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Island Quotes by Daniel Handler
- A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding…
- One of the world's most tiresome questions is what object one would bring to a desert island,because people always answer "a deck of cards" or…
- But the law is an odd thing. For instance, one country in Europe has a law that requires all its bakers to sell bread at…
- My chauffer once told me that I would feel better in the morning, but when I woke up the two of us were still on…
More Island Quotes
- Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead… — Gerry Adams
- The isolation spins its mysterious cocoon, focusing the mind on one place, one time, one rhythm - the turning of the light.… — M. L. Stedman
- This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and… — Aneurin Bevan
- It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad. — David R. Brower
- I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any… — Francesca Annis
- The air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe, and so everyone who breathes it becomes free. Everyone who… — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
- Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine… — Benjamin Disraeli
- Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to… — Winston Churchill