Desert Island Quotes

37 quotes by 35 authors

Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor shelter… — Henry Vollam Morton
You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island… — Ayn Rand
If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things Iâ€™d need: food, shelter, and a grip. — George C. Scott
Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a single second.… — Andy Gibb
All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust? — Thomas Sowell
Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been telling yourself about… — Lawrence Block
You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that. — Patrick McGoohan
Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint. — Max Beerbohm
If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island. — Nathaniel Branden
Put any two people together and each will seek ways of feeling superior to the other. If a ship went down in the Pacific and… — Michael Foley
For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet. — Peter Wessel Zapffe
Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life. — Ayn Rand
You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go… — William S. Burroughs
You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go… — Anna Friel
Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island. — Etty Hillesum
Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your movies, you'd choose… — Cory Doctorow
Not to leave planet Earth would be like castaways on a desert island not trying to escape...Sending humans to other planets ... will shape the… — Stephen Hawking
I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the… — Glenn Gould
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being. — Daniel Dennett
Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics. — Mason Cooley

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