooks

Nervous? He's tighter than Pat Buchanan's sphincter muscle at a 4th of July soiree on Fire Island.

— Dennis Miller

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.

— Ezra Stiles

The undersea world surrounding Green Island looks just like a water fairyland.

— Mehgan Heaney-Grier

Women are like those blinkin' little Greek islands, places to call at but not to stay.

— Stacy Aumonier

No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.

— Chester W. Nimitz

Who gives an island as a gift? I frowned. I hadn’t realized Edward’s extreme generosity was a learned behavior. Bella

— Stephenie Meyer

England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

— Katherine Mansfield

I've always felt England was a great place for a comic to work. It's an island and the audience can't run very…

— Bob Hope

The odd thing about Cripple of Inishmaan is its never actually been performed on the island.

— Garry Hynes

I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.

— Fanny Kemble

When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.

— Roddy Doyle

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

— Paul Theroux

204 countries, 809 islands, 7 seas and yet I can't find a decent relationship.

— Anonymous

In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves.

— James Theodore Bent

I love musical theatre and my dream is to do Once On This Island.

— Syesha Mercado

Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.

— Paul McCartney